Chapter 973: Key equipment

Monday, September 23, 1985, at nine o'clock in the morning.
New York, Wall Street, major financial trading markets opened.
At the beginning, the vast majority of people were still in a state of hesitation. They held a wait-and-see attitude on whether the contents and measures of the Plaza Agreement reached the day before could be fully implemented by governments of various countries. Found something wrong.
The Central Banks of West Hans, Britain, Japan, Gaul and the United States, including the United States, are all selling US dollars to the market at the same time!
This discovery immediately made the market restless, and every trader rushed to his position in an emergency, and could no longer hesitate, because every second of hesitation meant that the dollar in his hand was depreciating!
In the next moment, a huge amount of selling will flood in, and people can’t wait to exchange their holdings of US dollars for gold, futures, the main currency of other countries, or anything else that can be bought. In short, it cannot be US dollars!
In just one day, the U.S. dollar fell by more than 3% against the world's major currencies, and it fell by nearly 5% against the yen!
However, some people think this is not enough.
On the afternoon of the same day, Frid Bergsten, then director of the U.S. Institute of International Economics, gave a public speech. In his speech, he made it clear that he believed that the dollar exchange rate was too high and should fall by at least 20%!
Such an explosive statement is of course understood as the official attitude of the U.S. government to the current exchange rate, and of course it has further pushed the exchange rate of the world's major currencies against the US dollar to a new high!
The entire exchange rate market is shrouded in emotions such as tension, anxiety, restlessness, excitement, and so on. Even the prices of all financial products have experienced substantial fluctuations.
However, this is no longer a problem that Tan Zhenhua needs to care about, that is what Guo Zhaode needs to worry about, and at this moment he must face another huge trouble.
"Tom, welcome, I didn't expect you to come."
Tom Dyley is dressed very formally today, in a brand-name suit, and his hair is well-organized. Even his looks are very formal. Well, he has always been like this.
"By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet, Mr. Representative." Tan Zhenhua joked with a smile while letting this old acquaintance into his office. However, he found that Tom Dylay responded with a smile on his face. reluctantly.
This gave him some bad feelings about the reason for Mr. Dile's visit.
"Eric, first of all I have to congratulate you on your great success at the CES show." Dile said, but the words were obviously insincere.
Tan Zhenhua was observing his words, and already understood that Tom Dilai's visit definitely had certain goals, and these goals were obviously not easy to tell.
"Tom, we are old friends too, just tell me if you have anything, or what can I do for you?"
A tangled color appeared on Dile's face. Obviously, the following words are very difficult to say, but since he has come and sat in this office, he still has to speak.
"Eric, do you know the "Arpanet" project?"
"Apanet? What is that?" Tan Zhenhua asked pretendingly in surprise.
In fact, when this term appeared in Tom Dyley's mouth for the first time, Tan Zhenhua finally guessed the purpose of his visit this time, and he also knew why he was so hard to tell.
After returning from the 21st century, how could he not know what "Apanet" is!
This is a project that originated in the Pentagon in the United States, and was developed under the auspices of ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Ministry of Defense of the United States, under the scientific name "ARPAnet."
It was the end of the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War. The U.S. military was worried that its computer network would suffer irreversible losses when it was attacked by Soviet Russia. ARPA built an experimental military network to ensure that even some Computers and networks were destroyed, and the rest of them could still maintain communication. So ARPAnet was born and officially launched in 1969. At the beginning, only 4 computers were connected.
By the 1970s, "Arpanet" had dozens of independent computer networks, but each network could only interconnect and communicate between computers with the same architecture within the network. Different networks and computers with different architectures could still communicate with each other. Cannot communicate. To this end, ARPA has set up a new research project to support the academic and industrial circles to carry out related research. The main content of the research is to use a new method to interconnect computers of different architectures and different LANs to form a complete interconnection. In this research, many data transmission formats and protocols have been born, including the famous Internet Protocol "IP" and Transmission Control Protocol "TCP". Among them, IP is the basic communication protocol, and TCP is the protocol that helps IP realize reliable transmission. These two agreements cooperate with each other, finally make the interconnection and intercommunication between all network terminals possible.
All is ready except for the opportunity.
Only the last key device is missing. The same is used to read and resolve the address in each data packet in the network and then decide how to transmit them. It must be able to understand different protocols, analyze the destination addresses of data packets from different types of networks, convert the addresses of non-TCP/IP networks into TCP/IP addresses, or vice versa, and then convert the data according to the selected algorithm The package is delivered to the designated location on the best route.
And this equipment is now in the hands of "Cisco" company, "Matrix" laboratory, or Tan Zhenhua personally!
Tan Zhenhua knows that the moment the "router" is connected to the "arpanet", the network will begin to undergo a qualitative change.
And the huge network that connects the whole world will also be born at that moment!
The era of the Internet is about to begin.
Tom Dyley is here for Cisco and for routers!
"Eric, you have to understand that I am here today, neither on behalf of myself nor on behalf of Mr. Mellon. I am here as a member of the U.S. Congress and on behalf of the U.S. government."
After Dila briefly explained the origin of the "Apanet", he finally decided to explain his purpose and plan: "Many people think that a key device such as a router is kept in the hands of a person who is not of the US nationality. National security poses a huge threat, and according to our investigation, Mr. Eric, you have maintained close contact with the Chinese government. Eric, you can’t deny this. You even appeared some time ago between Prince Bandar and Prince Bandar. During a meeting where a certain military unit in China secretly contacted, so please understand all of this."
Tan Zhenhua’s face quickly cooled down. He stared at Tom Dile’s face without saying a word. Until Dile showed some anxiety, he asked coldly:
So, what are you going to do? Kill me. Or catch me up and go to Guantanamo?"