At the beginning of the launch of China's next-generation Internet demonstration project, Yang Xing and others actively advised the central government to put the industrial development of CNGI's achievements first. Now the effect has been reflected. From the key equipment IPV6 core router to related software and applications, CNGI has initially formed a next-generation Internet industry group second only to the United States, completely changing the passive situation of my country's first-generation Internet period, and laying an important foundation for the future transformation of my country's information industry and even the entire social and economic industry.

One of the main topics of the national information strategy discussion that Yang Xing returned to China to participate in the discussion is how to unite with the forces of many domestic scientific research institutions to develop independent technical Chinese domain name servers based on the IPV6 protocol. Now the preliminary design plan and trial products have come into view, which will greatly promote the establishment of the next generation of Internet in the country. At the meeting, many experts were excited to express their excitement that they would seize the commanding heights of the technical standards of the next generation of Internet in the meeting.

However, the ideal is full and the reality is very skinny. Although domestic governments and industry people are both optimistic about the IPV6 network, Yang Xing's speech poured cold water on everyone at the meeting. "IPV4 and IPV6 are two incompatible protocols, which means that any device wants to connect to the Internet and must be compatible with these two protocols at the same time to work normally for a certain period of time. For this reason, global network operators must 'double stack' these two protocols for a period of time, which means that ipv4 and ipv6 will run on the same line at the same time for a long time. Only then can ipv4 be withdrawn from the market."

"In order to ensure the interaction between the two parties during this period, as a data center operator, we must make twice the effort to keep the two running smoothly, so that we should take this opportunity to learn how to make the current infrastructure network and future versions live in harmony. All equipment in the data center support these two protocols, which is equivalent to building a network again, and the money will definitely be spent. Do you think domestic network operators are mentally prepared for this?!"

After his words, the originally warm atmosphere in the venue suddenly became a brief and cold. After careful consideration, everyone woke up and understood that Yang Xing's words revealed the secret. Although everyone thinks that IPV6 technology is advanced and can immediately solve the problem of insufficient address resources. It cannot directly bring unique business and market opportunities. There is no suitable profit model, but it requires huge capital investment. Therefore, all parties in the industrial chain lack business momentum, and the market cannot be truly started by relying on actions in a certain link alone. This situation has occurred in the Internet era. One of the main reasons for the bursting of the Internet bubble is that the profit prospects are unclear and it cannot be supported by burning money alone.

Yang Xing continued to unveil the industry's lid incisive way. "When users are surfing the Internet, the most concerned thing about the web page opening speed, whether the program runs smoothly, and whether the download is fast, rather than studying what kind of technology is used in the backend. High-tech must ultimately make the general public feel the convenience of service. If there is no major change, no matter how good you make the technology, no one will pay, and operators will feel that it is not much to use the old version. Where can the motivation for upgrading come from?"

Although Yang Xing's cold water has caused embarrassment among domestic officials and experts, fortunately, the seminar itself is an internal discussion. Unexpectedly, the helmsman of the company who has risen rapidly in the international community and has been unable to raise its head in traditional electronic advantageous regions and countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, his words must be taken seriously. As one of the organizers of the conference, the leader of the Ministry of Information Industry, had learned about Yang Xing's speech style of suppressing and then rising in the 3G license that year, so he also put down his airs and took the attitude of being educated and heard what Yang Xing had good ideas.

Of course, Yang Xing didn't want to kill the next generation of Internet. This is related to whether his company can obtain a large order of tens of trillions of yuan in the next few decades. He also got the epidemic prevention injection first so that everyone would not feel too good about themselves. When talking about the strategic layout of the domestic information industry, he had too much research with his subordinates, so he naturally talked about it when he got the opportunity.

"If we want to promote the construction of the next generation of Internet, we can't just come from behind closed doors and sing. We must consider the overall strategic situation. My opinion is that the times are developing, and the information industry is no longer limited to landlines and wired networks. I suggest adopting the "three-network integration" plan mentioned in the National 15th Plan - integrating telecommunications, television, and Internet into one place, and directly unifying these three network standards with the IPV6 protocol."

Yang Xing's words did not trigger the usual response. After he finished speaking, he saw that many ministries and commissions participating in the discussion had different expressions. Obviously, this plan was not new. It had been discussed many times in China before, but it ended in vain. Yang Xing broke the surface of the harmonious window paper of interest groups on this issue. The idea of ​​the integration of the three networks was not first created by Yang Xing. At least in 1998, the National Sports Reform Commission proposed this idea in the State Council's informatization development strategy.

The integration of three networks can be seen from the beginning of Unicom in 1994. At that time, the Ministry of Electronics, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Electricity, and the Ministry of Radio and Television established China Unicom, which was given the important task of breaking the monopoly position of "Old China Telecom". However, the difficulty of domestic reform in recent years is to break the market monopoly position of regional and departmental vested interest groups. Unicom did put some pressure on "Old Telecom", but it was far from reaching a fair competition with it. It was not until the "Old Telecom" was split and its landline, mobile communications and network services were truly out. However, due to the division of industry regulations and the refusal of vested interest groups to let go of their own interests, Unicom not only failed to establish a side of its own market competitors, but also gradually integrated into the interest groups. Domestic telecommunications, television, and Internet are still fighting each other.

In March 2001, the new government clarified the concept of "three-network integration" in the National 15th Five-Year Plan, but radio, television, telecommunications and mobile operators were still indifferent. Since the plan only talks about ideas, lacks substantive content and plans, and has no coercive power, it has been delayed until now and is only at the verbal stage. At this time, Yang Xing used the old words to build the next generation of Internet to re-introduce the government officials at the meeting, which embarrassed the meeting. However, Premier Wen Rengui took the busy schedule to preside over this meeting. Although there were little people in his mind in each ministries and commissions, it was difficult to clearly stand up and oppose it, so he could only let Yang Xing continue.

Yang Xing pointed out that building the next generation of Internet is inseparable from the efforts of both operators and content service providers, but operators propose that IPv6 requires a lot of investment, but there is currently no content and users have no demand. Wouldn't such investment be wasted? Content providers suggest that there are too few network access points for IPv6 at present, and only a few users of pilot areas and education and research networks use it. They need mainstream operators to provide large-scale IPv6 access, otherwise the huge cost of migrating services will be targetless, so they can let go of converting the content of the IPv4 protocol into IPv6.

So this is a paradox circle of "there are chickens and eggs". Without large-scale access to the operator network and not enough users, the Internet website said it would not risk being the "leader", but operators hoped that the content would come first to provide support for them to transform the network. To break this vicious circle, a strong coordinator must come forward. At present, only the government can take on this important task.

"IPV6, as the foundation and important part of the next generation of Internet, is an important tool and entry point for my country to develop the next generation of Internet. We must transition simultaneously with the international community so that we can not lose at the starting line. Now the United States has proposed to officially move to IPV6 before 2010, and the next generation of Internet is fully upgraded to 100g high-speed transmission. We don't have much time to wait." Yang Xing warned in an emphasis.

He proposed that whether it is to build the next generation of Internet or the integration of three networks, it is not enough to simply rely on enterprises because it involves industry and business interests. He took the United States to promote the integration of three networks as an example and pointed out that from 1970 to 1990, in order to protect the new cable TV industry and avoid monopoly, telecommunications companies used unfair competition to exclude cable TV companies, the Federal Telecommunications Commission banned telecommunications companies from operating cable TV business in a mixed industry. This is very similar to the reasons that the Ministry of Radio and Television has made no choice but to allow Internet service providers to provide on-demand broadcasting.

However, by the early 1990s, the Federal Telecommunications Commission believed that the cable TV industry had grown and strengthened after integration, allowing telecommunications companies to enter the video program service market to promote the ripening of diversified video programs, so it recommended to abolish the ban on mixed operations. In 1996, the US Congress promulgated the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which stipulated that cable TV operators and their affiliated agencies would no longer have to apply for concessions; similarly, telecommunications companies could also provide broadcast and television services through wireless communications, cable TV systems and open video systems, and the two began to integrate into each other.

This law completely broke the restrictions on the mixed operations of the US information industry, enhanced competition in the basic telecommunications field, allowing long talk, local talk, radio, cable TV, film and television services and other businesses to penetrate each other, and also allowed various telecom operators to participate in each other and create a legal environment for free competition. As a result, the entire information industry has achieved unprecedented rapid development, and a large number of traditional film and television industry players have joined forces with Internet upstarts. The most famous is the merger of American Online and Time Warner. Film and television entertainment companies in the traditional sense of the United States are declining, such as MGM. Large information industry groups that have both television, telecommunications and the Internet have become the backbone of Internet services. Even after the blow of the bursting of the Internet bubble, this trend is still accelerating.

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