89: Chapter 89 The Next Era

"And Fifth-Generation Communication Technology is the path I have chosen."

Lin Yuan's voice was steady, yet it caused the atmosphere in the corridor to stagnate.

Chen Jingshan did not respond, merely watching the young man before him quietly.

Sunlight shone in from the window at the end of the corridor, slicing across Lin Yuan's profile; his twenty-year-old contours were sharp, clean, and devoid of the slightest hesitation.

This demeanor of extreme certainty was not something Chen Jingshan had seen for the first time.

From that brief glimpse when they first met two months ago, to today, standing before the entire world, chatting and laughing, directing the course of events.

Every step this kid took landed precisely outside everyone's predictions.

And every step was further, more ruthless, and crazier than predicted!

Chen Jingshan was silent for a few seconds, exhaling a slightly long breath.

"Lin Yuan, I have to admit that your analysis just now has some merit."

He raised a hand to rub his temples, weighing his words in his mind before speaking with extreme caution.

"But there is one most fatal practical problem."

"Currently, not to mention domestically, even those communication giants The Other Side of the Ocean are completely blank regarding the so-called 'fifth generation'."

"There are no unified technical standards, no formed application scenario plans, let alone any commercial timetable."

"The entire international academic community hasn't even formed a framework consensus yet."

Chen Jingshan's fingers unconsciously clasped behind his back.

"In other words, on this path of the fifth generation, there are no road signs, no maps, and even the direction is shrouded in mist."

"Starting from zero, completely unaware of where to begin."

These words were very realistic.

Fifth-Generation Communication Technology, at this current point in time, was a completely blank slate.

It wasn't that no one had thought about it, but that everyone felt it was too far off, so far that it wasn't worth discussing right now.

International communication giants had just rolled out fourth-generation base stations, and the invested R&D funds hadn't even been recouped; who would be bored enough to touch something that didn't even have a definition?

Listening to Chen Jingshan's words, Lin Yuan just smiled lightly.

"It doesn't matter if they don't have it internationally."

"Anyway, on my end, I already have a general idea."

Chen Jingshan's brow relaxed slightly.

Wei Jiancheng slowly lowered the two arms he had been holding across his chest.

Neither of them pressed further, just watching him quietly, waiting for him to continue.

Lin Yuan didn't beat around the bush and continued to explain.

"To figure out how to define the fifth generation, we must first look back at the trajectory of the previous generations."

He held up one finger.

"Third-generation communication technology, which is what we are currently using."

"The officially given commercial peak download rate is 7.2 M."

"Sounds okay, right?"

Lin Yuan tilted his head, the corners of his mouth twitching.

"But in reality, when ordinary people open their phones, what is the actual speed they can reach?"

He used his thumb and index finger to indicate a very narrow gap.

"A few dozen K, up to two hundred K."

"If you're lucky, in the middle of the night when no one is using the network, you might reach a ceiling of three or four hundred K."

"If you're unlucky? The webpage loading spinner can spin until you doubt your life!"

Lin Yuan shook his head.

"What can you do with this bandwidth?"

"Send some text messages, transfer a few small, blurry compressed images, open a webpage, and waiting for ten seconds or so is the norm."

"Even for slightly larger images, you need to refresh for ages before they load."

"As for video? Don't even think about it!"

Chen Jingshan and Wei Jiancheng nodded slightly at the same time.

Both of them felt a sense of shared resonance with Lin Yuan's description.

The vast majority of mobile phone users in the Xia Kingdom were still enduring this turtle-speed network, having to wait several seconds just to load a single image.

"Therefore, the third generation is essentially a 'text era'."

"The core problem it solved was merely letting people connect to the internet with their phones anytime, anywhere."

"As for what you can do after connecting... sorry, it's extremely limited."

Lin Yuan didn't pause and held up a second finger.

"Now look at the fourth generation."

"The Other Side of the Ocean, they are already crazily staking their claims, and domestically, we are gritting our teeth and accelerating the push."

"Looking at the currently available data, the overall performance is significantly improved compared to the third generation; the commercial peak download rate can reach over 100 M, and some experimental networks are even higher."

"And the actual user experience speed can stabilize in the range of a few M to over ten M."

Lin Yuan flicked his extended finger lightly in the air.

"What order of magnitude is this improvement? It's dozens of times faster than the third generation."

"A speed difference of dozens of times doesn't just mean 'a little faster'; it directly changes the form of communication content."

"With this speed as a foundation, mobile communication tools are no longer limited to text and images."

"Video calls, online video streaming, instant transmission of large images..."

"Things that were unthinkable under third-generation networks can become everyday occurrences in a fourth-generation environment."

"From the text era, leaping to the video era."

"This is the essential change of the fourth generation relative to the third."

Chen Jingshan nodded again, with a slightly larger motion than before.

This was precisely the core driving force behind the country pushing forward with fourth-generation construction, even knowing that most fourth-generation patents were in foreign hands.

Upgrading communication infrastructure has never been purely a technical issue.

It even relates to the entire nation's digital economy foundation, information security architecture, and even military communication capabilities.

"So..."

Lin Yuan retracted his two fingers and loosely clenched his whole hand in mid-air.

"Since the transition from the third generation to the fourth was a leap from text to video, with speed increasing dozens of times and application scenarios undergoing a qualitative change."

"Then what should the fifth generation be like?"

He released his hand, spreading his five fingers.

"Extrapolating from this development trajectory, the performance improvement of the fifth generation should at least not be lower than the magnitude of the previous intergenerational leap."

"According to my vision..."

In the corridor, only Lin Yuan's voice echoed.

"For Fifth-Generation Communication Technology, the commercial peak download rate must at least reach the G level."

Chen Jingshan's fingers paused at his side.

Wei Jiancheng's mouth moved, but he didn't make a sound.

"The actual user experience speed can reach the hundred M level."

Lin Yuan continued to throw out the second set of data.

Chen Jingshan rubbed his fingers against the seam of his trousers twice.

His brain was rapidly digesting the industrial significance behind these parameters.

But Lin Yuan wasn't finished yet.

"And these are just conventional speed upgrades."

He withdrew his hand, his gaze lingering on Chen Jingshan's and Wei Jiancheng's faces for a second each.

"In my view, every upgrade of top-tier communication technology should bring about a massive change that subverts the way the entire world operates!"

"And the true core value of the fifth generation should not lie in letting people use their phones to get on the internet faster."

Lin Yuan spoke, his words unhurried but resonant.

"It should lie in..."

"Promoting industrial upgrading."