Dr. Wu Jun, who graduated from Tsinghua University, mentioned in the book "Tide Peak" that he was at AT & amp； During the internship, the staff in the lab are very enthusiastic and the working environment is very good, just like Google and Facebook now.
At that time, many people set the desktop as the sunset photo of the company in the evening. Now thinking about it seems to indicate the afterglow of an empire.
At&T Company. T company is located in Florum Park, USA, surrounded by grasslands and forests, and its laboratory headquarters is located in this beautiful industrial park.
At&T Company. T is an American AT&T company founded by alexander bell. It was originally called Bell Company, and people all over the world know it. The invention of the telephone was in&; T realized the long-distance real-time interaction between human beings for the first time, which had a great impact on the whole world and promoted human progress.
Bell Laboratories established by the company is also the largest and most successful private laboratory in the world, at & amp； Without the credit of Bell Laboratories, T Company could not have made huge monopoly profits in the telecommunications industry. For a long time, Bell Laboratories became famous in the fields of astronomy, transistors and semiconductors, computer science and so on.
At that time, those who were able to enter Bell Laboratories were lucky, not only with considerable income, but also with reliable retirement security and social status.
At&T Company. T company has long monopolized the Canadian telephone service communication equipment controlled by the United States. According to the requirements of the federal anti-monopoly law, AT & amp； T Company's local telephone business was spun off, and then eight small Bell companies engaged in local telephone business, at & amp； T company is engaged in long-distance business and communication equipment.
This split has also become a cornerstone of its rapid withdrawal from the historical stage. Actually, starting from 1995, at & amp； T company has two excellent development opportunities, one is the network revolution, and the other is the leap of wireless communication.
Although the company has been bound by the anti-monopoly law for more than 100 years since its establishment, the judicial department has not really promoted it, but trimmed its branches and leaves to make it develop better. Although in&; At the beginning of its establishment, T Company was protected by patent, but after more than ten years, the patent expired, so many telephone companies appeared in the United States at one time. However, with the leading technology and successful commercial acquisition, T Company quickly eliminated its competitors and expanded a lot of business overseas.
During the Great Depression (1929-1933), at & amp； T company recovered quickly, with telephone coverage reaching 50%, becoming the most profitable company in the United States, and Bell Laboratories also had many research and development achievements. Many people worry that some small companies in the United States can quickly become multinational companies, one of the reasons is the persecution of anti-monopoly law. When a company becomes a monopoly company, it will be more inclined to make use of its monopolized resources than to obtain more profits through technological progress. After all, the former is much easier than the latter. Therefore, at & amp； T company has become the leading level in the industry in technology, which is unparalleled.
1995，at &； T company came to a feng shui ridge, and the US stock market rose first and then fell, at&; The management of company T was blinded by profits, and a separation of killing the goose that lays the golden egg began.
At&T Company. T company first divides itself into three parts: AT& is engaged in telecommunication services; T, Lucent is engaged in equipment manufacturing and NCR is engaged in computer business. Later, Lucent's huge laboratory, whose profit was not enough to support more than 20,000 people, began to focus on R&D experiments at first and turned it into profitable research. Of course, the good times did not last long, and Lucent's stock market began to fall, which also indicated that it was about to encounter a real decline.
With the rise of communication business, Lucent once again killed the goose that lays the golden egg and split up again. When the Internet bubble burst, Lucent's stock market plummeted. By 200 1, Lucent, which was still alive, was acquired by Alcatel.
At&T Company. T is better than Lucent, but because of the separation of Bell Labs, the rise of the Internet poses a great threat to his core business.
At&T Company. T company could have walked to the forefront of the world by wireless technology and mobile communication, but since the separation, all parties were doomed to be incomplete, and everything was a foregone conclusion.
20065438+0 "9.11"terrorist attack had a great impact on AT&T. new york's equipment was destroyed, but the company was unable to repair it. In the following six months, in&; T is almost completely dissolved
At&T Company. The demise of the T-Empire has both internal causes from Wall Street and its own greed, and external causes from the rise of the Internet. Although the fixed line is the only means of communication for human beings, it still can't resist the advance of the network wave. People's dependence on data gradually exceeds that on voice exchange equipment.
Just like the end of an era, the replacement of old technology by new technology is independent of human will. The luckiest thing in life is to develop and adapt to this trend.
We regret &; T Empire failed to master the DSL high-speed Internet access weapon invented by Bell Labs, and was later applied by Stanford University professors. Unfortunately, it failed to grasp the opportunities brought by the information revolution in the past decade, but was buried in the internet wave.
But we should thank it for its guidance in the information age. If in&; When T comes back, I believe it will make a lot of mistakes, because its age is up, just like people can't live to be 200 years old, and the company has a life span. This is the law, which is hard to surpass.
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