The telecommunications equipment exhibition lasted for three and a half days in total. Yu Dong only stayed there for one day, and got up and headed to Manhattan the next day.
The biggest winner at this telecommunications equipment exhibition is Huawei. Their booth is the best in this exhibition. This is the external condition provided by Deep Space Company, and Huawei itself is also very impressive. They are exhibiting this time.
The performance data of their products are very good, basically no different from Cisco's equipment. The key is that the price is much lower, and the price/performance ratio is beyond everyone's imagination.
During the three-day telecommunications equipment exhibition, Deep Space Company received many orders on site.
The entire live broadcast of the exhibition was done by Deep Space Company, which naturally gave Huawei a lot of extra footage. Therefore, Huawei is now famous not only in the industry, but also among ordinary people. Many netizens now know that there is a Chinese company that supports
The awesome one is called Huawei.
Overall, the US$10 million that Deep Space Company paid for this equipment exhibition was well worth it.
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A week later, on the day the "Source Code" movie was released, Yu Dong, who was still in the United States, suddenly received an overseas call from Ren Zhenfei.
After the call was connected, Ren Zhenfei's first words were, "Teacher Yu, we are being sued."
Yu Dong was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Jimmy next to him. Jimmy saw that Yu Dong's expression was abnormal after receiving the call, so he asked, "Whose call is it? What happened?"
"Mr. Ren called and said he was being sued," Yu Dong said.
"Sued by whom?" Jimmy asked.
Yu Dong turned on the speakerphone, and Ren Zhenfei on the other end of the phone said, "Cisco sued us."
"Cisco?"
Jimmy frowned, which surprised him. He thought that after the last exchange, Cisco had given up suing Huawei, and they were still discussing how to cooperate a few days ago. Chambers is a smart man and should know the impact of settlement on them.
It's better to say.
Could it be that Chambers has always wanted to sue Huawei, and his previous behavior was just a smoke bomb to confuse this party?
"Tell us the situation."
"Cisco filed a lawsuit against us in the Federal Court of the Eastern District of Texas, accusing us and our subsidiary futurewei in the United States of misappropriating their operating system source code and applying it to the operating system of our quidway routers and switches... The content of these lawsuits is basically the same as before you
The information provided is consistent."
When talking about this, Ren Zhenfei couldn't help but sigh at how powerful Jimmy was. He actually understood Cisco's methods so early, and they also made targeted preparations in advance.
As early as after Jimmy notified them, they began to take corresponding measures. During this period, they have dealt with all the hidden dangers in the company. They asked employees to tell the truth and not to hide anything to prevent the company from having to pay attention to personal cheating behavior.
We took legal responsibility and organized personnel to make changes to the disputed areas.
At the same time, comprehensively clean up the company's documents. When the documents are unclear, explain how the software was compiled.
On the other hand, Huawei is also cooperating with Deep Space Company to discuss cooperation with some companies in the United States, hoping to reach a united front with these companies, and has begun to acquire the American company Cognine and establish a joint venture with 3.
Therefore, when he heard that Huawei was being sued, Ren Zhenfei actually did not panic.
Jimmy and Yu Dong were no longer panicking, but Jimmy was a little surprised by Chambers' move.
"No matter what Chambers thinks, you must be prepared to respond to the lawsuit now. Lao Ren, let Guo Ping and Xu Wenwei come to the United States again and let them form a team to deal with the lawsuit. On the other hand, I will go back and try with Chambers.
Let’s negotiate and reconcile.” At this point, Jimmy paused, and then continued, “The possibility of reconciliation is slim, so be mentally prepared to respond to the lawsuit.”
Ren Zhenfei laughed, "I'm already mentally prepared for this."
Although Ren Zhenfei was in good condition, Jimmy smiled and said, "The company has been sued, but you can still laugh, Old Ren."
"Since this is unavoidable, you have to have a good attitude to deal with it. Besides, now that you are here, I feel more relaxed."
What Ren Zhenfei said was true. Deep Space Company's acquisition of them has basically been finalized. Now it can be said that Huawei has one foot across the threshold of the Deep Space Company family, and it will be officially announced to the outside world in a short time.
Now he no longer needs to worry about anything at Huawei. His stress has dropped sharply, and his health has been much better recently than before.
Jimmy smiled and said, "Having a good attitude is a good thing. A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. If you can win this lawsuit, it will still be good for you. At least no one will question you in the future. And this time
The lawsuit is also an experience for you. After it passes, your development will be better."
By now, Jimmy's mentality has also changed.
Jimmy has always advocated not filing a lawsuit. In his opinion, filing a lawsuit is a serious internal conflict, so he strives to negotiate a settlement with Chambers. However, in this case, settlement is basically impossible. In this case, responding to the lawsuit
Basically the only path.
When there is only one way to go, all you can do is walk it well and turn crises into opportunities.
After hanging up the phone on Ren Zhenfei, Jimmy smiled and shook his head, "Why is this Chambers so angry all of a sudden?"
"Do you want to call him?" Yu Dong asked.
"I'll call now." Jimmy picked up the phone on his desk and dialed directly. When the call was connected, he would turn it on on speaker phone.
Chambers' voice came from the other end of the phone, "Jimmy, are you calling me at this time to treat me to dinner?"
Jimmy smiled and said: "Of course I want to treat you to dinner, but I don't know if you will give me this opportunity."
"If you invite me to dinner, I will go there no matter how busy I am, but I'm afraid I can't do it these two days. Our company is a bit busy."
"Are you busy at the court?"
Upon hearing this, Chambers understood the purpose of Jimmy's call, "Haha, I knew you were calling about Huawei. It seems that Ren has already called you."
Jimmy said, "Can't reconcile?"
"Of course, we can. We have discussed the terms of settlement with Huawei, but they don't agree. I have no choice. As long as Ren signs the document, I can ask them to withdraw the lawsuit now. The matter is very simple," Chambers said.
Jimmy nodded, "I understand, but I'm a little curious as to why you suddenly changed your mind. Your attitude was not like this before."
Chambers said with a smile, "I still believe that intellectual property rights are sacred and inviolable. If we cannot even protect intellectual property rights, we will eventually fall into chaos."
Jimmy twitched his lips, this nonsense could only fool elementary school students, not even junior high school students.
"Does your change of attitude have something to do with this telecommunications equipment exhibition?" Jimmy asked.
Not long after the telecommunications equipment show, Cisco sued Huawei. This was such a coincidence, that's why Jimmy speculated like this.
Chambers fell silent, and Jimmy smiled, "It seems to be related. Can I understand that Huawei's products make you feel threatened, so much so that you would rather offend us and initiate a lawsuit?"
"Jimmy, I didn't mean to offend you. Huawei is Huawei, and you are you, right? Why do you have to choose Huawei? Is it because Huawei is a Chinese company? Because YU wants it? Choosing Huawei may not be a certainty for you.
It's a good thing. If you are willing not to interfere in this matter, we will definitely..."
Jimmy directly interrupted Chambers and said, "I was not sure whether it was right to acquire Huawei before, but now it seems that this decision is absolutely correct. What you are suing now is not Huawei, but a subsidiary of Deep Space, so you are going to
We are also facing deep space, Chambers, there is no way you can win this lawsuit."
After saying that, before Chambers could answer, Jimmy had already hung up the phone.
Yu Dong said with a smile, "It seems that Chambers' change is related to Huawei's performance at the Telecommunications Equipment Exhibition. Huawei's products make him afraid. He understands that if Huawei is not suppressed, Huawei will seriously threaten them."
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Jimmy nodded and said, "That's true. For the same product, the price is so much lower. Users naturally know how to choose. Those orders at the exhibition are the answer. Now it seems that acquiring Huawei is the right choice. What we have to do next is
Help Huawei win this lawsuit. After the lawsuit is over, we will also help Huawei defeat Cisco in the market. Chambers must pay the price for his choice."
"Let's wait until Guo Ping and the others arrive to discuss this matter. Please be more careful about this matter. I will return to China tomorrow."
"Go back to China directly and don't go to Neon and Korea to watch the World Cup?"
Yu Dong shook his head, "I won't watch anymore. Now I have to start preparing for the next World Cup."
"Isn't it too early to prepare now?"
"Not early, not at all."
"This is in line with your style. You plan everything long in advance. In fact, the money in the Chinese football market is relatively easy to make. Youth training and football popularization have great market potential. The Chinese team performed well in this World Cup.
, there will definitely be a wave of popularity in China, and I even want to buy an A-A football team to play."
Yu Dong waved his hand, "Let's give up this idea. Now we can still stand on a high ground and give some opinions on Chinese football. If we buy an A-A team, it will be bad if we want to say anything. There are many problems in the domestic league.
, there is no need to fall into this quagmire.”
"But if you want Chinese football to really develop, it won't work if the league doesn't start."
Yu Dong sighed slightly and said, "Let's take it slow. As long as we can steadily send players abroad for training, we can hope to achieve good results. As for youth training and the popularization of football, we have to do it slowly."
From Yu Dong's point of view, it is much better to do this now than twenty years later. Although the economic level is not as good as it was later, the football atmosphere is pretty good.
At least now, whether you are in a city or a rural area, whether you are in a junior high school, a high school or a university, it is very easy to form a football team. Some schools even have a football team for every class.
But later on, many institutions of higher learning with more than five-digit student numbers were unable to organize a school football team.
Take the Jinling Art Institute where Yu Dong teaches as an example. With the development of the times, the number of Jinling Art students is actually increasing, but fewer and fewer people are participating in the football team.
In Jia Zhangke's class, there were a total of 23 students in the class, and there were only 12 boys. In this way, they formed a football team. Although the football team was very weak, it was difficult to organize games.
But there is such a system.
Because in the eyes of students at this time, it is abnormal for a class not to have a football team. Having a football captain in a class is as normal as having a monitor, study committee member, and labor committee member.
Later, let alone a major, a school as big as Jinyi could not organize a school football team. The main function of the football field was to do exercises.
"If I don't buy a team in League A, I would like to play with a team in La Liga. Which team do you think is good?"
"Then I suggest you buy Barcelona and Real Madrid directly."
"Well, forget it, it's too difficult to buy them."
Jimmy said that it is difficult to buy Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​not just because these two clubs are famous and expensive. If we only talk about price, there is no club in the world that Deep Space Company cannot afford, not even Manchester United.
It was captured by the Deep Space Company without much effort.
Even for clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​if we just count the price, the two combined cannot afford Huawei or Turner Broadcasting to carry shoes. Deep Space Company can afford them with just a little bit of money.
However, Real Madrid and Barcelona have a membership system, so it is more troublesome to buy, and if a club like this is traded, the local government will definitely interfere.
Jimmy just said it casually about buying a football club and didn't take it too seriously. Originally, when they entered the football world, they didn't want to make money from the football team itself, but wanted to take advantage of football's powerful publicity ability.
Including the football stars they signed, each one was given such good benefits. If these young players did not perform well, they would definitely lose money. Even if they performed well, they would not be able to make a lot of money as an agency, but they signed
In the high-benefits contract, Deep Space Company has priority in choosing sponsorship.
This means that in the future, when young players such as Messi, Benzema, and Cristiano become famous, they may still wear Yunfan's football shoes.
Because the Chinese team entered the World Cup finals and performed quite well, many domestic sports brands are now thinking about making football shoes. For example, the former sports big brother Li Ning has just established a new department to specialize in making football shoes.
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However, if you want to make a pair of shoes that can be produced, it will definitely not take two or three years, but the market waits for no one.
Chapter completed!