17 milliseconds is the time it takes for a hummingbird to vibrate its wings once, which is also the origin of the title of the play. Vinny, played by Juan Xi, works in Microwave Communications. This company mainly conducts high-frequency trading. In stock trading, time is money. The faster the company buys and sells, the more money the company can make. Vinny wanted to start a business. He planned to lay a straight optical fiber from Kansas to New York to reduce the delay of information, so as to earn the time difference and become a millionaire. It is hard to imagine that it took a lot of effort to lay 2,000 kilometers of pipelines just to reduce one millisecond. If this millisecond is successful, you can earn hundreds of thousands per minute, no, it is seconds. It just so happened that his cousin Anton was unhappy in the microwave, and every time his advanced ideas could not be adopted, he was very aggrieved.
In fact, Anton didn't want to be his own boss. He just wanted to buy a house on the mountain with money, live with his family, study the code by himself, and live a quiet life without being disturbed by others after the success of this plan. .
After the two resigned from Microwave, Anton concentrated on his research, trying to find a way to achieve a delay speed of only 16 milliseconds after the optical fiber was installed. Although the difference from the current 17 milliseconds is only 1 millisecond, this is an almost impossible task.
Vinny is in charge of funding and engineering management. There are many difficulties in the operation process, the purchase of land use rights, the construction of mountains and the land, and the arrangement of the engineering team, they are basically busy with high-intensity work. But it was still a lot of hardships, and Vinny also found out that he had stomach cancer at this time.
Ava, the former boss of the company, felt that it was not easy for Anton to resign. She found someone to follow Vinny and Anton and found that they wanted to erect a straight optical fiber, which directly threatened the interests of Microwave. Ava approached Anton and threatened him that if he continued his research, she would apply for the FBI to intervene and accuse them of cheating with code. At the same time, they hired their construction team at a high price to achieve the purpose of shutdown. And she found a dissertation study by a college student. If this result is successfully applied to the current signal tower, she can dominate the family. Well, you can really do whatever you want with money, and put a lot of money into scientific research.
While progress was being made on Vinny's side, the FBI put Anton in jail. At the same time Microwave reduced the time to 11 milliseconds. This also declares that even if Vinny and the others are successful in laying the optical fiber, the speed of 16 milliseconds is useless.
Anton uses the time-delay code he set up at his former company Microwave to ask Ava to drop the charges and save herself from prison. Otherwise, the delay of 20 milliseconds will basically collapse the company. Although Anton seems to be submissive in the play, at the end, he showed the climax of the technical house.
Although at the end of the film the protagonist's plan failed. But not everyone has the courage to pull sponsorship from scratch to implement what no one has done so far. And while they didn't outpace the others, their latency was 15 milliseconds when fiber actually worked, making the impossible possible. And technology is really the primary productive force, which is why big companies are willing to invest a lot of money to develop their own R&D departments. If successful, the big investment is also the big return.
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