Chapter 539 Epoch-making Progress (Part 1)
"Northern Territory... Ether... Web..." The compound eyes of the ether spider once again began to flash fiercely.
Ether is its name, and the net should refer to its spiritual fiber network. These are all easy to understand.
But when combined with the Northern Territory, its specific meaning is somewhat unclear.
This is an unusual phrase for it.
Gaode was very patient and expressed all his ideas slowly.
It is said to be slow, but in fact it is very fast, because they are direct communication of consciousness, and the exchange of information takes place in an instant.
Moreover, Gothe only needs to say what he needs the Ether Spider to do, and does not need to explain the specific principles - if he really explains it one by one, the Ether Spider will most likely be difficult to understand, and it will waste [Whispers from the Spirit World] time.
Although the positioning was precise this time, the Ether Spider was found directly, saving a lot of waste of energy in the spiritual world.
But Gothe has a lot to do this time, and he must seize the time to avoid being forcibly pulled back to the north before Yuga Tshila's energy in the spiritual world is exhausted.
The next time [Whispers from the Spirit World] will be nearly two months later.
At this moment, Gaode didn't want to wait any longer.
After anyone knows that their home needs to be "connected to the Internet", they will want to get it done as soon as possible.
If it’s delayed until two months later, then you shouldn’t die in a hurry!
And it turns out that the Ether Spider is indeed extremely pure.
After receiving Gothe's request, it did not even think about asking for the specific reason. It just started trying according to Gothe's request. The Ether Spider's pure spiritual world biological instinct makes it only know "execution" and "weaving", and unnecessary questions will never stay in its consciousness.
In the northern border, in the Forest of Flora, in the space around the trunk of Yugatha Shila, ripples like water waves suddenly appeared.
The air is twisted into layers of arcs of light.
The intertwined energy of blue, silver and white unique to the spiritual world seeps out along the gaps in the ripples, making the energy of the spiritual world here suddenly become much richer.
The next moment, a silver-blue "tentacle" poked out from the center of the ripples.
That is a newly condensed spiritual fiber of the ether spider.
But compared to other spiritual vein fibers, this spiritual vein fiber is extremely thick, as if it is a combination of real and spiritual vein fibers, with a liquid-like halo of the spiritual world flowing on the surface.
In order to penetrate the plane barrier, the spiritual energy inside the fiber is compressed to the extreme, and you can even see the veins of energy rushing through the fiber.
There are originally plane barriers between different planes. It is almost impossible to break this barrier, which is enough to isolate all exchanges of matter and energy.
Unless it is like the Earth Line Plane and the Void Plane, which directly intersects with the Mage Plane and creates a stable space channel, only Earth Line Creatures and Void Creatures can set foot in the Mage World.
But the spiritual world is relatively special, because it is not a material plane, but a transitional plane connecting the mage plane and the inner plane.
It is a special plane attached to the mage plane. It corresponds to the mage plane everywhere. In the spiritual plane, there is even a vague scene of the mage plane.
To put it simply, it is like an inner layer of skin that adheres to the mage plane.
In this case, it will be relatively easy for spiritual creatures to enter the mage plane.
In fact, there are also some spirit world creatures that accidentally get lost in the mage plane, or spirit world creatures that are summoned by the mage's spells.
Yugatsheela absorbs the energy of the spiritual world, which is equivalent to opening a small hole in the barrier between the spiritual world and the mage plane.
The Ether Spider followed the small hole drilled by Yugatha Shela to poke out its overly thick spiritual fiber from the spiritual world and entered the mage plane.
After the spiritual fiber arrived at the mage plane, it stagnated in the air for a moment and quickly found its target.
It twisted nimbly and flew towards the secondary crown of Yugathila.
There, several branches are intertwined to form a solid base.
In the center of the base, there is a crystal clear and radiant hundred-sided crystal, [Heart of the North].
That spiritual fiber did not hesitate at all, and flew towards the [Heart of the North] like a bird returning to its nest.
When the end of the fiber touches the surface of the crystal, the white light of the crystal suddenly surges. The silver-blue halo on the surface of the fiber interweaves with the white light, forming a short bridge of light. The fiber seems to be alive, slowly climbing along the edge of the crystal. Every time it climbs over a surface, the surface of the crystal will light up with a silver-blue pattern.
The fibers continued to extend and branch, and soon split from one into two, and two into four. The fine silver-blue silk threads were like a web, slowly spreading along every facet and every corner of [Heart of the North].
Not only in Flora's Forest, the same scene is also playing out in Phoenix.
In the ripples of space, several spiritual vein fibers poked out.
However, compared to the spiritual vein fibers here in Flora Forest, these spiritual vein fibers are much more normal. They are the same as other spiritual vein fibers in the spiritual world. They are as thin as spider silk, but more tough than the toughest mithril thread, and their target is the access key generated by [Heart of the North].
In the spiritual world.
"Broadband widening...successful..." The compound eyes of the Ether Spider shone brightly, with a hint of joy in its consciousness.
It actually doesn’t understand why Gaode called the action of connecting the spiritual fiber to the [Heart of the North] "broadening the bandwidth."
ˆ It has neither a belt nor a width....
ˆ However, as a pure-minded person, it does not pay attention to these details.
For it, Gothe's instructions are the direction of weaving. As long as the fibers can be firmly rooted in the [Heart of the North], the task has been completed.
"It's really successful!" Hearing the information given by the Ether Spider, even Gothe, who had seen many big things in the world, couldn't contain the excitement in his heart.
Without this, anyone who comes from the same world as him can understand how exciting it would be to be connected to the Internet in a place without Internet.
But we should not be too happy yet, because "broadband expansion" is only the first step of the entire plan.
The purpose of "widening the bandwidth" is to break the access distance limit of [Heart of the North].
There are currently two ways to access [Heart of the North]: either through direct contact, or by establishing a spiritual connection with [Heart of the North] through a key, thereby logging into the knowledge base of [Heart of the North].
Needless to say the former, the latter must also be within a hundred meters of [Heart of the North].
This limitation means that [Heart of the North] can only be used as a huge local database and cannot truly spread its value to the north.
But now, with the Ether Spider, with the help of its spiritual fiber web...::...there is full hope to break this distance restriction and make [Heart of the North] not only a database, but also a server.
The access range of the key will no longer be limited by physical distance, but will depend on the coverage of the spiritual fiber network.
As long as you are within the area covered by the Ether Spider's spiritual fiber network, you can access [Heart of the North] through the key.
"Addressing...Routing...Protocol...Media..." The Ether Spider kept repeating the information conveyed by Gaode.
It cannot understand the meaning of these words at all, but these words are very new, complex and obscure, and it likes them very much, so it keeps repeating them.
Of course, this novelty and complexity is only for the Ether Spider. If you look at it as a person from Gothe's previous life, you will definitely understand at once that Gothe's entire idea is actually not complicated:
Referring to the Internet in the previous life, combining the abilities of [Heart of the North] and the Ether Spider to create a Northern Ethernet.
In order to maintain the function and normal operation of the Northern Ethernet, the specific logic and operations that need to be performed need to be explained clearly to the Ether Spider.
Gaode knew this, so he set aside a lot of time to explain and explain.
The entire Northland Ethernet will have a four-layer architecture.
One is the physical layer, or the data link layer, which serves as the "foundation" of the entire northern Ethernet network. The core functions are provided by the Ethernet Spider alone.
The physical medium is the spiritual fiber web woven by Tai Spider. This web not only covers most areas of the spiritual world, but also extends to the mage plane, forming a bottom-level communication network that runs through both worlds.
Its mission is simple: responsible for transmitting original information.
It's just that compared to the network cables of previous generations, it can transmit extremely complex and direct information, instead of only transmitting binary data.
Because of the etheric spider's magical ability to instantly reach information on the web, coupled with the dependence of the spirit world and the mage plane, it is possible to realize distance-independent transmission in the area covered by the spiritual fiber network in disguise.
Each key generated by [Heart of the North] will be "registered" in the spiritual fiber network when it is produced.
That is to ask the Ether Spider to give it a unique message that it can read and distinguish, so as to have a unique identifier as the physical address of the key.
After the registration is completed, the "Administrator" will assign access rights to this key through [Heart of the North].
This registered and authorized key will be called a key. The Ether Spider's role at this level is more like a "silent administrator". It does not need to understand complex permission logic and only needs to instinctively complete what it has been doing:
Manage the daily operation of the spiritual vein fiber network and repair broken fibers. Expand the uncovered area to ensure smooth network;
Provide long-distance, high-speed information transmission channels, allowing information to flow instantly;
Handle basic information conflicts, error detection and access control, ensuring that only registered keys can access [Heart of the North] and log in to the Ethernet.
[Heart of the North] itself actually has two very fatal limitations: generating an access key requires the consumption of valuable materials, and the daily energy consumption of [Heart of the North] will increase with each additional key.
In fact, they are both easy to understand. The former is that if you want to connect to the Internet, you have to spend a huge sum of money first to buy a computer.
As for the latter, isn’t it true that with every additional user, server maintenance costs increase.
There is nothing to say about the former, it is an iron rule and cannot be circumvented.
As for the latter, we must find ways to avoid it.
Otherwise, every time a remote user is added, the load pressure on [Heart of the North] as a server will increase linearly, and sooner or later it will be overwhelmed by the increased horrific energy consumption.
As for the method, Gaode has already thought of it.
Under the old model, each key establishes an independent, point-to-point spiritual connection with [Heart of the North].
[Heart of the North] needs to process all connections at the same time, which is the fundamental reason why its energy consumption increases linearly with the number of keys.
The key to solving this problem is that [Heart of the North] cannot directly establish an independent and continuous spiritual connection with each key.
This requires the Ether Spider to take action.
All keys are first connected to the Ether Spider's spiritual fiber network.
The communication between keys and the communication between the key and [Heart of the North] are all relayed by the network of Ether Spiders.
[Heart of the North] only does one thing, which is to process data requests from the thick spiritual fiber connecting the Ether Spider to itself and return the results.
That is to say, it only needs to maintain a connection with the Ether Spider and only needs to process the information packets from the Ether Spider.
It no longer cares about how many keys there are in the world. In this way, the active connections that [Heart of the North] needs to maintain are instantly reduced from "n (number of users)" to "1", that is, the connection to the Ether Spider.
Whether the number of users increases to 1,000 or 10,000, the energy consumption of [Heart of the North] will remain almost the same.
Huge pressure has been transferred from [Heart of the North] to the Aether Spider.
The talent of the Ether Spider is multi-threaded information processing, which is instinctive to it. There is no essential difference whether it manages the information flow of ten fibers or one hundred thousand fibers.
Another important layer of Ethernet architecture is the network layer, and the function provider is [Heart of the North].
At this level, [Heart of the North] mainly has two missions:
Assign a spiritual world coordinate generated based on the relative position of the key in the Ethernet spider network and its functional authority to each valid node in the Ethernet, that is, the key.
The coordinates of the spiritual world are called in the mage plane.
In Gothe's previous life, this spiritual world coordinate also had a familiar name: "IP address".
It functions like a house number, which can accurately locate every node in the Ethernet and ensure that information is not transmitted to the wrong target.
The second mission is routing.
All information must include the spiritual world coordinates of the source and target, and then be packaged into information packets, and then transmitted to the [Heart of the North] through the spiritual fiber network.
【Heart of the North】According to the request of the information packet, it performs addressing and retrieval in its knowledge base, and feeds it back to the Ether Spider through the routing table, accurately sending the information packet (request and response) from the source coordinates to the target coordinates, that is, "routing".
In this whole process, there were not many things happening to the Ether Spider.
It does not need to understand the meaning of coordinates in the spiritual world, nor does it need to understand the logic of the routing table.
It is only responsible for transmitting information packets along the designated fiber path according to the instructions given by [Heart of the North].
Ether spider does not produce information, it is just a transporter of information.
The third layer of Ethernet architecture is the transport layer.
· The function provider is [Heart of the North] and the key. The core task is to select different transmission methods based on the importance of the information. There are two main transmission methods:
· One is for important operations such as knowledge and information query, using a confirmation-retransmission mechanism. The receiving key must return a confirmation signal, otherwise [Heart of the North] will automatically resend the information packet until the confirmation signal is received.
This method can minimize the loss or damage of important information, achieve "breakpoint resume transmission", avoid packet loss, and ensure file integrity. Another transmission method is for information with high real-time requirements. It will be ignored when it is sent out, without the need for secondary confirmation, and the transmission will be completed directly to ensure that the information can arrive as soon as possible.
The last layer of architecture is the application layer.
That is the layer that the key owner, or user, has direct contact with.
At present, Amap has only two core functions planned for it: Wanwei and Lingxin!