The router seems to be no different from the light bulb. The situation is often the case: a router was bought home enabled later, most people will not take a second look, unless one day the router is broken ... ... is such an unknown hiding in the corner of the device, in the eyes of others it is Promising subversive object. Why? In the past few years, the smart progress of computers and mobile phones has been accelerating. Their appearance, interface and functions are moving faster and faster. This seems to be the same trend of electronic devices, but the trend is still somewhat different, for example, routers, the most significant increase in years seems to be only the transmission speed. "One day the router will have a revolution," Huang Dong told Sina Technology. Huang Dong, who served as Youku's vice president of potatoes technology, is now a member of Nutshell Electronics, and he is in charge of steering smart routers. Routers hiding what kind of opportunity to attract Huang Dong and shell? Answer this question, we must first look at the general trend of the world. For example, the aforementioned intelligent, smart phone shipments more than functional machines; the same time there is the tide of the mobile Internet, more and more traditional personal computers were replaced by the Tablet PC more and more. There may be multiple smartphones, tablets, but no PC in the future home. In the process, a vacuum appeared - more and more data like photos, movies, etc. seemed to be nowhere to be placed. "So there will definitely be a new thing that can replace the traditional PC storage capabilities," Huang Dong said that this device does not require monitors, keyboards, and can connect smart phones, tablet PCs, set-top boxes and many other devices. This new thing that must emerge is not necessarily unprecedented. The router is a ready candidate. Often, all devices connected to the Internet in a home are interconnected with routers, which are in the absolute center of the chain. Huang Dong believes that the router is eligible to become the "center of information, the center of connections, the center of enjoyment" in the home. At the same time, the router also has room for improvement. There is an important premise of whether a device can be intelligently rebuilt: with a central processing unit (CPU). Look at the various appliances in the entire family, it seems that with this condition is not much, and Huang Dong also Sina science and technology said: "My first thought is the router." In the husk, Huang Dong's business is actually independent of the original smart phone, smart watch, smart ring and other business systems, the future will also operate independently, but should continue the new GEAK brand. How? There are many paths from idea to reality. Huang Dong in the eyes of the existing smart router on the market, is still very early stage, some selling points and even policy risks. In fact, a similar product, Husk Electronics team a year ago has already made, but after several discussions, still do not feel disruptive, so there is no external release. Now what are the new ideas of husk and yellow winter? First, to make routers have more processing power, from the now popular single-core 400MHz clock speed, upgrade to dual-core, quad-core; larger storage space, memory from 16MB to upgrade to 1GB above, and storage space can even be increased to T level. But the question is, to what extent will this increase the price of a router? Huang Dong, for example, is now configured as a 1.6GHz clock speed CPU, 1GB of memory, 4GB of storage space, the cost is about 300 yuan, while the cost of routing functional modules in the tens of dollars. And the rule of thumb in the electronics industry is that as time goes by, rising costs continue to fall. Second, let the router run a smart operating system, install App applications. At present Huang Dong team is working with third-party partners to build a router-based intelligent platform environment. Third, let the router and cloud services closely. Cloud computing is a self-evident future, and Smart Shell, which Nutcracker Electronics is developing, is said to be ingeniously linked to cloud services. Huang Dong said that this area is precisely its own strengths, after all, few of his opponents "managed tens of thousands of servers and bandwidth on T". However, all of these are just part of the Huang Dong program, more ideas intended to be retained until the release of the product - that is, the fall of the shell electronics plan new conference. The future more functional products will become smart products, how to connect these devices, is a new opportunity. Huang Dong's mission to the team is: to get everything connected to the Internet so that they can communicate with each other. The future may just sit down on the couch, smart router has been the command of all appliances to provide the most needed service. "Or we should not call him a router, this is a newborn thing," Huang said. (Author: Meng Hong)