Chapter 596

Without lack of funds, the speed of iridium's satellite network and ground network is amazing. The backbone network in the eastern region has connected most of the large and medium-sized cities, and began to extend to neighboring Canada, while the network construction in the western region is also in progress. Iridium is optimistic that the national network will be officially linked within a year.

Although the national network has not yet been built, many large financial institutions have begun to use iridium's services to change the traditional trading mode in the New York area where iridium first operated, especially in the Wall Street area where large financial institutions gathered. The programmed trading system, which was first developed by the Bank of Columbia and invited by IBM, was also taken as the latest product by IBM and began to be sold to Goldman Sachs and other large investment institutions.

In just a few months, electronic trading has set off a wave in the financial sector of the United States, and the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Stock Exchange have also adopted electronic trading platforms. But so far, the electronic trading platform is still very primitive, and most of its functions are focused on moving the information and trading of the exchange to the office. This is essentially different from the high frequency trading system developed by Xie liaosha.

Xie liaosha's high-frequency trading system is a set of system completely controlled by computer. He needs to quickly find out the low selling orders and the high paying orders in the vast amount of trading data, and make a deal before the transactions of other financial institutions. This requires a huge amount of calculation and robust trading system as support. For the Bank of Columbia, the talent reserve and financing capacity of Mr. seryotha are far from comparable to the five major investment banks that have been established for nearly a century. Although the cash reserve of Mr. seryosha is amazing, as long as financial institutions like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley need it, they can get capital injection from the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve every minute, What's more, they also have a lot of money sent to them by the rich all over the world. This is not something that bank of Columbia can catch up with in the short term. Therefore, the cheating artifact of high-frequency trading has become the capital that Xie liaosha relies on for his foothold on Wall Street.

To achieve high-frequency trading, it puts forward high requirements for the computing speed of computer and the transmission speed of network service providers. In fact, there are many similar trading techniques, such as flash trading. Even Xie liaosha knows something about dark pool trading, which is specially designed for high-frequency trading. However, as a pioneer in the market, Xie liaosha has no precedent to follow. Most of his work needs to start from scratch.

Responsible for the development plan are the most capable programmers drawn from Yota communications, each of whom has signed a valuable confidentiality agreement. The development of the whole system will redesign and transform the IBM System in many aspects, such as network transmission, operation efficiency, and trading strategy.

The person in charge of this project reports the progress of development to EVA almost every day. At the same time, with the continuous launch of iridium, EVA has become the leader of American technology and commerce. Now I don't know how many investment institutions are waiting in line downstairs of EVA's office every day. I hope to get a chance to invest in iridium, which is quite different from EVA's visit to these capitalists six months ago.

Although iridium is still in the early stage of construction and the network in North America is still under test, consumers can't wait to try the convenience of satellite communication. A lot of people went to iridium and at & T websites early to book satellite calls. The popularity of its sales has even become the most popular topic in the society.

Originally, EVA selected only Kyocera and Sony as iridium phone manufacturers. However, with the appeal and matchmaking of US President Reagan, EVA and Motorola have settled their differences, and Motorola has become the third agent of iridium terminal equipment. However, EVA hopes to further expand the scope of iridium standard satellite phone authorization after the completion of iridium network, and bring more manufacturers into iridium camp.

Iridium company is constantly attracting powerful partners all over the world, which also ensures that iridium company has always maintained a leading position in the competition. However, the problems of local operators make iridium unable to open up the situation in Europe. Because EVA also faces the same problem that Karim and Donia have to face in the process of acquiring Volkswagen, that is, the trade protectionism insisted by European conservative forces.

Now it seems that there is a general tendency of conservatism rising in Europe. Even Germany, which has the best economic situation on the European continent, still has harsh market access conditions for foreign investment. If EVA's iridium company wants to promote its business in Europe, it will face the counterattack of telecom operators in almost all western European countries. How can it break this situation, It's going to be a new challenge for EVA.

However, the advantage is that EVA is not the only shareholder of iridium. Many directors on the board of directors come from different countries and industries. If they want to seize the market, the Japanese are definitely the most experienced in this field. However, the directors sent by Goldman Sachs provided EVA with a new way of thinking.

"Why don't you try to lobby NATO headquarters? We are already the satellite communication supplier of the Ministry of defense. If the European allies don't adopt our solution, how can we unify the satellite communication system?" The directors of Goldman Sachs advised EVA.

"Is it possible that such a good thing will fall on us?" EVA asked in disbelief.

"Don't worry! If they don't want to use the iridium system, they will have to pay to rebuild a military satellite communication system compatible with the iridium system. Do you think they are willing to pay for it? " Asked Goldman's directors.

"Well, that's OK. How can we talk about this business with NATO?" EVA asked again.

"I know you don't have experience in this kind of thing, but you forget that you are Lockheed's biggest partner besides the Department of defense. They are arms companies, and they deal with the top management of NATO. I think you can use their contacts to go around Europe and see if you can get something! " Goldman's directors said enthusiastically.

"This is really a good way. I never thought that iridium's early customers were all from the military. It's very rewarding to talk with you!" EVA said from the bottom of her heart.

"Ms. EVA, in fact, Motorola hopes to be the sole agent for the military's satellite phone orders. You know, this kind of thing is not suitable for Japanese manufacturing!" Goldman's directors ended up with a euphemism.