The Goddess Shines on America

Today is an extremely important day for British Telecom, not because Alice Wang is investing $50 million, nor is it because of a surprise visit from Prince Charles, neither. It is Alice Wang, the founder of Cisco, under the recommendation of Prince Charles, it is really important to start cooperation between the two companies while investing in the company.

The same behavior, modified in different ways, can bring completely different meanings.

"Welcome, Your Royal Highness, your presence makes us feel radiant."

The capable brown hair is covered with thick hair oil, the BOSS suit is even a high-end suit bought temporarily yesterday, and the Patek Philippe on the left hand is only worn on the most important days. For today's meeting, the CEO of British Telecom, Barton Locke, took great pains, and the entire board of directors of the whole house did not do the same.

Standing at the door of the meeting room, the Crown Prince shook hands with Barton Locke who walked up first, and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Locke. The sales volume of the telecommunications company this year is very good. You must have broken the record again, right?"

"Of course." Locke puffed out his chest proudly: "Our turnover in the fourth quarter has increased by seven percentage points, and the annual turnover is 1.5 times that of last year. This is because..."

"It's still affected by that catastrophic Black Monday, otherwise it's definitely not seven percent, right, Mr. Locke."

Alice in a small white suit stepped forward and said to Charles with a smile, "Won't you introduce yourself?"

"Oh, how can I bother Your Highness the Crown Prince?" If Barton Locke didn't recognize the girl's identity, his eyes would have been eaten by a dog. He immediately bent down slightly, and when Alice raised her arm, he lightly tapped the back of her hand just right. A light kiss: "Mysterious girl, your name has long spread throughout the global IT industry. Ms. Wang from Cisco is really a beautiful operating system,"

In two short sentences, the two most valuable identities of the other party were presented. This flattery was not obvious, but Alice could only smile reluctantly. When the man, who was about her father's age, straightened up and made a gesture of invitation to Prince Charles, she rubbed her shirt vigorously where she had just been kissed.

Then, it was time for the guests to take their seats, and the entire board of directors of the British Telecom Group, with all 20 members, also took their seats.

"I won't say more about the extras."

After a couple of routine polite words, Alice said: "A 50 million shareholding is nothing, we all know this, time is limited, let's focus on talking about the potential cooperation space between you and Cisco."

It was really just a few polite words, Alice didn't even mention the plan to invest 50 million shares, so she skipped it on her own initiative. Such a maverick approach really stunned all the board members, even Barton Locke.

"Miss Wang, I think we should..."

"Dude," Alice interrupted him directly again, "you know I'm only fifteen years old, so you can save the adults' procedures, so we can all save trouble, right? The Crown Prince and I set off from Buckingham Palace early in the morning, but it turned out that I have been stuck in traffic on the street for quite a while, and you and I are wearing watches. It’s time to eat after a while. Let’s focus first, otherwise I really don’t have the heart to sit here, or you guys want to advance Dinner? But I really don't have enough appetite right now, what do you think?"

A series of words were spoken at a high speed, and many of the words were in completely spoken form. Alice blurted them out in an instant, so that no one had time to stop them.

Then, of course, there was a moment of wordless silence. Looking at the whole room, the smiling Alice proudly puffed out her chest, Prince Charles looked astonished, and the 20 members of the company's board of directors headed by Barton Locke looked completely uncomfortable.

"Ah, ahem!" In the end, the crown prince was the first to break the silence: "Alice is right, Locke, it's just a 50 million share purchase. If Alice wants to buy directly in the stock market, it's just a matter of a single order." .Let’s put this matter aside, let’s talk about Cisco.”

With his beginning, Barton-Lock also became active, and immediately nodded with a smile: "Then since the crown prince has decided this way, let's do it. Everyone, let's talk to Alice about the cooperation with Cisco first." , what do you say?"

She still has to go through the procedures until now. Alice is really speechless about the stereotyped and old-fashioned way of doing things of these typical British people.

Fortunately, the bloody situation of several votes in the House of Representatives did not happen after all. On the premise that there was no need for further discussion, a new topic was opened by Alice again.

However, it was Barton Locke's side who had to introduce themselves first.

"It's no exaggeration to say that our British Telecom company is the world's top telecom operator. I believe Ms. Wang also understands."

Locke said proudly: "Our main business includes long-distance calls in the UK and international telecommunications services. It is no exaggeration to say that more than 90% of home users in the country use our lines."

"But at the same time," Alice casually took the words: "You guys have made mediocre achievements in the emerging mobile phone industry. The company does have a mobile communication department, but the pressure of competition is very high. A subsidiary of Rakal Electronics Co., Ltd., Although Recal Telecom became independent in 1985, its strength has grown at an astonishing rate, and it will even go public next year, am I right?"

After receiving the words, she was telling the truth. When Alice said this, many members of the board of directors couldn't help the corners of their eyes twitching. Even the crown prince frowned at the irritation of her bold speech. Button-Lock's expression also looked like he had swallowed a fly. For a good moment, he tried his best to digest it quickly.

"Indeed...so," he said as if squeezing toothpaste, "It seems that Ms. Wang has been thinking about our investment and cooperation for a long time. Then please introduce, what benefits can Cisco bring to us? "

The situation was indeed a bit delicate, and the crown prince was watching from the sidelines, observing various changes in the details of the normal meeting as a pure outsider.

First of all, it is certain that Cisco is not in a hurry to cooperate with British Telecom.

This company is about to go public, and the buzzy IPO has been published in the Wall Street Journal for several days. In the current "post-crash" period, its listing is destined to make a lot of money. Regardless of its status as an absolute leader and pioneer in the Internet hardware industry, just the recent news of its cooperation with Lucent Technology, the number two in the industry, is enough for it to sell at a good price at the opening.

Therefore, its cooperation with British Telecom is really just icing on the cake.

But what about BT?

"We can open up a new field together, which is network infrastructure."

Let me tell the truth first, Alice explained in detail: "As we all know, the current means of network connection is telephone dial-up, and the network uses telephone lines. Its overall process is that the user has a personal computer, an external or built-in modem , and then—in the past, it used to rely on a very expensive special-purpose computer from IBM as the medium, but now it only needs to use a router—add a telephone line, and then dial the access number provided by the provider to achieve the purpose of surfing the Internet.”

"I have a new patent now. Yes, Mr. Baker, ah, sorry Mr. Locke, I have applied for this patent not long ago, and now the result has come down."

Having said that, Alice suddenly stopped, and then took a sip of tea without haste, and put on a posture of savoring life. How can this make the people on the company side happy? Before Barton Locke could even open his mouth, according to the introduction, Chad, the man who is the director of the technical department, couldn't bear it anymore.

"New technology? Is it the same nature as your router back then?"

This question was very insightful, and Prince Charles, who was on the sidelines, immediately analyzed it.

For routers, Alice established Cisco based on this patent in 1984. Its cheap network access method even directly accelerated the infrastructure laying speed of US operators, not to mention replacing the original expensive substitute. So now, since she first mentioned the current way of surfing the Internet, isn't this so-called new patent just...

"This patent uses frequency division multiplexing technology to divide ordinary telephone lines into three relatively independent channels: telephone, uplink and downlink, thereby avoiding mutual interference. Therefore, users can surf the Internet while making calls without Worried about the decline in Internet speed and call quality."

One sentence is a new world, and Alice's explanation is not over yet: "Theoretically, this patent can provide a maximum uplink rate of 1Mbps on a pair of twisted-pair copper cables within a range of five kilometers. , and a maximum downlink rate of 8Mbps, and can provide voice and data services at the same time."

After finishing the series of words, Alice sipped the tea again, and with a look of enjoying life, she gave all the directors ample time to digest and absorb.

"Mpbs," said Chad, the director of the technical department after a while: "Million-bits-per-second, this is indeed a very amazing rate. Ms. Wang, are you sure that the medium is still copper twisted pair? It has not been replaced by optical fiber. That unreliable thing?"

Fiber is unreliable?

Alice smiled wryly, but the thinking of these British guys is also correct. Although optical fiber has entered the stage where it can be used for telephone communication a few years ago, it is still far away from real commercialization, let alone the level of network communication.

"That's right, Mr. Chad, it's still twisted-pair copper cables. We only need to use a new technology to achieve the effect I mentioned above. So in particular, just imagine the market space after the cooperation. I believe it will definitely It won't be small."

Seeing how the directors tried their best to conceal their true feelings, Alice smiled with satisfaction.