Platform products aid point-of-sale communications

A Performance Technologies product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Apr 20, 2005

Transaction Network Services is using Performance Technologies' Advanced Managed Platform products in its point-of-sale systems and services.

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is using Performance Technologies' Advanced Managed Platform products in its point-of-sale (POS) systems and services.

TNS is a leading provider of business-critical datacommunications services to processors of credit card, debit card and ATM transactions.

The company is using Performance Technologies' Advanced Managed Platform offering, together with the company's compute and UniPorte media and voice processing products, in its POS systems in order to provide fast, secure and reliable communication of data for the payment processing, acquiring and retail industries.

"Our datacommunications services enable secure and reliable transmission of time-sensitive, transaction-related information, critical to customers' operations", said Scott Ziegler, Senior Vice President and Chief Systems Officer of TNS.

"We chose to include Performance Technologies' Advanced Managed Platform and media products because they provide reliability and availability unobtainable by any similar competitive offering".

Performance Technologies' Advanced Managed Platform offering comprises the company's packet-based products and offers the most complete set of high availability, system management, switching, power and cooling features on the market.

When configured with the company's compute, media processing, I/O and software elements, the offering provides equipment manufacturers and system integrators the basis to handle the high performance computing requirements of next-generation systems and maintain their high standards of network availability.

"Our Advanced Managed Platform products were designed with companies like TNS in mind - companies providing business- and mission-critical solutions that cannot accept downtime", said Tony Romero, Platform Product Manager for Performance Technologies.

"With this unique product offering, we are able to provide today what other vendors are only promising for the future".