
Service Gives Retailers Secure Payment
Networks
Improving security and lowering the costs of electronic
transactions are retailers' ultimate payment handling
goals. New Edge Networks is helping companies achieve
both.
Through a partnership with Chase Paymentech Solutions,
New Edge, Vancouver, Wash., a wholly owned subsidiary
of EarthLink, is helping retailers switch from dial-up
telephone connections to faster broadband networks
and gain end-to-end compliance with Payment Card
Industry (PCI) security standards. Businesses such
as gas stations whose PCI-compliant networks are
powered by New Edge can use the new Chase Paymentech
connections at no added cost.
"Private transport coupled with rock-solid
data encryption is a strong deterrence to bankcard
fraud" said Dan Moffat, president, New Edge.
"This translates to increased transaction volume
with peace of mind to merchants and their customers."
These connections save merchants the monthly communications
charge for maintaining their own separate connections
to payment processors. They also eliminate single
points of failure at the merchants' host locations
or corporate headquarters. The connections also
ensure bankcard transactions leave the store and
reach the payment processor privately, securely
and quickly, bypassing use of the Internet.