"EchoSat Communications Secure Payment Gateway (SPG) provides [image-nocss] an excellent communications solution supporting Clark's credit-card programs, which we now make available to the unbranded market. The EchoSat SPG team works hard everyday to ensure our customers have the most reliable POS communications available. The Clark program, in combination with EchoSat's PCI compliant Internet communication solution, is easily deployable, cost-effective and highly secure. Operators who want to remain independent of a brand identity can now have the same fast EchoSat SPG network that is utilized by larger chains, while enjoying economical flat-rate service pricing," said Karl Goodhouse, president of Clark Brands.
"The Clark-EchoSat program is highly packaged as a plug-and-play transaction transport solution that drops right into any end-user store environment," Lee Rutherford, EchoSat's CEO said. "The EchoSat-Clark SPG service continuously monitors, protects and insulates the POS functions from the rest of the store network environment, thereby helping to increase store-level security while vastly reducing the implementation complexity and ensuring a fully secure network environment for card operations."
Clark Brands, Naperville, Ill., owns the Clark family of brands. The company licenses the Clark gasoline brand and the Four Corners Coffee Brand to independent petroleum marketers and retailers in 17 states.
EchoSat, a division of The Tower Group, Lexington, Ky., is a supplier of secure data communications services for c-store, petroleum, retail, utility and grocery markets. It provides PCI compliant EFT transaction transport solutions to multiple end-points over broadband Internet with EchoSat's Secure Payment Gateway (SPG). EchoSat also provides broadband IP satellite services to areas not covered by traditional terrestrial broadband services and for out-of-band business continuity connectivity. EchoSat delivers modular service packages, as well as value-added custom communication solutions, in the United States and other countries.
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