Ask any banker what is the ultimate level of service that banks can offer. The answer is easy - an ATM network that is always operational! Any time, day or night, your customers count on your ATMs for funds transfer, deposits, cash withdrawals, and verification of account balances.

VSAT networks offer superior network availability - up to 99.9% at high throughput levels to insure that your customers always have ATM access. The VSAT network is reliable; your customers’ data is transmitted precisely and securely.

VSATs offer a single platform solution or all banking applications. Add your teller services and EBT applications. Support bank branch automation.

In particular, VSAT networks are ideally suited to support bank growth and Anywhere acquisitions. Opening a new bank site? Acquiring another bank - perhaps in other regions? It’s quick and easy to add sites they are! Best of all - it takes only one call; no need to deal with multiple vendors.

Adding investment services? Use a broadcast video overlay to your VSAT network and train your staff to sell them.

Applications

ATM

Teller Services

Branch Bank Automation

Transaction Support File/Software

Updates Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)

Employee Training

Benefits

Superior Availability

Single Platform for Multiple Applications

Easy Installation

Supports Growth/Acquisition

Quick ATM Response

Full Time Connectivity

Trained Staff

ISDN

Some of the characteristics that distinguish ISDN are:

It builds on groups of standard transmission channels. Bearer channels (or B channels) transmit user information at relatively high speeds, while separate Delta channels (or D channels) carry call setup, signaling and other information.

It handles all types of information. Unlike some other digital communications technologies, ISDN handles all types of information: voice, data, studio-quality sound, still and moving images. They are all digitized, and transmitted at high speeds in the same flow of data.

It handles many devices and many telephone numbers on the same line. Up to eight separate telephones, fax machines or computers can be linked to a single ISDN connection, and have up to 64 "call appearances" of the same or different telephone numbers.

It supports up to three calls at the same time. Two voice, fax or PC "conversations," and one data "conversation" can take place at the same tie, through the same ISDN connection. "Always On/Dynamic ISDN" (see chapter "ISDN and the Power of Packet Switching") will enable the three channels to work powerfully and efficiently together, providing the best matched channel to the application at hand, improving efficiency and lowering costs.

It offers variable, responsive transmission speeds. Two or more channels can be combined into a single larger transmission "pipe". Channels can be assembled as needed for a specific application (a large videoconference, for example), and then broken down and reassembled into different groups for other applications (normal voice or data transmissions). Combining B channels in this manner is called inverse multiplexing, or bonding.

It uses switched digital connections. Perhaps the most important single feature of ISDN, however, is that it offers inexpensive dialed digital access to the worldwide telecommunications network. It is no longer necessary to lease costly dedicated lines for high-speed digital transmission, or to limit data speed and accuracy by using modems to convert digital signals to analog pulses.

The Spectrum of Digital Technologies

ISDN is, in fact, one of a number of emerging technologies designed to exploit the power of the worldwide digital communications network. These technologies include Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay (all designed for high-speed network access through dedicated, leased lines) as well as ISDN and Switched 56 services (which offer both dedicated and dialed access).

The Unique Value of ISDN

To many users, especially individuals and those in smaller companies, ISDN is by far the most important of these technologies. To literally millions of users, it offers inexpensive dialed service, high-speed data transmission, and the ability to send and receive voice, data, still and moving images through the same fully digital connections. It is also based on communications standards accepted throughout the world, which means that high-speed data connections to most of the major business centers of Europe and the Pacific Rim can now be set up with a simple dialed call.