Netopia, VeriFone Take Merchant POS Networks Wireless

Netopia, Inc., a market leader in broadband gateways and service delivery software, announced that its industry-leading Wi-Fi gateways have been fully tested and qualified to interoperate with the Omni 3750 and Vx 610 wireless payment solutions from VeriFone, Inc. Todays retail merchants are embracing the use of broadband access creating high-speed merchant IP networks to speed up payment processing and enable a plethora of business-enabling applications. As part of this transition, wireless networks offer important cost and usability benefits to retailers, from being able to add new equipment without additional wiring to setting up check-out kiosks anywhere in the store. VeriFone provides a broad selection of wireless payment solutions that work with both Wi-Fi and CDMA cellular networks. Netopias Wi-Fi gateways, which feature 3-D Reach(TM) Wi-Fi for superior wireless range, coverage, and performance and VGx(TM) Virtual Gateway technology for improved broadband service quality, have been tested to be fully interoperable with VeriFone Terminals.