Product: Multilane Optimum L4200 and L4250 terminals
Company: Hypercom Corp.

All payment terminals sold in North America after Dec. 31, 2007, must be both PCI and PED compliant. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) applies to devices used for credit and signature debit transactions, and PED applies for PIN entry devices.

Merchants using non-compliant terminals purchased before this date will have several years' leeway to meet the standards.

Hypercom, however, is bringing compliant hardware to merchants now, so they won't have to rush to meet the deadline or need to upgrade again down the road just to meet the standards.

Hypercom already is rolling out new solutions for the multilane retail environment, which encompasses a wide variety of business, from supermarkets to hardware stores. A common denominator among these merchants is that often their electronic payment applications are integrated with larger POS checkout systems.

Merchants don't want to replace the whole enchilada just to change the sauce. Bringing a small part into compliance with two security regulations shouldn't warrant replacing the whole system. Hypercom's multilane solutions prevent this from happening.

The Optimum L4200 and L4250, both available now, are designed to hook up to merchants' existing servers and equipment (a grocery store's PC POS payment terminal, for example). Options include serial port, USB or Internet-protocol connectivity as well as a host USB port for peripheral devices.

The monochrome L4200 and greyscale L4250 terminals are lower cost versions of the full-color L4100 released last year, also for the multilane environment. The L4200 is a less expensive version of the 4250. The primary differences between the two are the higher screen resolution and signature capture capabilities in the L4250.

Both terminals also come with the option to integrate contactless payment readers and/or smart card readers.

Hypercom Corp.
602-504-5000
www.hypercom.com