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United Kingdom: Value retailer to upgrade to 20Mb broadband network.


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A national budget retail chain has announced plans to upgrade its Vodat International broadband broadband

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Instore, which trades under the Instore and Poundstretcher brand names, is making the move to cope with increased application demands over its wide area network, reports Retail Week.

Up until now, the group's 335 stores have received 512Kb per second broadband, but this will increase to 20Mb when the upgrade is complete.

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 Jonty McNea, Senior Network Analyst at Poundstretcher, the move is essential to support a new single retail system from warehouse to point of sale to be rolled out during 2010.

He told the news provider that the firm is to move to real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example.  stock files, replacing its batch stock information update processes.

Meanwhile, the group will use its enhanced network connection to introduce an additional back-up circuit, in a bid to ensure card transactions can be accepted at all times.

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