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Lifestyle Retail Chain: Network Upgrade, POS and In-Store Processor Project

Effective data communications can have a significant impact on a retailer’s ability to manage sales, inventory and reporting. When a leading lifestyle retailer needed to upgrade its back-end systems to support enhanced data management, Direct Source, Inc. got the call.
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Big Box Retailer: Ethernet Everywhere

As part of a nationwide standardization process, a big box retail chain in the United States recently migrated all of its stores to an Ethernet data-networking infrastructure. The analog to Ethernet migration helped create a larger communication pipeline for data and image transfer in high-definition security monitoring.
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Discount Clothing Retail Chain: Intrusion Detection Management Upgrade

After an unprecedented breach of security and customer identity theft, a major discount clothing retailer was forced to re-evaluate its local area network (LAN) and wireless security technology, or risk paying significant fines to its credit card partners for every week the system was non-compliant.
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Retail Farm and Ranch Supply Store: Technology Audit and Computer Replacement Project

A major retail farm and ranch store chain recently determined that it needed to complete an audit of its store technology systems. The audit was designed to create a baseline understanding of each store setup to support future technology rollouts.
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Big Box Retailer: Distribution Center Network Upgrade

For many big box retailers, the distribution center is the heart of an operation, managing the flow of goods coming in from vendors and going out to the stores. They are the foundation for the entire supply chain network and support up to hundreds of stores from one location.
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Big Box Retailer: Analog to IP-Video Conversion Project

Recently, a big box retail chain determined that it needed to bring its security system into the digital age. Having always been on the leading edge of technology adoption, the retailer decided to take advantage of its recent Ethernet network standardization to implement cutting-edge IPvideo surveillance in 1,700 United States stores.
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Retail Farm and Ranch Supply Store: POS Replacement Project

A major retail farm and ranch store chain in the United States recently needed to replace the ten-year-old POS systems at its registers and service desks to update old equipment and take advantage of new advanced application capabilities. While the systems were usable, the company primarily wanted to decrease its ongoing costs associated with hardware maintenance and legacy equipment breakdowns that were no longer covered under warranty.
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