iSPAN is a secure electronic transaction carrier network. The iSPAN network service is a fully managed, cost-effective, easy to access Financial Transaction delivery network for moving real-time data such as financial transactions faster, reliably and more securely. iSPAN enables your operation to meet the changing demands of your customers in the area of Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale (“EFTPOS”).

As you and your customers demand more flexible, convenient and sophisticated payment services iSPAN provides the technology, highly skilled staff and innovation required to facilitate your business.

When subscribed to the iSPAN services, as financial acquirers and retailers you are able to leverage world class infrastructure, processes and expertise. Previously EFTPOS terminals for electronic payment suffered tremendously due to the nature of the networking technology implemented which heavily impacted the consumer confidence in utilizing electronic payment methods, hence many consumers refrain from using credit and debit cards to pay for their purchases.

With the introduction of iSPAN by iNET, those experiences are history, it is iNETs goal to increase and maintain successful transaction handling rates at optimal levels and provide quality customer services for merchants and acquirers. Connect your EFTPOS terminals or systems to iSPAN using any mediums, anywhere in the kingdom, any time and all the time.

The service is provided to customers in two flavors;

Always-On

This is a 24x7 always on connection living up to its name of always on. The service is more suitable to businesses that a very stable connection all the time of the business such as Super/hyper market or high volume retail business.

On Demand

This connects the customer with the transaction processing gateway as and when needed. Due to low volume transaction per day, this solution will establish the connection with the gateway only when required to complete the transaction, after which it will disconnect the call thus reducing cost to a great deal.

Fully Secure

iSPAN provides highly secure transaction delivery that ensures powerful 3DES encryption for end-to-end security. The network architecture supports message integrity, privacy and authentication.

High Speed

iSPAN is a high speed network that delivers, consistent, reliable and real-time performance. The network employs intelligent and optimal message routing that continuously ‘reads’ the underlying infrastructure to make routing decisions to get around congestions and outages.

Reliable & Available

iSPAN is a robust distributed network that provides an “Always-On” and “On Demand” service through a redundant and diverse design that has no single point of failure.

Fully Managed Service

iSPAN is a fully managed network with 24/7 monitoring and customer support, provided through iNET’s Network Operations Centre allowing organizations to focus on their business.

Simple, Rapid Service Deployment

iSPAN allows simple and rapid connectivity through either the On Demand service or Always On service that is available in select locations.

Application/Device Independent Connectivity

A simple communication interface whether an on Demand dial in access number or Always on Ethernet port is provided and easily integrated into transaction generating applications and devices to access iSPAN.

Cost-Effective
iSPAN saves organizations human resources and money through cost-effective deployment, delivery and maintenance compared to traditional legacy network infrastructures.

National Reach

iSPAN is a robust, distributed national network infrastructure that overlays many transport technologies through the use of geographically diverse locations and multiple carriers, thus providing a reliable and highly available network service that can be accessed from anywhere in the kingdom.

Rapid Provisioning

iSPAN provides extreme flexibility for end-users to be provisioned, activated and performing live production transactions within hours.

Legacy Device Migration

A series of conversion devices will allow for simple cost-effective connectivity solutions to enable current legacy devices to be iSPAN IP enabled while they be migrated to the new SPAN II host or physically replaced with EMV 1 & 2 Compliant devices.