United Fashions of Texas Deploys Netifice VPN Service to Streamline Data Communications for Its 80 Stores; High-Performance VPN Services Deliver Superior Reliability for Point-of-Sale and Credit Card Processing

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Netifice Communications, Inc., a leading provider of Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions and other managed IP services to businesses worldwide, today announced that United Fashions of Texas (UFOT) is deploying Netifice Retail Connect VPN to streamline data communications between headquarters and its 80 stores. UFOT is using Netifice to deliver a high performance, reliable infrastructure to support point-of-sale, credit card processing and network printing applications that are critical to store management.

"As UFOT continues to expand, we require a reliable, high performance VPN service that allows us to better manage our store inventories and roll out new applications," said Steven Trout, Network Administrator at United Fashions of Texas. "Netifice enables us to deploy essential applications, while reducing our IT management issues with its fully managed services. The company provides one simple, centrally managed solution, so that UFOT only needs to deal with one vendor."

UFOT is using Netifice's reliable, always-on VPN services to support all of its data communication, including its point-of-sale application, between its stores and headquarters. Previously, the company used dial-up connections to support its systems, but the low performance was limiting the efficiency of its systems and hindering productivity. Now, the company's point-of-sale application can be easily updated by each store every evening.

"By using 4 modems, it was taking up to eight hours to complete our updates and costing too much in long distance," said Trout. "As the company grows, we need to reduce the time window and increase our network flexibility to easily download pertinent information in a timely manner. Netifice has drastically improved our ability to poll stores for up-to-the minute information."

Netifice also provides UFOT with credit card processing capabilities, increasing reliability and decreasing the cost of transactions. Netifice provides a redundant solution for supporting all communication between store credit card machines and the credit card processors, which also reduces approval times down to approximately two seconds.

"Companies turn to Netifice to support their business critical applications with our leading VPN services," said Stafford Brown, Vice President of Sales at Netifice Communications. "UFOT's migration to broadband for all of its stores promises to enable increased management capabilities and the implementation of innovative applications throughout its stores. This would be unattainable without the performance, reliability and security, combined with complete management, offered by Netifice."

Netifice's leading VPN services are already enabling UFOT to significantly reduce costs, essentially allowing Netifice to pay for itself. The company is saving money on credit card processing because of the discounts credit card companies provide to retailers to use secure broadband to support card processing. In addition, Netifice allows UFOT to not only eliminate redundant phone lines, but also all of the long distance charges incurred to poll all of its stores on a nightly basis.

Netifice Solutions

Netifice delivers the most flexible IP VPNs available, enabling businesses to integrate all of their mission-critical applications onto a single secure and scalable network platform that spans the entire enterprise. Netifice can tailor a solution that is cost-effective and fits its customers' specific requirements -- whether they need to run performance-sensitive applications between the corporate headquarters and branch offices via the Netifice MPLS fiber optic network, or extend their infrastructure to include numerous other carrier networks, increasing their reach to thousands of remote users and retail sites via broadband, wireless, satellite and global dial access.

Netifice Communications, Inc.

Netifice Communications is a global provider of flexible IP VPN solutions that enable businesses to lower costs, increase scalability and expand the deployment of enterprise applications and communication systems. Netifice customizes its clients IP VPNs using the widest selection of access, security and communication options, combined with advanced systems for managing and monitoring their IP VPN. Customers can easily deploy expansive networks so that their corporate headquarters, regional offices, remote workers, and retail outlets can communicate with each other as if they were in the same location. Netifice is recognized by customers for delivering the highest quality service and support with industry-leading Service Level Agreements that guarantee site-to-site performance and reliability. For more information, go to www.netifice.com or call 1-877-NETIFICE (638-4342).

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