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Retail IT services

Q: How do you keep POS online during a carrier outage?

Active-active SD-WAN with policy-based routing across two or more uplinks of different types (fiber + fixed wireless or LTE/5G). When one degrades, payment traffic shifts in seconds and the till keeps printing receipts.

Q: Will you take us through a PCI DSS 4.0.1 audit?

We'll work alongside your QSA, prepare the segmentation documentation, run scoping interviews, and address findings ahead of assessment. We don't replace the auditor; we make their job take days, not weeks.

Q: How fast can you stand up a new store?

With templated configs and pre-staged hardware, a new store typically goes live in a single visit, usually under four hours of on-site work, with the rest done remotely. We document the steps so your operations team can run subsequent openings.

Stores lose money the moment the network blinks. We design retail networks for active-active failover, scope payment traffic to keep PCI footprint small, and standardize the configurations so every new location goes up the same way.

What we see breaking first

The operational headaches buyers in retail routinely describe to us. If two or more of these sound familiar, the rest of this page is worth reading.

Single-circuit stores that go offline whenever the carrier hiccups

Sprawling PCI scope because POS, back-office, and guest Wi-Fi share a flat network

Each new location takes a person on-site for two days because nothing is templated

Camera and IoT traffic competing with payment for bandwidth at peak

Inventory and ordering systems that fall behind real-time demand

What we do for retail

POS uptime as a contracted SLA

Active-active SD-WAN blending fiber, fixed wireless, and cellular so a single carrier failure stays invisible to the till.

Tight PCI DSS 4.0.1 segmentation

Payment traffic isolated to a small, well-defined zone with documented controls, keeping audit scope and cost down. The 51 future-dated v4.x requirements went mandatory 31 March 2025, and we have been operating under them since.

Store-in-a-box deployment standards

Templated configs, pre-staged hardware, and a one-page bring-up runbook so a new store opens without sending a senior engineer onsite.

Guest Wi-Fi without compromising operations

Bandwidth-managed guest SSIDs, captive portal, and operational separation so a streaming customer never slows checkout.

Operational visibility per store

Dashboards that show per-store link health, POS reachability, and current carrier path, so a regional manager and HQ both see the same truth.

Frameworks & regulations that come up

We map controls and gather evidence against the frameworks your industry actually uses. Working alongside your auditor or assessor, never replacing them.

PCI DSS 4.0.1

Current standard since June 2024, with the 51 future-dated v4.x requirements (e-skimming controls, SBOM-adjacent expectations, expanded logging) mandatory as of 31 March 2025. Segmentation, logging, MFA on admin access, and quarterly scans, mapped and documented so QSAs sign off without churn.

State privacy laws (CCPA, FL Privacy Act)

Consumer data handling, retention, and breach notification posture documented at the network and identity layer.

Engagements like this

Real engagements with the situation, the build, and what changed afterward.

Multi-site retail · Networking & Connectivity

Multi-Hub SD-WAN for a 15-Site Retail Chain

Active-active SD-WAN across 15 stores, with multi-path failover that keeps point-of-sale, inventory, and IP cameras online when any single circuit drops.

Sites brought online

< 30s

Failover time on circuit drop

99.95%

POS uptime target

Services we lead with for retail

Common questions in retail

How do you keep POS online during a carrier outage?