Banksys Xentissimo, Product Manual

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Comm. Tower
Software download &
Terminal Management Server
Transaction
host
GSM provider
Figure 9 – GSM configuration
For a GPRS transaction, the data is sent to the communication tower from where
it’s transmitted over a data network, which might be the public Internet, to the
host. The protocol used is TCP/IP. We suggest that these transactions are secured,
from terminal to host, using SSL (Secure Socket Layer).
Figure 10 – GPRS configuration
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Comm. Tower
Data
network
TCP/IP
Software download &
Terminal Management Server
Transaction
host
TCP/IP
TCP/IP
TCP/IP
SSL
The GSM/GPRS interface has the following main specifications:
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GSM supports communication speeds of up to 14.400 bps, via the GSM
V.110 data or analogue data protocol;
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GPRS class 10 supports data rates of up to 85.600 bps in download mode
(from host to XENTISSIMO) and 42.800 bps in upload mode (from
XENTISSIMO to host);
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Full roaming service;
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SMS capability: XENTISSIMO can send and receive messages of maximum
160 alphanumeric characters;
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