Banking Networks - EMC Satcom Technologies

The banking and financial sector requires a
secure and reliable communication
infrastructure to ensure operational
efficiency. With widely distributed branches,
local offices, and ATMs, often located in
remote areas lacking solid terrestrial
infrastructure, banking and financial
organizations are turning to their own
satellite-based private networks as a
preferred solution for connecting their
dispersed locations under one core platform.
EMC Satcom technologies’ SatLink
networks are an ideal solution for modern,
cost-effective banking infrastructure
requirements, meeting present-day needs
for expanding geographically, increasing
reliability and security of financial
transactions, and ensuring business
continuity and disaster recovery in
unforeseen network disruption scenarios.
Our VSATs can be installed in any location
worldwide to allow open, secure
communications with local branches, ATMs,
and central offices.
Offering strong support, customer service,
and IT personnel training, EMC Satcom has
been selected to design and implement
private banking infrastructures for regional
economic and financial institutions in Asia,
Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America,
for clients such as Lippo Bank, Alfalha bank,
Standard Trust Bank, Inland Bank, CEMAC’s
Central Bank, and Central Bank of Libya.
 Secure Banking Data Transfer and Encryption
 ATM Networks, Mobile Banking, & Point of Sale
 Payment Systems & International Banking
 Voice & Telephony
 Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
 Rapid Geographical Expansion
 BEAC in Africa (CEMAC’s Central Bank)
 Lippo Bank in Indonesia
 Alfalha bank
 Standard Trust Bank
 Inland Bank
 Central Bank of Libya
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To keep financial data confidential and safe for both front and back office applications, EMC
Satcom’s SatLink® products are designed to provide advanced security features that ensure data is
sent and maintained without disruption. This is critical in a back office environment for processing
credit cards, trading in financial markets, providing ATM services, and handling any other sensitive
data or voice traffic. The same applies on front office needs, such as for tellers/cashiers and ATM
applications.
SatLink networks are designed with built-in support for TRANSEC using AES-256 encryption on all
traffic over the satellite links, thereby providing a safe and fast environment for customers and
internal banking transactions.
Even if specialized security mechanisms are in place, EMC Satcom Technologies can provide an extra
layer of security to ensure that no data is compromised or keep secure transactions and sensitive
data transfers separate from less-sensitive, general communications.
SatLink Security Features
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The ability to expand a customer base and generate
new revenue streams smoothly and rapidly through
ATM and local branch additions is imperative to
enhancing market competitiveness in the banking
sector. EMC Satcom’s VSAT networks can be rapidilly
scaled to accommodate new secure links between
banks and ATMs, regardless of location. EMC Satcom
Technologies can also provide infrastructure for
interbank networking, allowing selected ATMs to
provide services on behalf of other banks, while
generating additional income for the host bank
through standard service charges.
SatLink networks are well-suited for the standard
protocols required by international payment systems,
can be integrated with specialized components, and
can be customized to enable new features as per
customer requirements.
Our trusted solutions have enabled usage of all types
of payment systems, including:
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Systems for check and wire clearance
Systems requiring high data rates
EFT networks
Debit & credit transactions
Interbank networks
Intra-office communications can be a major expense
in banking, where voice communication is critical to
continuity and enables faster service for customers.
To reduce this expense, EMC Satcom offers private
telephony networks that circumvent existing
telephony networks and high international call rates.
To ensure reliability and sound quality, the SatLink
system uses advanced features that prevent VoIP calls
from becoming compromised by other banking
communications.
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Satellite networks are an essential
element in disaster recovery
infrastructure for all major financial
institutions. Networks need to be
designed with support for both link
diversity and geographical diversity
in the siting of major data
processing and communications
facilities
to
circumvent
communication interruptions in the
event of a potential network
disruption.
SatLink networks provide an ideal
backup solution for business
continuity, with options for
EMC Satcom Technologies Backup Solution for Banking
redundancy in all components and
support for terrestrial and satellite
links. Advanced communications coding ensures very low error rates and higher layer protocols
ensure no data lost during transfers, ensuring business continuity through a component failure or
network disruption.
EMC Satcom Technologies Banking Networks Disaster Recovery Solution
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EMC Satcom Technologies offers specialized VSATs with mesh networking capability. This allows a
SatLink network to provide direct any-to-any communications between bank offices or branches,
reducing latency and maximizing bandwidth utilization. Mesh is well suited for voice traffic in
international operations, as well as in delay-sensitive data traffic.
BEAC (Banque des États de
l'Afrique Centrale or The Bank of
Central African States) is a large
central bank serving CEMAC
(Central African Economic and
Monetary
Community)
with
common currency for 6 countries –
Cameroon, Chad, Central African
Republic,
Equatorial
Guinea,
Gabon, and the Republic of Congo
– that needed secure and reliable
communications for their banking
infrastructure, as well as a private
telephony network for inter-office
communications.
EMC Satcom’s solution provided
connectivity to 20 offices in capitals
and less densely populated cities,
allowing
them
to
directly
communicate with each other and
with BEAC’s Paris operations.
Structured in a mesh topology, this
banking infrastructure allows for
direct branch-to-branch, branch-toHQ,
and
HQ-to-HQ
communication.
To
further
safeguard
confidential
data
transfers without disruption, EMC
VSAT Network Example: BEAC
Satcom implemented advanced
security
features,
a
robust
interbank network, and secured back-office applications.
Further back-office support for credit card processing, financial market trading, check and wire
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transfer clearances, and e-commerce were enabled by connecting every site to CEMAC’s centralized
payment system. For the front-office need of local branches and ATM applications, EMC Satcom
Technologies further connected each site to a number of commercial banks, enabling timely voice
and data transfers for bank managers, tellers, and cashiers. These commercial banks will in turn be
connected to an ATM network in future expansion plans.
With 20 offices in different countries long distances from each other, international voice calls
between offices had also become a major expense using traditional telephony. EMC Satcom
overcame this obstacle by offering a dedicated telephony channel for the day-to-day
communication requirements of banking branches and offices.
Lastly, to ensure business continuity critical to such a largely interconnected infrastructure, EMC
Satcom also provided geographical redundancy of BEAC’s primary hub in Yaounde by placing a
disaster recovery hub in Libreville. As both the primary and disaster recovery hubs are centralized,
each terminal site installation was also connected to each of the two hub sites, offering a
dependable system resistant to communication impediments.
With EMC Satcom's solution, BEAC not only reduced its communications costs considerably, but
also improved its infrastructure and created a more efficient and reliable service for its customers.
The SatLink® system is the industry leading DVB-RCS & RCS2 product line in both sales and technology
supporting DVB-S2 and DVB-S options for satellite networks. Optimized for IP networking with advanced
QoS features, it provides a complete solution for satellite internet applications, ISPs, private Intranets,
industry-specific networks, as well as voice and/or interactive video services over IP. The product line includes
several broadband VSAT modems and turnkey satellite hub system options which enable small, costeffective enterprise networks and large carrier networks.
EMC Satcom Technologies is a global satellite and terrestrial communications company specializing in
delivering mission-critical, network services, and satcom technology for international organizations in
several verticals including oil and gas, maritime, mobile network operators, carriers, governments, NGOs
and worldwide enterprises with locations in the most remote and/or challenging areas of the world.
EMC Satcom provides complete IP-based satellite network systems, under the SatLink brand, that follow the
DVB-RCS & RCS2 standards and operate in C, Ku, Ka, EHF, X, and other bands. EMC Satcom’s products and
services are in use globally and serve customers in diverse industries for a variety of IP-based applications.
Based in Raisting, Germany, EMC Satcom has offices in several worldwide locations for product
development, network services, and technical support.
EMC Satcom Technologies
Vollsveien 21 N-1366 | Lysaker, Norway
T +47 (67) 535 337 | F +47 (67) 535 335
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All specifications and features subject to change without notice. SatLink is a registered trademark of EMC Satcom Technologies.
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