As a merchant, you need fast, secure and reliable connections to credit card processors. New Edge's Direct Connect service gives you the advantage of private, redundant links to leading payment vendors such as First Data, Chase Paymentech and American Express. With direct transport of POS traffic to your payment processors, you'll reduce transaction times to as little as two seconds and reduce operating costs. And because New Edge is compliant with Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards, you and your customers can be assured that account information is protected.