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High-street homewares and furnishings retailer The Pier recently deployed Sarian's mobile routing technology to provide back-up connections to support online chip-and-pin transactions at all 35 of its stores. The nationwide rollout involved equipping each of The Pier's outlets with Sarian HR4110 routers, which provide back-up data communications links over new high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) mobile networks. Alex Meek, head of information systems at The Pier, tells us about the project.