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Navatec's Real Net is fast becoming a reality

The Real Net is a private network which can only be accessed using a Navatec Voyager (NV). According to a brief in the Navatec Voyager online Technical Center, the benefits of the Real Net include security, spam-free text and mail communications and a virus free environment.

Each user is a known and identifiable individual

All NVs are unique and registered to specific users. Because NV supports server-based online services it is possible, in many cases to adapt functionality according to individual needs, an impossibility with conventional PC-based programs.

Broad objective of the Real Net

The objective of the Real Net is to bring online services and global communications to users at the lowest cost feasible. Indeed, the name Real Net originates in the real incomes impact of this philosophy. The Real Net aims to deliver more useful tools to assist people in their business for a given outlay. Essentially, the Real Net levers people's purchasing power upwards by increasing their service purchasing power and thereby increases their real income.

Business advice

Part of our support for users will be an extension service, curently being organised, which will provide business advice to people on how to use Real Net services to achieve better business performance in terms of:

product & service quality
cost control & reduction
competitive but profitable pricing
market penetration & growth
higher real incomes

We consider an active "know how" and "know how to do" extension service to be an essential part of our responsibility in assisting our customers make the best use of leading edge Information Technology.

Threats to Enterprise Security

From IDC Study 2005, 606 respondents.

Keeping costs down

In order to achieve a cost-effective operation a lot of technical design work goes into conventional systems engineeering economics design tasks to achieve such things as a more efficient use of servers or minimization of use of bandwidth consumption.Unfortunately a considerable amount of disruption and rising costs relate to instabilities in data flow in some remove networks and trunks, spam, mala-ware, viruses and other malicious agents. Managing the exclusion of such phenomena is part of the business of delivering the Real Net on a global basis. A successful running of the Real Net and its services depends on users observing practices which help to uphold the rights of other users to remain free from unwanted communications and malicious attacks.

Protecting users through rules & technology

The battle against malicious agents and spam involves the use of technical weapons as well as applying rules and regulations which are enforced with a view to protecting all users of the Real Net.

Handling bad practice

A network security system called Navatrac stores all Real Net transactions for three days and then this information "falls off" the system. If any user complains about spam or communications which they find offensive then Navatrac will identify from which NV this traffic originated and will contact the registered owner with advice to stop. If the activity does not stop immediately, Navatrac administration will suspend the operation of the NV until the registered owner contacts NV customer relations. Unless the user concerned undertakes to refrain from such activity in the future, their account will be suspended without compensation. Naturally if they promise to refrain from such activity but in practice fail to do so their account will be suspended without compensation.

The Real Net's Economic Development Role

The Real Net has a fundamental economic development role, especially in stimulating growth in low income and remote communities

Real Net terrestrial radio networks can extend single broadband links to very remote areas with no current Internet access thereby bringing the full range of benefits to remote, and often low income, communities. Navatec.Com has ongoing service agreements with several community broadband operators such as USCommunityBB.Com

This very strict best practice rule,backed up by an effective transaction tracking system, helps protect other users from unwanted contacts and malicious activity. On the other hand the Real Net has a range of technical devices to prevent the entry of malicious agents and the unauthorised use of NVs. Such techniques are proprietary and not in the public domain so as to protect users of the Real Net.

Copying a waste of time

NVs can be copied but copies will be detected by Navatrac and the registered owner contacted requesting that they remove one of the copies. Again, failure to do so will result in suspension of account without compensation. There is little sense in copying NVs because they lock on to user accounts and this condition is "hard wired" into each NV.