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Jackson-Hewitt Franchisee
Speeds Retail Site
Deployment with Cradlepoint
MBR1000 Broadband Router Helps Reduce Set Up Time
from Weeks to One Hour
SITUATION
During tax season, Jackson-Hewitt of northern Georgia offers tax preparation services
in retail locations like Wal-mart and K-mart. They set up temporary kiosks in these
retail locations that require Internet access and phone service.
CHALLENGE
Provisioning broadband DSL line and phone lines every tax season was costly, time-
consuming and frustrating. Just ask Jackson-Hewitt franchise owner John Beazle.
"Have you ever tried to get a DSL line into a Wal-mart?" he asks with a laugh.
Beazle detailed some of the difficulties:
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Because Beazle's Jackson-Hewitt offices cover considerable territory in northern
Georgia, he must coordinate with 4 different phone companies to provision the 5
different store locations his kiosks are in
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There is a 5-10 day wait for the different phone companies to send field
technicians to the retail sites
The CradlePoint MBR1000 instantly creates a Wi-Fi
hotspot that any Wi-Fi enabled device can connect
to—laptop, camera, PDA, etc. The MBR1000 connects
devices to the Internet in two ways: via 3G mobile
broadband using an EVDO or USB air card, providing
high-speed web access virtually anywhere. Or it can also
be plugged into a DSL or cable modem.
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