Speed Test Tetra Devices
Overview
A merchant requested an analysis to see if a Lane/8000 is faster for contactless than a Lane/5000. The Lane/3000 and Lane/5000 are very similar in device form but is a little newer. The Lane/8000 is the top of the line Tetra-Platform device.
Test Conditions:
- Using a Core i7 5600U, cpubenchmark.net shows this to have a benchmark number of 3,016 (comparing against a Core i5-8500, the benchmark shows as 9,600, so the test computer is running much slower than the merchant’s computer)
- Use Lane/3000 running UPP 7.82.02; Lane/8000 running UPP 7.82.02
- Same Cashmate application between tests
- Start a transaction for $1.00 and start the credit card entry form. Cancel from the form after each restart of the BFCSignalRBridge service (ie, between configuration changes)
- Start the same transaction for $1.00
- Present a Test Contactless BAD card multiple times to get an average time
- Present a good contactless card to determine how fast a card can be read. A good card transaction will be cancelled and the test restarted
- Contactless read will be defined as the time the unit takes until the Beep is heard after the unit has completely finished all start sequences.
- Timing via stopwatch; When stop watch time is started, the card is presented to the contactless reader; when beep is heard, the stopwatch is stopped
Results
Times shown are all in seconds.
| Test | Bad Contactless Read | Average Bad Read | Good Contactless Read | Average Good Read |
| Load time to Waiting for Customer | 5.85, 6.0, 5.83, 6.01 | 5.92 seconds | ||
| Lane 3000 USB to Contactless Beep | 4.4, 4.8, 3.6 | 4.27 seconds | 3.40, 3.86, 3.41, 3.33 | 3.5 seconds |
| Lane 8000 USB to Contactless Beep | 4.56, 4, 4.22 | 4.26 seconds | 3.8, 3.34, 3.31 | 3.38 seconds |
| Lane 3000 via Network Interface | 3.93, 3.58, 3.70, 3.58 | 3.70 seconds | 3.42, 3.42, 3.18 | 3.34 seconds |
| Lane 8000 via Network Interface | 4.31, 3.65, 4.36 | 4.11 seconds | 3.48, 3.60, 3.26, 3 | 3.34 seconds |
Conclusions
Comparing the speed of Contactless reads between the 8000 and 3000 (which is close to the 5000), it appears on a good read that they are about the same speed in returning a result. The speed does improve slightly when we are using a network communication instead of the USB.
According to their data sheets (Ingenico.us), the different terminals have the following CPU processor installed:
Lane/8000 CPU: Cortex A5, 64 bits; 512 MB of Flash memory, 512 MB of RAM
Lane/3000 CPU: Cortex A5, 64 bits; 256 MB of Flash memory, 128 MB of RAM
Lane/5000 CPU: Cortex A5; 512 MB of Flash memory, 512 MB of RAM
None specify the contactless hardware in their data sheets (in case there is a different contactless reader component in there).