For more than 20 years, Gaming Laboratories International has been the world leader in independent testing for the gaming industry. With 13 testing laboratories spread across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America, GLI is the only laboratory of its kind to hold both U.S. and International accreditations for compliance with ISO 17025 and 17020 standards for technical competence in testing and inspection services.

At G2E 2009, GLI’s booth #2356 will be directly in the center of the tradeshow floor, appropriate for a company that has been in the center of the industry for more than 20 years. In its booth, GLI will display its “Innovation Station,” where its proprietary inventions – GLIAccess, GLI Verify, Point. Click.Transfer. and the new GLIlink – will be on display.

GLIAccess is the driving force on the back-end of GLI’s website, gaminglabs.com, where regulators and suppliers can quickly and easily track and verify submissions and certifications. GLI Verify is a handheld tool regulators use in the field to verify that the games and systems operating on a casino floor have been tested and certified by the lab. Point. Click.Transfer. is an online application that allows suppliers to quickly and easily transfer previously tested and certified products into new jurisdictions around the world, literally with the click of a mouse.

On the Innovation Station at G2E 2009, GLI will unveil its amazing new GLIlink that brings global interoperability testing as close as the nearest lab.

Manufacturers, operators and regulators all have a vested interest in knowing that games and systems talk to each other correctly and give accurate reporting of casino activity. In fact, online connectivity of a gaming device to a casino host system is absolutely vital to ensure accurate transfer of information, including accounting and security events. As technology has advanced, and now that systems are providing electronic funds transfer and TITO, interoperability is more important than ever, and more and more jurisdictions are requiring this type of testing. But shipping devices and systems all over the world can be cumbersome, expensive and delay time to market. To solve that problem, GLI proudly introduces GLIlink, bringing worldwide interoperability testing to life.

GLI’s engineers have created GLIlink, a new proprietary technology that brings interoperability testing to a new global scale. GLIlink connects manufacturers’ products and operators’ systems online, and expands interoperability testing to every GLI lab. With GLIlink, interoperability testing can performed on any game with virtually any system from any GLI lab in any time zone. With GLIlink, now more than ever, GLI is local in focus and global in resources.

GLI prides itself on establishing complete testing centers, not just offices, and now GLIlink adds to the capabilities of each GLI testing lab. Now with GLIlink, whether you are in Asia, Europe or anywhere on the globe, GLI can interface devices to a variety of systems that are operating in any major casino on the globe.

Shipping devices and systems all over the world for testing can be cumbersome, expensive and delay time to market. GLIlink operates remotely, meaning there is no shipping of devices, saving time and money. Further, GLIlink creates a “real world” environment that provides a sense of security and lowers support costs for equipment providers around the globe.

With GLIlink, suppliers can test against specific casino configurations in their local lab, in their own time zone. And with no more waiting for your devices to be packed, shipped, received and tested, the entire process is streamlined, speeding time to market.

As with every test GLI does, with GLIlink, the entire process is monitored by GLI’s worldwide team of experts. If the device is in Macau and the system is in Las Vegas, GLI engineers in both labs personally monitor the test to ensure accuracy. (E-11.13.09)

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