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G2E ASIA PREVIEW
GLI continues to celebrate
10th birthday at G2E Asia
Company also champions the success of its recently-opened Asia office,
bringing interoperability and testing to the region. Visit stand 943 for more…
E
arlier this year, when Gaming Laboratories
International opened the GLI Asia
Interoperability and Testing Center, Asia’s
first gaming testing lab, a mix of more than
55 regulators and other dignitaries from
across the region – including suppliers, government
GLI's Ian Hughes and Larry Xiao
at the GLI Asia office opening
officials and operators – joined in the celebration to
mark the beginning of a new era for the gaming
industry in the region.
Finally the region can boast its own test lab, staffed
with local test engineers providing service to mainly
to local companies. Already busy, the GLI Asia
Interoperability and Testing Center serves several
regional markets such as mainland China (lottery), First, GLI’s Interoperability Center, the only
Japan, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Interoperability Center run by a private laboratory,
South Korea, Taiwan and other emerging Asian helps suppliers and regulators ensure that equipment
gaming and lottery markets. connects to systems and communicates correctly. The
world’s largest Interoperability Center runs in GLI’s
GLI Asia General Manager Larry Xiao, a Chinese Las Vegas office and is a place where suppliers and
native, said, “Our goal was to have more than just a regulators can come together in a neutral
testing laboratory or a ‘Macau office.’ Our goal was to environment. Additionally, GLI is the only
establish an Asian base for GLI, which we now have. independent laboratory to be approved by Gaming
From GLI Asia, we serve multiple countries along the Standards Association (GSA) to test and certify the
Pacific Rim, including their governments, local and industries latest set of communication protocols
international suppliers as well as the Casino and
Lottery Operators.” Next, GLIAccess(SM) and GLI Verify(SM) are
important tools that enable regulators to track
It is that local level of expertise, combined with the certifications and to ensure that what was tested in
powerful brain trust of GLI’s international network, the lab is what was installed on the gaming floor. To
that GLI Asia will bring to G2E Asia 2009. Xiao said: help manufacturers speed time-to-market globally.
“We didn’t want to just open a ‘service office’ like GLI’s “Point.Click.Transfer.” is an online application
some other firms do. As locals, we are invested in the that allows OEMs to transfer previously certified
region, and we wanted to better serve our customers products to other jurisdictions. Last, GLI University is
by establishing a full laboratory that is truly global in a training program that conduct on-site and off-site
resources and local in focus which is the driving training and roundtables to help regulators stay
principle of GLI services worldwide.” ahead of advancing technology.
GLI Asia quickly reached out to help grow the pool In addition to exhibiting at G2E Asia, in June GLI
of qualified local engineers and signed an agreement will celebrate its 20th anniversary. For more than 20
with the Macao Polytechnic Institute. GLI entered years, GLI has been the world leader in independent
into a memorandum of understanding to work with testing for the gaming industry, and now with
the Macau Polytechnic Institute to work on joint 13 testing laboratories spread across Africa, Asia,
research projects, to provide training at the Institute Australia, Austria, Europe, Norh America and South
and to cultivate and hire future graduates. America, GLI is the only laboratory of its kind to hold
both US and International accreditations for
In its G2E Asia stand #943, GLI will be discussing compliance with ISO 17025 and 17020 standards for
several of its products that help to make its clients’ technical competence in testing and inspection
lives easier. services.
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