lessons-learned. In New Jersey, there is some evidence already that points to the benefit of having multiple skins associated with each license. Not only does it provide the obvious benefits of competition and customer choice but it also is beginning to show that it increases the overall market. By contrast, in states where skins are limited to one per license this has the negative effects of limiting choice, competition and market size.
States need to be sensible when it comes to decisions such as taxation rates and siting of infrastructure. If tax rates are onerous it only serves to push business to the black market and in those situations, everyone loses except the black market operators.
When it comes to infrastructure, it is expensive to stand up an instance in a state and if regulations are written such that infrastructure has to sit in that particular state, then this causes operators to assess whether it makes commercial sense in the future with the downside that they choose not to enter a market. Tankfully regulators by and large are being pragmatic about this and allowing providers to use existing infrastructure to service multiple markets (notwithstanding the need to comply with the Wire Act).
Tere is a long way to go before any talk of market saturation, but the opening up of the New Jersey market has provided the platform
for a large number of suppliers who are quickly learning the vagaries and nuances of working in the US market.
THE BUSINESS TODAY
Continent 8 Technologies is the world’s largest online gaming data centre and global network solutions provider. Could you tell us a bit more about Continent 8, its history and the services it provides?
Continent 8 has been providing expertise and services to the online gaming and other regulated industries for almost 20 years now. Te company originally developed from a single data centre outside Montreal, Canada back in 1999. From there, we were instrumental in the setup, development and growth of many of the world’s largest online gaming software companies, platform providers and operators.
As the regulated online gaming markets began to develop across the world, Continent 8 began building data centres around the world in order to support market entry for our customers as well as bringing our extensive portfolio of private network managed services to other customers in these markets.
In 2006 we had one data centre offering, but that quickly expanded across Europe, North America and Asia to the extent that today we offer data centre services in over 20 countries
States need to be sensible when it comes to decisions such as taxation rates and siting of infrastructure. If tax
rates are onerous it only serves to push business to the black
market and in those situations, everyone loses except the black market operators.
and one global private network and cloud managed services spanning over 30 locations across three continents.
As the global footprint developed so too did our portfolio of services. In the early years, our service offering was based around standard co- location services. Today, however, we provide a complete range of services to support the online global gaming industry. Tese services include basic co-location offerings as well as a range of fully managed services including cloud infrastructure, cloud connectivity and cyber security services. As part of our cyber security offering, Continent 8 runs its own state-of-the- art global DDoS detection and mitigation platform and we have been protecting online gaming companies for well over a decade now.
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