LONDON, England -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- PacificNet, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACT),
a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), mobile
internet, e-commerce and gaming technology in China, announced today that
its Octavian International subsidiary will display its products at the
International Casino Expo (ICE) in London, January 22-24, 2007 at booth
3230 along with complementary products from PacificNet's Take1 Technologies
subsidiary. The ICE is Europe's premiere
gaming show featuring hundreds of exhibitors and over 25,000 attendees
including casino owners, operators, investors and analysts.
Octavian International's presence at the 2008 ICE will focus on the
company's expertise in integrating its state-of-the-art systems and games
with existing systems and hardware from a wide range of partners, to create
cost- effective and highly efficient casino, AWP and lottery operations.
Following a highly successful international launch at the G2E Las Vegas,
the new Octavian GateManager(TM) and Octavian CashManager(TM) casino
systems will be shown for the first time at the ICE show.
Developed to meet the needs of casino operators in highly regulated
markets, the new systems include a built-in software bridge to Octavian's
ACP (Accounting, Control, Progressives) slots management system. This
effectively creates a total end-to-end table and slots management solution
for the modern casino. A live replication of the full casino system is
expected to include a reception area, a pit/table and cage functionality,
with a number of laptops connected as management stations. Slot machines
will be connected via a My ACP system along with a black jack table with a
card swipe facility to demonstrate player-tracking capabilities.
Continuing with the integration theme, two IGT machines will
demonstrate the built-in EZ Pay(R) integration capability of the Octavian
My ACP system, which makes setting up and managing TITO (ticket in, ticket
out) easier than ever before. IGT and Octavian recently signed a
non-exclusive three-year contract under which Octavian will distribute the
EZ Pay(R) solution throughout mainland Europe and the CIS.
Other hardware on display will be Octavian's own 'white label'
flat-pack EGM and games kit, the Maverick 1000, and cabinets from
PacificNet's Take1 Technologies for the European AWP and Asian Bingo
markets.