More Tribes Using GSA's S2S

LAS VEGAS -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The Gaming Standards Association has been making significant strides with its standards in Tribal Gaming across North America. Earlier this year, GSA's System-to-System (S2S) protocol was successfully implemented at the Seminole Tribe properties in Florida as well as the Poarch Creek Band of Indians' Riverside Entertainment Center. Now, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the Cherokee Nation are implementing S2S at their casino properties.

GSA Chairman Lyle Bell, who is also CIO for the Seminole Tribe, said, Tribal operations have often been frustrated by the extensive amount of time and dollars involved to begin or to expand their casino operations because of obstructions caused by proprietary protocols. The dream of plug-and-play is coming true with GSA's standards. What's more, GSA's standards give Tribes and all operators more control, making their entire gaming operations more flexible.

The S2S standard provides a solid foundation for central accounting and ticketing. It is a standardized communication protocol enabling casino operators to link their various casino management systems together, and to easily connect them to hospitality and POS systems. S2S standardizes communication protocols, enabling machines and systems of different manufacturers to communicate correctly with each other. As with all GSA standards, the S2S standard is available free of charge to the industry on GSA's public website, GamingStandards.com.

Ron Harris, president of Rocket Gaming, has been working with various Tribes and spoke of GSA's standards. He said, With GSA's standards, plug-and-play is here. GSA's standards are simply changing the way gaming content hits the casino floor. With the standards, operators can now freely move connections about the floor, in and out, without necessarily being concerned about who the vendor is. Instead they can make decisions based on which product is best, without worry about the back office interfacing, because now they know it will.