Alphameric

Alphameric Solutions Ltd, the leading technology provider to the bookmaking marketplace, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the contract for the provision of its new service, Option8.

Mark Jarvis Racing, one of the largest independent bookmakers with 75 betting shops, becomes Alphameric’s first customer to take its innovative Option8 communications solution.

Option8, designed for independent bookmakers with five or more shops, is a unique communication solution that enables bookmakers to benefit from lower communications costs across their entire estate including the head office.

Option8 is a managed service that provides a combined communication package for bookmakers: many of the products in a bookmaker’s estate require need to connect to an ADSL line in order to communicate with the supplier’s or bookmakers own network. Bookmakers with Fixed Odd Betting terminals need to receive updates to those terminals, Closed Circuit Television pictures and data need to be transmitted to Head Offices and EPOS systems need to refresh data real time. Historically to service these requirements, bookmakers have needed separate ASDL lines for each supplier. Alphameric’s Option8 removes that requirement by enabling the majority of  third party systems often found in a bookmaker’s estate to share the same ADSL line  and delivering significant cost savings.

 Option8 provides an integrated backup solution with its 3G failover, switching automatically to 3G if the ADSL line fails. This ensures that each shop has an ‘always on’ communication solution. As a managed service, each customer also benefits from a proactive monitoring system, providing in-depth real-time analysis, detection, diagnosis and alerts of network outages and performance issues for routers, switches, wireless access points, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices.

Dave Cox, Mark Jarvis’ Racing Managing Director comments "Alphameric’s Option8 Managed Service brings many benefits to the Mark Jarvis estate; not only will it significantly reduce our annual communication spend, it will provide more budgetary control with a fixed monthly fee per shop. Each of our shops now only need one ADSL line to accommodates S-POS, FOBTs and CCTV all of which can fail safe to a 3G connection if need be..
The Proactive Monitoring System which is included in the managed service alerts us if there is a problem – it’s like having one member of staff watching the system 24 hours a day. With only one supplier, we have a single point of contact to resolve any issues. We are delighted that this communication headache has been removed.”
Clare Barber, Director of Marketing for Alphameric, adds: “We are very pleased to solve another industry issue for bookmakers. Option8 is already the built in communication package for bookmakers taking S-POS, our advanced Bet Capture and Settling Solution, so a customer with one shop will also benefit from this always on communication solution. We are working hard on solutions that support the independent bookmaker and this is just one of several that we will be announcing in the coming months”
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If you require further details please contact:

Clare Barber
Director of Marketing
clare.barber@alphameric.com
07771 691774