AIT Revamps Gaming Center

(Fayetteville, NC) AIT has updated the GameVault (http://gamevault.ait.com), a 45-seat gaming center in its Fayetteville, North Carolina headquarters, featuring high-speed servers tied in to an OC fiber network. “The key to gaming success for players is speed, and our network provides that,” said Clarence Briggs, AIT’s Chief Executive Officer. “As players have come in and tried it out during the past few weeks, we have moved toward establishing leagues and tournaments drawing on both the local military population and students.”

The gaming center, with Internet Access in excess of 200Mbps and a series of multi-homed routers, is suitable for LAN parties and large-scale competitions. AIT relied on the experience of its own staffers who game to get the right technology, and to decide on the initial list of games that would be pre-loaded into company-provided machines. Other stations within the GameVault are for players who have their own rigs but want to tap into a faster network than is available at home. Given AIT’s setting in a military community, battlefield and warcraft titles are a point of emphasis, but not the only one. “Our list of games will evolve based on what players want to play,” said Sean McCoy, the company’s Chief Marketing Officer. Newer offerings include Madden 07, Madden 07 Hall of Fame Edition, and NCAA Football 07.

Despite a young population, Fayetteville has no other venue for the industry’s key demographic. The proximity of Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base is a natural fit, with a unique twist in that many of the games on the market today feature scenarios that players have seen in real life deployments. The GameVault offers monthly memberships and by-the-hour daily rates.



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