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Hosting E-Commerce Park E-Commerce Park (ECP) is located on the island of Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean, in the Government appointed “E-Zone Vredenberg”. This means that qualified ECP customers only have to pay 2 % annual profit taxes, no import duties and no sale tax! C uraçao is located outside of the Hurricane Belt and is a licensed environment and an ideal location for targeting the Latin American gaming market. With a four hundred year history of being a trading post for the Americas and the availability of a range of state-of-the-art financial and telecommunication infrastructures and services, Curaçao offers the environment needed to operate global e-commerce businesses. E-Commerce Park (founded in 2001) is the only state-of-the-art Tier III data center in the region. With the recently opened new data centers IDC-2 and IDC-3, the current capacity is well over 200 cabinets. The facility is carrier neutral and multi-homed, guaranteeing the collocated clients a variety of access and better warranties and SLA’s. The on-site 24 Network 64 | Marketplace 2015/16 Sponsored by Operation Center technicians are trained to be the eyes and ears for management of your infrastructure and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. E-Commerce Park introduced the Tele Hotel concept to the local telecom providers back in 2009. Currently all licensed telecom providers now have a POP at the facility, bringing in their own outside fabric to allow interconnection between the various networks and clients, including the peering platform of AMS-IX Caribbean (https://cw.ams-ix.net), as well as Google, Akamai and Verisign. E-Commerce Park has a hosting certificate, issued under section 7 of the Alderney eGambling Ordinance 2009. This qualifies E-Commerce Park as “approved premises” for the AGCC eGambling licensees.