Case Study
IGT Turns To Digi For Innovative Wireless Routers To Rapidly Deploy Lottery Systems
IGT Turns To Digi For Innovative Wireless Routers To Rapidly Deploy Lottery Systems Business Challenge With more than 400,000 point-of-sale devices in 100 countries—200,000 in the U.S. alone—IGT operates one of the world’s most sophisticated real-time gaming networks that must deliver exceptional levels of reliability, availability, and performance. At their simplest levels, these systems join a host and a terminal over a wired or wireless network. A customer walks up to the terminal, makes a real-time wager through the terminal that is immediately recorded in the remote host system, and receives a paper ticket confirming the entry–all in one or two seconds. During peak periods, IGT systems can process thousands of transactions per second. “Many of our customers are government agencies an