Gaming start-up taps Equinix infrastructure on demand to scale globally

A European Gaming Company wants to scale globally, while maintaining platform reliability and player satisfaction while establishing a more flexible infrastructure. Their business drivers were centered around maintaining platform availability while also building out a future centered flexible infrastructure centered on supporting new regional markets.

The customer leveraged Equinix Colocation to deploy a centered multicloud networking functionality while supporting and stabilizing current workloads.

Business Drivers

  • Vertical scaling of cloud resources to meet gamer demand.
  • Decreasing latency across widespread platform hubs.
  • Expansion into previously unidentified player markets.
  • Long term savings from decreased onsite maintenance costs and repeatable infrastructure for as needed scale.

Solution Implemented

  • Cloud adjacent routing scheme using virtual routing via Network Edge and Fabric.
  • Utilizing physical and virtual hardware on Platform Equinix.
  • Increasing points of presence in new gamer geographies with central gaming hubs.

Benefits Realized

  • The problem: Increasing demand and worsening latency
  • The challenge: Scale rapidly across geographies
  • The solution: Digital infrastructure from Equinix
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