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Swisslos Hits the Jackpot with Avi Networks

Swisslos, the Swiss lottery company has deployed Avi Networks’ Application Delivery Platform to modernise its network and to provide a great customer experience. According to the lottery company, it is already benefitting from improved availability and performance, and has reduced costs by 60%.

When lottery jackpots grow to large sums, public interest and web traffic can spike, presenting a significant challenge, but Avi’s elastic software load balancer and intelligent Web Application Firewall (iWAF) are said to enable Swisslos to vastly improve the performance and security of its online gaming properties, ensuring tickets can be purchased at peak times, while reducing operating costs.

“We couldn’t adequately balance peak loads and offer the required flexibility and automation,” said Joris Vuffray, Head of Network and System Management for Swisslos. “The lack of elasticity was impacting our ability to deliver our services to customers of our internet gaming platform.”

Swisslos was unable to scale its capacity quickly due to the time required to configure and deploy physical appliances. Swisslos looked to software-defined solutions for load balancing and web application security and discovered Avi Networks could provide both.

“Swisslos was able to deploy the Avi solution within two hours,” Vuffray said. “We quickly saw the advantages: the load balancer and WAF are extremely user-friendly, Avi’s analytics give an immediate picture of application performance and the solutions were designed from the ground up for automation.”

Swisslos also cut its costs by 60 per cent compared to the previous vendor and application troubleshooting now takes less than half the time than was required using the old solutions.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Pete Jackson .