A casino floor is one of the hardest places in the world to run new cable. It never closes, every ceiling tile sits above a camera's sightline, and every hour of construction is an hour of machines out of play. Whatever network the floor gets, it has to arrive over the wiring that is already there.
The Rio’s floor was wired in an era when Cat4 was a reasonable choice — a cable class that was obsolete before gigabit Ethernet existed and was never rated for the speeds a modern floor requires. Standard networking has nothing to offer a Cat4 plant except a demolition quote.
ReadyLinks treats that plant as an asset instead of a liability. ReadyLink host switches drive the existing Cat4 runs from the floor closets, and ReadyLinks switches at the banks hand modern, managed Ethernet to the machines — the same cloud-managed platform that runs on coax, telephone pair, and serial lines elsewhere on the Strip.
ReadyLinks is approved by the Nevada and New Jersey gaming regulators for IP gaming deployments over existing serial lines — the level of scrutiny a slot floor network answers to.
A floor network the original installers could never have imagined, running over the cable they left behind — deployed without closing the floor and operated day to day in ReadyView.
Tell us what's in your walls — chances are we've already networked over it.