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.
Station Casinos properties were wired the way slot floors were always wired: Belden RS-232 serial cable run from the back of house to the machines. Serial control cabling is not a data-grade twisted-pair plant — it was never meant to carry Ethernet, and no amount of re-termination changes that. The conventional answer is to abandon it and pull a brand-new plant across a floor that never closes.
ReadyLinks took the opposite path: the serial lines themselves became the network. ReadyLink host switches at the floor closets drive the existing serial runs, and fanless ReadyLinks switches at the machine banks hand off managed Ethernet to the devices on the floor — machines, signage, and peripherals — with everything visible in ReadyView.
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.
Station Casinos operates a modern, managed IP network on cabling that predates the technologies running over it — deployed without closing the floor, and operated by the property’s own teams with every port visible from one pane of glass.
Tell us what's in your walls — chances are we've already networked over it.