Short clip: Wireless wagering at the Kentucky Derby

>> I understand that Kentucky Derby Day is a big peak day, 160,000 people presumably betting and drinking at the same time.

>> Hopefully betting, yes.

>> And how do you plan for something like that? Given that you have one peak day, where do you get the capacity from and how do you accommodate all those people who want to bet at the same time?

>> We leverage partners, again, to help us, because it is just an enormous thing. The city of Louisville helps out tremendously. There's a whole two week festival that Louisville puts on just in preparation for this derby. But it does pose a problem where you have 1200 to 2000 betting devices and 160,000 people that want to bet. There's queuing problems and some of the things that we want to do with the technology is to implement some wireless capabilities that would allow us to double or triple the amount of wagering devices we have on track without having to do a significant investment in additional hardware. So, we've had some early success with that and we're hoping to deploy this spring a much broader solution to actually allow our customers to wager as often as they want.

>> And what is that solution based on?

>> There is, the wagering system itself, the Totalizator, nice name, but it came up 30 years ago, the Totalizator System that we started working with a vendor to create a wireless interface so people can carry around a PDA throughout the entire plant, so we have wireless AP's everywhere, and when they want to place their bet they can do it right then and there.

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