Hong Kong Jockey Club

Challenge

The “One Pool Wagering” service that Hong Kong Jockey Club offers requires real-time data movement to support high-speed calculation, including the continuous synchronization of data across their Happy Valley and Shatin datacenters.

Large events like Imternational Derby drive exponential growth, and they need to ensure fast, predictable performance speed at peak capacity during bursts of activity. Finally, they needed the flexibility to compete with other bookmakers, and in the event of failures needed the ability to failover to standby systems in 7-14 seconds.

Solution

The Hong Kong Jockey Club is using Solace’s advanced event broker technology to improve the distribution of real-time odds and other information to their customers. The event brokers have been implemented in collaboration with Sonivy, a provider of integrated technology services for the financial services sector in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The Club’s adoption of Solace is consistent with their commitment to delivering the best customer experience in horse racing, sporting and betting entertainment.

Benefits

Solace event brokers enable real-time distribution of large sets of odds data across multiple datacenters to give customers access to the most up-to-date odds and race results from their preferred channels.