Case Study: Multiplay achieves scalable, low-latency, cost-efficient game server orchestration with Arista Networks

Multiplay - Customer Case Study

Multiplay, a 20-year leader in multiplayer game hosting, built a hybrid cloud orchestration platform to rapidly provision bare‑metal and cloud servers so publishers can scale for demand spikes while keeping costs and latency low. The challenge was finding a networking foundation that delivered high performance, very low latency and open integration for deep automation across global data centers.

Multiplay deployed Arista 7050X switches running Arista EOS — a Linux-like OS that enabled tight automation integration — at colocations in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Stockholm. The solution delivered wire‑speed 10/40GbE performance, lower power and higher density, “phenomenal” support, and a clear upgrade path to 100Gbps on the same core architecture, allowing Multiplay to cost‑effectively scale and deliver high‑performance multiplayer experiences for publishers and gamers.

Multiplay

Tom Penrose

Team Lead for Systems