Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced that leading national broadcast rights holders, pay TV providers, and sports programmers used AWS, including AWS Elemental Media Services, to power live streamed experiences as an estimated 3.4 billion people watched the 2018 football tournament that concluded earlier this summer. AWS Elemental solutions were also used in the […] More
Net Insight and Controlware provided systems integration and managed services as well as support to broadcasters ARD and ZDF during their live broadcast of the FIFA World Cup in Russia from 14 June until 15 July 2018. The HD and UHD networks were based on Net Insight’s media transport solution, ensuring excellent transmission quality and […] More
At the heart of numerous major sport productions this year – including the FIFA World Cup for BBC Sport, Wimbledon, The Open and The Asian Games – Axon’s Cerebrum control and monitoring platform has enabled broadcasters and OB companies to eliminate engineering bottlenecks and create efficient unified workflows. The platform has also enabled them to […] More
The 2018 FIFA World Cup broke all streaming records as broadcasters around the globe faced unprecedented demand on digital platforms. The bandwidth required to deliver this year’s event surpassed the 2014 edition only ten days into the tournament, and peak online traffic nearly quadrupled (24 Tbps vs. 7 Tbps in 2014) as millions of viewers […] More
LiveU has released live broadcasting figures for the FIFA World Cup in Russia, revealing that 485 of its units were used by customers from over 40 countries. The numbers have at least doubled since the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it says, and now include over 15,000 hours of live broadcasting, over 30,000 live sessions and […] More
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF are relying on dry hire equipment from Qvest Media to broadcast the World Cup from Russia. As before during the Winter Olympics in South Korea and earlier international sporting events, the internationally active systems architect and rental provider will complement the broadcasters’ technical infrastructure with IT, AV and broadcast […] More
TV CDN technology pioneer Edgeware has reported that many of its customers have experienced a doubling of their peak CDN streaming traffic on match days during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Its analytics data shows that, as expected, major cultural and sporting events like this create sudden surges in demand on OTT services. This highlights […] More
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is about to enter the quarterfinals stage of the tournament and the FIFA TV production team continues to refine its workflows not only from 2014 but also from the group stage. Like the athletes themselves, the goal is to continually build off the previous match and to continue to make the […] More
The 2018 World Cup Knockout Stage is under way and with it a chance for the team at Fox Sports to reflect on a busy period of preparation and execution for an event that the entire Fox Sports family has not only been looking forward to but has been working on. The core World Cup […] More
One of the centrepieces for Fox Sports coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup is the network’s studio at Red Square, a facility that was a long-time coming and has undergone some revisions since the early days of planning. And as the tournament heads into its final seven matches it is pretty clear that the […] More
