FOX Sports used Aspera Streaming to edit 64 World Cup matches
FOX Sports utilized Aspera Streaming technology to remotely edit content in near real-time during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. This allowed for the broadcast of all 64 matches via a cloud workflow.
Key Takeaways
- FOX Sports needed to broadcast all 64 matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
- IBM’s Aspera Streaming was used for remote editing in near real time.
- The production workflow ran through the cloud.
- The case study ties FOX Sports and IBM together on a strategic partnership around live sports production.
Why It Matters
FOX Sports’ use of Aspera Streaming shows a cloud workflow handling every match in a 64-game FIFA World Cup slate while enabling remote editing in near real time. For streaming and live sports operations, that is a concrete example of production hardware and software being pushed into distributed workflows rather than fixed control rooms. The competitive signal here is IBM positioning Aspera inside a high-pressure live sports use case, with FOX Sports as the reference point. The next thing to watch is whether IBM publishes additional live-event case studies that show the same near-real-time remote editing workflow beyond the 2018 World Cup.
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