Support for DAZN's broadcast of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup by Encompass
Encompass Digital Media is providing comprehensive support for DAZN's coverage of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, ensuring a seamless and resilient playout for live Tier-1 sports events.
The service replaces traditional satellite-based delivery with an internet-native approach, encompassing resilient playout, cloud-based OTT streaming, IP distribution, and satellite-based resilience services. This approach is designed for high availability and scale across multiple territories.
Key details of Encompass’s support include:
- Resilient Playout: Encompass ensures continuous broadcast playout with redundancy to maintain uninterrupted live coverage even in case of technical issues.
- Cloud-Based OTT Streaming: Utilizing cloud workflows, Encompass handles over-the-top streaming delivery, enabling real-time, scalable streaming to global digital audiences.
- IP Distribution: Content is distributed over IP networks, enabling flexible and efficient delivery to multiple regions worldwide with dynamic routing and management.
- Satellite-Based Resilience: Satellite links provide a backup distribution path, enhancing reliability and ensuring service continuity in case of IP network failure.
- Global Coverage and Multi-Territory Reach: The combined IP and satellite approach supports DAZN’s broadcast reach across numerous territories, guaranteeing robust, high-quality live sports streaming for this major event.
Encompass' Stream TV product delivers OTT direct-to-consumer distribution for three linear channels of the Club World Cup via its Altitude Media Cloud. The distribution setup is monitored 24/7 from a custom-built London facility.
In addition, Encompass integrates traditional master control and broadcast engineering with modern cloud, IP, and OTT services. The company provides satellite downlink capabilities from the U.K. and the U.S. as an additional layer of resilience. Live playout for the Club World Cup is being managed from Encompass's Stamford, Conn., facility.
The Club World Cup, which brings together 32 of the most successful clubs from every continent, concludes on Sunday, July 13, with the championship match between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.
- Encompass Digital Media's service replaces traditional satellite delivery with an internet-native approach, featuring resilient playout, cloud-based OTT streaming, IP distribution, and satellite-based resilience services for high availability and scale across multiple territories.
- The Company ensures continuous broadcast playout with redundancy to maintain uninterrupted live coverage, even in case of technical issues, through resilient playout.
- Utilizing cloud workflows, Encompass handles over-the-top streaming delivery, enabling real-time, scalable streaming to global digital audiences.
- Content is distributed over IP networks, allowing for flexible and efficient delivery to multiple regions with dynamic routing and management.
- Satellite links provide a backup distribution path, enhancing reliability and ensuring service continuity in case of IP network failure.
- Encompass' Stream TV product delivers OTT direct-to-consumer distribution for three linear channels of the Club World Cup via the Altitude Media Cloud.
- The distribution setup is monitored 24/7 from a custom-built London facility.
- Live playout for the Club World Cup, featuring 32 of the most successful clubs from every continent, is being managed from Encompass's facility in Stamford, Conn., and concludes on Sunday, July 13, with the championship match between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.
