DAZN begets dynamic live sports infrastructure by Techex/TAG
DAZN, a global sports entertainment platform, has transformed its live monitoring capabilities to support its global broadcasting of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, deploying a brand new, scalable, flexible and centralised infrastructure, in partnership with Techex and TAG Video Systems.
The FIFA Club World Cup saw 32 of the most successful football clubs from every continent compete in a single tournament spanning 63 matches. DAZN is the exclusive global broadcast partner, having delivered every match live and free to fans worldwide.
With global rights to the tournament and with growing demand for the group’s other sports content around the world, DAZN required an infrastructure capable of supporting the complexity and pace of some of the world’s most high profile and dynamic sporting events.
To meet that demand, DAZN, working in partnership with Techex, built a new 2110-based global Master Control Room (MCR) in Leeds, UK.
The system provides centralised control over more than 5,000 unique video sources and 300 mosaic layouts which, once at DAZN’s core data centres, are routed to their operational hubs in Leeds, Northern Ireland and Hyderabad, powered by TAG’s Media Control System (MCS) and managed through a redundant central interface.
This reduces bandwidth usage, eliminates infrastructure duplication, and enables any source to be routed to any operator or screen without reconfiguration.
David Christmas, Head of Broadcast Project Engineering, DAZN, said, “With the number of different feeds and variants required for DAZN’s broadcasting of the FIFA Club World Cup – on top of our usual workload – flexibility and scalability were the priority to ensure our MCR was monitoring as effectively as possible.
“Our partnership with Techex and TAG has enabled DAZN to continue delivering an unparalleled entertainment experience to our users, supported by cutting-edge live sports infrastructure.”
Techex worked in partnership with DAZN’s project and operations teams on the overall system architecture and delivery, focusing on the continued development of DAZN’s orchestrated workflow deployments, utilising technologies such as tx edge to provide protection and monitoring of DAZN’s signals, optimising quality of signal and ensuring delivery.
Richard Bailey, CPTO, Techex, added, “We delivered a solution that’s technically sound, operator-friendly, and built for DAZN’s evolving needs.
“We needed to address the immediate demand to build an infrastructure to cater to a tournament the size and scale of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025, whilst also considering DAZN’s future. It’s a great example of partnership focused on real-world results.”
