Tennis Austrlia case study
Each year, Tennis Australia broadcasts the Australian Open Grand Slam tournament to millions of global spectators, across multiple digital formats - all in real time.
Ably for sports, media, & audience engagement
Deliver live sports and media updates to millions of users anywhere in the world
Keep your audiences engaged with the latest stats and live data provided to them in realtime.
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Broadcasts live score updates from Australia in milliseconds to millions of global tennis fans. -
Powers live captioning for global audiences in the 100s of millions across 50 languages for events like the Olympic Games. -
Works with sports, betting, and media organizations from all over the world, empowering them to unlock the value of realtime sports data. -
Enables sports clubs like Manchester City or Newcastle United to deliver live updates in under 0.5 seconds to their fans.
Inform and entertain your audiences with engaging realtime experiences that outperform the competition
Robust realtime communication stack to deliver live sports and media updates at scale
Pub/Sub messaging
Publish messages to millions of subscribers over channels that support multiplexing.
Device & user presence
Know when devices or users are online by subscribing to presence events.
Message history
Retrieve past messages up to 72 hours in the past. Useful for chat or live feeds.
Stream resume
On disconnect we keep state and retry connection every 15 seconds for two minutes.
Message ordering
Ably guarantees all messages are delivered in the same order as originally published.
Flexible security
Authenticate clients directly using API keys or use secure Ably or JWT tokens for users.
Multiple protocols
Ably supports pub/sub over WebSockets, MQTT, and Server-Sent Events (SSE).
Integrations
Trigger business logic (e.g. AWS Lambda) or process data elsewhere (e.g. RabbitMQ).
A Pub/Sub platform engineered around Four Pillars of Dependability
Delivering seamless experiences to your customers is vital, that's why we created the four pillars. This mathematically modelled approach to system design guarantees critical functionality at scale.
Performance
We focus on predictability of latencies to provide certainty in uncertain operating conditions.
<65ms roundtrip latency in 99% percentile. Unlimited channel throughput.
Integrity Guarantees for ordering and delivery to overcome limitations of pub/sub & simplify app architecture.Message Ordering and Delivery guaranteed from publisher to subscribers.
Reliability Fault tolerant at regional and global level so we can survive multiple failures without outages.99.999999% message survivability for instance and datacenter failure.
Availability A transparent, mathematically grounded design for extreme scale, elasticity, and service uptime.50% capacity margin for instant surge. 99.999% uptime SLA.
A fault-tolerant, highly-available design means a legitimate uptime SLA.
Learn moreOur global presence means the lowest latencies, wherever your users are.
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