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 realtime experiences ready to serve global audiences of millions in days not months
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Delivers live scores from Australia in milliseconds for 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. -
Provides 5 million daily users with live financial commentary and stock tickers. -
Delivered a HQ Trivia app to market in just three weeks, reaching one million concurrent users.
Keep your audiences informed, entertained, and engaged with realtime experiences that outperform the competion
The complete realtime stack to engage audiences at any 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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