Australia's NBL1 multiplies its content production using the LiveU Solo cloud platform

LiveU Solo and its cloud platform have allowed the NBL1 of Australia to broadcast more than 900 matches live for the first time in its history.

The National Basketball League Australian is a semi-professional competition, made up of the Southern, Northern, Central and Western Conferences, with men's and women's competitions, including 58 clubs from Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales. Your Cloud-Based Remote Production Powered Production Services Company 5streams, the online production platform Cloudmix and for Pacific Live Media, local partner of LiveU who provided the solution Solo and local technical support. This deployment has allowed more than 733,000 parties of the NBL1 during the 2021 season. That success also transferred to social networks, which have registered more than 3.36 million video views generated with LiveU Solo.

Dean Anglin, CEO of NBL1, tells how LiveU's technology has helped them produce more content: “We had a dream of broadcasting NBL1 matches from states across Australia and LiveU's 4G linked IP technology has made this possible, allowing us to reliably broadcast from every venue, at any time, eliminating our previous single point of failure problem.” “Currently, we have 75 units of Solo, and this number is expected to increase to more than 100 for the next season,” he comments, highlighting his confidence in the LiveU device.

LiveU Solo

The LiveU Solo video solution provides wireless live streaming directly from cameras or other video sources a online platforms o a one customizable web destination that uses the cloud platform Solo of LiveU. In the NBL workflow, Solo units integrate with cameras Canon and with other centralized production teams, including graphical overlays and business integration. Once the signal is collected, the live broadcasts are transmitted directly by 5Stream to Sports radar and to the OTT platform, website and application of NBL, which according to Anglin provides “viewing rights” and creates “monetization opportunities, such as sponsorships.” In addition, the finals of the competition were broadcast to another OTT, You Sports.

There Eshel, CEO of LiveU Asia, celebrates the NBL1 success story: "NBL1 represents the potential of a complete cloud-based workflow for sports productions using LiveU Solo. NBL1 has done a fantastic job broadcasting more than 900 matches and increasing its brand value in a very simple and cost-effective way."