Case Study: PlayOn! Sports achieves reliable high-quality live sports streaming with Wowza Video

PlayOn! Sports Redefining the sports viewing environment

PlayOn! Sports is helping high school sports fans watch live and on-demand games when they can’t attend in person, but it needed a reliable, cost-effective way to stream thousands of events at scale. The company uses Wowza Video, including Wowza Streaming Engine, to power the NFHS Network and support live broadcasts for schools across the country.

With Wowza Video, PlayOn! Sports can ingest streams from virtually any encoder, deliver them through a CDN, record content server-side, and optimize playback across many devices. The result has been dependable streaming for hundreds of simultaneous live events and support for over 5,000 postseason games, with about half of viewers watching on mobile devices and a goal of streaming more than 50,000 events annually.

PlayOn! Sports

Jay Sandhaus

Chief Technology Officer