The European League of Football (ELF), which consists of American football teams across numerous European countries, has launched a cloud-powered remote production infrastructure for 2023 season in under three weeks.
ELF’s production and streaming partner Novel Media and AWS partner LOGIC media solutions GmbH, worked on the collaboration which is said to be the first of its kind for a pan-European sports league.
The infrastructure, which was tested on 13th May 2023, combines a wide range of AWS services with 4G/5G signal transmission and signal distribution to over-the-top (OTT) technologies from partners. By reducing the volume of travel and equipment transport between match locations in Europe for 76 games, ELF expects to save more than 300 tonnes of CO2 emissions, it said.
“The European League of Football is on track to reach more than half a billion households worldwide, so the scalability AWS-powered infrastructure provides is not only paramount today but will also make it easy for us to support continued growth and launch new viewer features in the future,” shared Zeljko Karajica, CEO of the European League of Football.
“It’s also helping us reduce our carbon footprint, as we can significantly pare back the volume of travel and outside broadcast (OB) truck equipment that productions of this calibre typically require.”
AWS, Novel Media, and LOGIC media designed the architecture to support separate signal variants depending upon the match-up needs, said the companies. Two separate signals are produced for each match, including a graphics-only version of the world feed, which is fed to a local broadcaster that inserts presenters and L-frames. Sent out through the ELF OTT service, the second signal is available in four languages, each including ambient sound, and features ELF, Czech, or Polish presenters.
