CLOUD COMPUTING
hen Max Verstappen accelerates through Eau Rouge at 300km / h, or Lewis Hamilton overtakes on the inside line at Silverstone, millions of fans around the world experience these heart-stopping moments in real-time. But what they don’ t see is the invisible technological revolution happening behind the scenes – a broadcasting infrastructure that has fundamentally transformed how Formula One reaches its global audience of 2.06 billion fans across more than 180 territories.
At the heart of this transformation is Tata Communications, F1’ s Official Broadcast Connectivity Provider since 2012. Their partnership represents one of the most sophisticated remote production operations in live sports, moving the equivalent of 70 hours of 4K UHD video streaming every race weekend and transmitting data from circuits to F1’ s Media & Technology Centre in the UK in under 200 milliseconds.
From humble beginnings to cloud supremacy The partnership between Formula One and Tata Communications began with modest ambitions.“ We had very humble beginnings: we were just providing a 100MB internet line into all of the locations that they went to,” recalls Dhaval Ponda, VP & Global Head of Media & Entertainment Business at Tata Communications.
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