LAS VEGAS, NV — (Marketwired) — 11/14/14 — today announced that will rely on iStreamPlanet–s live video workflow service to live stream the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games to connected viewers around the world. EverSport.TV will provide complete online coverage of more than 5,700 participating athletes in thirty-six sport disciplines kicking off with Grammy Award® Winning Artist Ricky Martin performing live at the Opening Ceremonies. Veracruz 2014 is brought to EverSport.tv from producer Abaculi Media.
“Working with global online broadcaster Eversport.TV has allowed us to extend our reach to a much larger viewership,” said Kevin Sanford, Executive Producer, Abaculi Media.
“In today–s world where people want content at their fingertips, we had to enable a desktop and mobile connection for the sports fans around the world. Enabling IP devices globally brings a whole new level of exposure to the games, inspiring the organization, the teams and the athletes to deliver two weeks of thrilling, live competition,” said Michael Williams, Executive Producer IP, Abaculi Media.
“Our mission at EverSport.tv is to bring a growing number of global, live sports events to an eager audience, especially events that aren–t available on traditional TV,” said Wayne Sieve, CEO of EverSport. “Using the Aventus SaaS allows us to quickly scale up when we–re streaming a large number of simultaneous events and scale down when that event is over. This lowers our costs significantly compared to building out and maintaining our own live encoding and multiscreen packaging infrastructure.”
An Olympic qualifying event, the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games feature over athletes from 31 countries in the region in a multi-sport competition. Concluding November 30th, 2014, Veracruz 2014 includes 36 sport disciplines, such as basketball, boxing, beach volleyball, soccer, baseball, gymnastics, cycling, swimming and diving held in five alternate locations: Boca del Río, Tuxpan, Córdoba, Xalapa and Coatzacoalcos.
Online viewers can watch the Central American games in HD at starting November 14th at 8 p.m. ET live from Veracruz, Mexico.
iStreamPlanet, the leader in live, simplifies live video streaming to multiple screens. iStreamPlanet is changing the way live streaming is done with the launch of Aventus, a cloud-based, live video streaming solution for premium content providers.
iStreamPlanet–s innovative approach has been chosen by the world–s leading sports, entertainment, and technology brands, including NBC Sports, Turner Broadcasting, Fox, and Microsoft, to bring live, online video to connected audiences around the world.
Founded in 2000, the privately held company is headquartered in Las Vegas with a software development center in Redmond, WA. More information can be found at .
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