2008-11-26 11:02:06 - During the past months Superleague Formula S.A. and Octoshape have with great success live streamed the entire racing season in high quality (700 Kbps), for the enjoyment of motorsport enthusiasts all over the world.

Superleague Formula (SF) is a brand new, global Championship that connects two of the most popular sports in the world: soccer and motor racing. In SFL a number of high profile soccer teams - including AC Milan, Liverpool FC, and Sevilla FC - each sponsor a car in the formula races.

In the beginning of 2008, SF were looking for a

streaming provider capable of offering the complete service of pulling down a satellite signal, encoding it and streaming it out to thousands of people world-wide.

As motorsports is always fast moving action, high quality and reliability was of utmost importance to the management of Superleague Formula:

'We chose Octoshape because of the demonstrated experience with large events in high quality and with an incomparable stability; quality is the key-word for everything we do at Superleague Formula and that is exactly what we get using Octoshape.'

- Federico Mera, Marketing & Communication at Superleague Formula

With information from Superleague Formula, Octoshape could obtain the broadcast signal from satellite, mix commentary and audio tracks, encode it, and push it out to the Octoshape network. From here it was distributed to viewers all over the world at 700 Kbps during the races all weekend.

'We had really positive feedback from the online viewers; they were very impressed by the high quality!'

- Federico Mera, Marketing & Communication at Superleague Formula

In the future Superleague Formula will gradually expand with up to 17 races, taking the championship closer to all fans around the world at venues in Europe, South America and Asia. Octoshape and Superleague Formula are excited about the past and future opportunities and are looking forward to providing this concept to fans all over the world.

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