Deliver live sports and media updates to millions of users anywhere in the world
Keep your audiences engaged with the latest stats and live data provided to them in realtime.
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Enables sports clubs like Manchester City and Newcastle United to deliver live updates in under 0.5 seconds to their fans.
Broadcasts live score updates from Australia in milliseconds to millions of global tennis fans.
Powers live captioning for global audiences in the 100s of millions across 50 languages for events like the Olympic Games.
Inform and entertain your audiences with engaging realtime experiences that outperform the competition
Live updates and push notifications. Keep your audience engaged with immediate updates and mobile notifications.
Presence and occupancy. Know who is online/offline and how many people are subscribed to live updates.
Low latency and high scalability. Broadcast live updates at consistently low latencies (<65ms global average) over a globally distributed platform that’s designed for limitless scale.
Guaranteed message delivery. Ensure global audiences with diverse network conditions get the same experience.
We could talk for hours about the technical excellence of the product or the great value that Ably brings for our business. But it is the level of care that the Ably team demonstrates every single day for their customers that makes their solution a no-brainer for us.
The complete realtime data synchronization stack to deliver live sports and media updates
Publish messages to millions of subscribers over channels that support multiplexing.
Know when devices or users are online by subscribing to presence events.
Retrieve previously published messages and historical presence events.
On disconnect we keep connection state and attempt reconnection every 15 seconds for two minutes.
Ably guarantees all messages are delivered in the same order as originally published.
Authenticate clients directly using API keys or use secure Ably or JWT tokens for users.
Pub/sub over WebSockets, MQTT, and Server-Sent Events (SSE).
Trigger business logic (e.g. AWS Lambda) or process data elsewhere (e.g. RabbitMQ).
Deliver cross-platform push notifications with our iOS and Android SDKs.
How NASCAR delivers realtime data to fans around the world
Each NASCAR Cup Series race generates 1.3 TB of high-frequency data, which is processed then streamed in realtime to fans. In this interview Chad Larter, Senior Director of Technical Operations for NASCAR talks through how NASCAR tackles this large-scale realtime data challenge with Ably.
Create dependable realtime experiences at scale
Ably was built from the ground-up to be the trusted infrastructure that supports complex, business-critical, realtime experiences in fast-growing scenarios. Our mathematically modelled approach to system design ensures critical functionality at scale and provides unmatched quality of service guarantees, enabling you to create dependable digital experiences that will delight your end-users.
Ably’s Four Pillars of Dependability
We focus on predictability of latencies, and we guarantee <65 ms round trip latency for 99th percentile. We also provide unlimited channel throughput.
Message ordering, guaranteed delivery, and exactly-once semantics are built-in, from the moment a message is published to Ably, all the way to its delivery to consumers.
Fault tolerance at regional and global levels to guarantee continuity of service even in the case of multiple infrastructure failures. 99.999999% message survivability.
Ably is meticulously designed for high availability and extreme scale. We ensure 50% capacity margin for instant surges, and provide a 99.999% uptime SLA.
Our formal evaluation process and double load testing proved that Ably was the only platform that could meet our very challenging performance targets. They delivered without a hitch in 2018 and we look forward to working with them again next year.
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