For the best part of two years, multicast ABR connoisseur Broadpeak has been hammering home to Faultline that the French firm holds no direct contractual agreement with sports streamer DAZN. After all, it was Italian operator TIM that chose to deploy Broadpeak’s multicast ABR technology to alleviate bandwidth bottlenecks during live soccer matches, after DAZN contentiously secured exclusive Serie A rights. We always sensed this was a temporary state of affairs, with DAZN sure to eventually recognize the benefits of cutting out the middlemen by forging a direct bridge with Broadpeak’s nanoCDN, in what is effectively a reseller deal. Just in time for IBC 2023, France-based Broadpeak can officially boast DAZN as a direct customer, taking the nanoCDN multicast ABR…