TelevisaUnivision and Google Cloud have published an architecture account of ViX streaming during the 2026 football World Cup. The broadcaster reports 104 live matches, 675 million cumulative views across its services and no platform downtime during the tournament.
The delivery design placed Media CDN caches inside regional ISP networks and used direct peering to avoid congested international transit. Dedicated capacity was reserved for the event. Authentication and entitlement sessions moved to Memorystore for Valkey 9.0 on edge compute, while joint teams ran 24-hour war rooms, stress tests and simulated failovers.
Technical significance
The case shows that large live streaming depends as much on regional network topology and operational coordination as on encoding. Deep caches and peering can protect origin systems and reduce transit risk, while entitlement must scale without becoming the bottleneck at kickoff.
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The figures are reported by the participating companies and do not expose average bitrate, rebuffering, startup time or regional quality variation. A complete assessment would need audience-normalised QoE metrics, the definition of platform availability and details of any CDN or application incidents that did not count as downtime.
