(Adnkronos) – Rai Way, an Italian operator of digital infrastructure and services, is a technological partner of Lega Calcio Serie A for the transport and distribution of signals from Primavera Competitions football matches. Rai Way provides its network infrastructure and expertise to support the transmission of the competition dedicated to young talents of Italian football. The project involves the interconnection, by the end of the 2026/2027 Sports Season, of 15 stadiums using “fixed” connections on a dedicated fiber optic network and, for the remaining stadiums, “mobile” connections on public networks implemented through a network of technological partners. The audio and video signals generated at the event venues are transported to the Lega Calcio Serie A delivery point in Lissone (MB), where the Remote Control Room is located, to then be distributed to rights holders, traveling through Rai Way’s fiber optic backbone spread throughout the national territory. During match days and for the entire duration of the events, monitoring and assistance services are guaranteed, with the use, among others, of Rai Way’s NOC (Network Operation Centre) and SOC (Security Operation Centre).
“We consider this service an important step in the diversification of services that characterizes Rai Way’s evolution. Supporting Lega Calcio Serie A in the distribution of the Primavera Competitions, which are of absolute importance for the growth of young Italian footballers, is an opportunity to enhance our infrastructure in the service of sport,” declared Roberto Zarra, Head of New Business & Sales and Deputy Manager of Rai Way. “This project is proof of our expertise in managing integrated end-to-end solutions and the strategic role of our infrastructure in enabling broadcast and broadband distribution services, ensuring continuity, reliability, and quality.”
“We are pleased to have started this collaboration with Rai Way, a reliable and competent technological partner, from the current season. Thanks to this agreement, we will be able to rely, for our youth tournaments, on a widespread connection infrastructure, which has allowed us to import the remote production method at our IBC and will enable us, by standardizing the distribution of audio and video signals from the venues, to improve their quality,” declared Luisella Fusco, Media Operations & Broadcast Director. “This further operational step confirms Lega Calcio Serie A’s commitment to enhancing the Primavera Competitions, which represent a fundamental pillar for the development of young Italian football talents and deserve increasingly high production and distribution standards, almost in line with those of Serie A.”
