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I spent two days inside the FIFA World Cup International Broadcast Center (IBC), the temporary network that carries every camera, every replay, every goal from 16 stadiums, and the HBS team even handed me a packet capture of a real match. So we open it in Wireshark: uncompressed ST 2110 video, 150,000 multicast flows, and a failover trick that will make any network engineer smile.
🎓 I asked the crew HOURS of questions that didn't fit in this video, the full behind-the-scenes interviews are on NetworkChuck Academy: https://ntck-ac.co/fifa?utm_source=youtubeu0026utm_medium=videou0026utm_campaign=fifa_world_cup_2026u0026utm_content=fifa_main_tour
RESOURCES / LINKS:
🎮 Play the Backrooms of the IBC (built on a Hostinger VPS with a Hermes agent): https://srv732026.hstgr.cloud
📚 THE SIGNAL — the World Cup networking comic I made for my kids: https://srv732026.hstgr.cloud/comic/
🛠️ Wireshark (decode packets yourself): https://www.wireshark.org
🌐 Official IBC Tours site: https://ibctours.tv
📺 The Hermes video (the AI agent that built the game): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQEgIo4Juxg
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – The World Cup is made in Dallas
1:29 – Following one match: Boston → the IBC → the world
3:06 – How a match gets "made" 1,500 miles from the stadium
4:32 – The fiber (and the red/blue trick)
7:08 – Multicast Martin and 150,000 flows
11:52 – The thing I built at 1AM on a Hostinger VPS
14:10 – The people who make the World Cup
16:07 – Decoding a REAL World Cup match in Wireshark
21:45 – Addie's question: the sound of the ball
23:20 – The stadium, the backup plan, and the teardown
29:30 – A prayer for the stressed
FEATURING (huge thanks to the crew who make the World Cup — and this video — possible):
👤 Christoph Barbet — Head of Broadcast Infrastructure, HBS (Host Broadcast Services)
👤 "Multicast Martin" — broadcast SDN / TFC
👤 Alex — Master Control Room Supervisor
👤 Wolfgang Herman — IBC Communications Engineer
👤 Mick — Audio Listener
👤 Anthony u0026 Colin — Layer 1 / Broadcast Support
👤 Steve — Control Systems u0026 Dashboards
👤 Gavin — Stadium Manager, ATu0026T Stadium
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