SAN JOSE, Calif., April 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic
(NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery
infrastructure, announced today that it is bringing the powerful
broadcast playout capabilities from its market-leading Spectrum™
media server to Harmonic's VOS™ Cloud media processing platform and
VOS 360 cloud media processing SaaS solution. The new functionality
in both VOS offerings includes support for graphics, branding, and
digital video effects (DVE) for both file-based and live workflows.
Leading innovation in the cloud media processing market, Harmonic
is helping drive the transition to software-based and cloud
workflows, allowing video content and service providers to launch
broadcast and OTT offerings faster, increase their operational
efficiencies and reduce OPEX and CAPEX.
"Today's video content and service providers are turning to the
cloud for video preparation and delivery because of the increased
workflow efficiency and flexibility that it provides, along with
other benefits such as scalability and agility," said Bart Spriester, senior vice president, video
products at Harmonic. "Bringing the playout capabilities found in
our Spectrum media servers to the VOS Cloud and VOS 360 solutions
opens up additional cost savings for operators, speeding up their
operations and enabling additional types of monetization, such as
brand reinforcement, pop-up channels, rapid platform deployment and
expansion, graphic avails and more. As two of the industry's first
cloud-native solutions, the VOS offerings are making a huge impact
on the way in which operators create and deliver video."
The VOS Cloud solution enables content and service providers to
manage the video production and delivery workflow for broadcast and
OTT on public or private cloud infrastructure. With playout
functionality in the cloud, operators can perform channel
origination and playout and drive further workflow simplification.
The VOS Cloud solution handles a wide range of channel origination
tasks, from accessing external storage to retrieve files and
normalizing them as needed, adding secondary events like graphics
and triggers and ensuring that the content is delivered in formats
appropriate for OTT and broadcast. In addition, operators can
support orchestrated VOD and live-to-VOD playout as well as
streamlined acquisition of file-based assets.
These playout capabilities are also available for the VOS 360
SaaS (www.vos.tv), which is hosted in the public cloud and
maintained and monitored by Harmonic. As part of the unique VOS 360
service, Harmonic provides around-the-clock DevOps coverage, a
professional dedicated 24/7 monitoring and maintenance service
focused on keeping services operational with rapid response time,
resulting in better QoE for end customers.
Harmonic's open architecture strategy allows seamless
integration with ecosystem partners to ensure the delivery of true
end-to-end OTT video cloud services. The VOS solutions have been
successfully deployed in a wide range of environments and usage
models, including live OTT services by a leading North American
service provider in an OpenStack private cloud environment in
conjunction with Mirantis, and are currently being used in numerous
on-air service trials worldwide.
Harmonic will showcase its latest innovations for broadcast and
OTT video delivery — including cloud playout on VOS Cloud and VOS
360 offerings — at the 2017 NAB Show, booth SU1210. Further
information about Harmonic and the company's products is available
at www.harmonicinc.com.
About Harmonic
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) is the
worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure for emerging
television and video services. Harmonic enables customers to
produce, deliver and monetize amazing video experiences, with
unequalled business agility and operational efficiency, by
providing market-leading innovation, high-quality service and
compelling total-cost-of-ownership. More information is available
at www.harmonicinc.com.
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