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Harmonic’s VOS®360 Live Streaming Platform leverages the flexibility of cloud infrastructures to meet the demanding and complex requirements of live video streaming. The fully managed solution is cloud-neutral and runs on a wide range of public cloud platforms, efficiently handling all stages of the media processing and delivery chain.

The platform is built around docker containers and microservices using Kubernetes orchestration. It offers a rich API and a range of easy to use features accessible at any time. Live streaming channels are fully managed by Harmonic’s DevOps team to ensure the highest level of availability and reliability.

The VOS360 Live Streaming Platform optimizes live video delivery with flexible and real-time scaling to handle peaks in viewership, which is extremely useful for live sports. The platform uses a range of technologies to dynamically select the best available paths between content delivery networks and caching clusters.

Supporting a range of functionalities, including live and file transcoding, packaging and origin, dynamic real-time CDN selection, targeted advertising, VOD, SVOD, time-shift and network DVR, the VOS360 platform simplifies delivery from source to screen and accelerates time to market for new revenue-generating streaming services. The platform ensures high-quality streaming through exceptional encoding efficiency and by delivering low latency, utilizing advanced compression engines to reduce bandwidth by an average of 50% along with the latest developments in artificial intelligence.

Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team guarantees the highest levels of availability and reliability. All IT infrastructures, media processing and delivery applications are always fully functional, with maximum uptime. This takes the guesswork out of system upgrades and enhancements.

 Today, the VOS360 Live Streaming Platform powers millions of simultaneous streams, thousands of live channels, countless VOD requests and hundreds of petabytes of storage and delivery.

 

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Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software is the most advanced media processing and delivery software for private data centers. It runs on a wide range of COTS hardware and virtualization layers to power demanding and complex playout, broadcast and OTT systems. Through the VOS Hub connection users can move an entire video platform from a private data center to public cloud and vice versa, with ease.

VOS software makes it simple and fast to launch and manage end-to-end professional media workflows in private data centers, as well as ingest live or file-based content, including uncompressed video over IP. With VOS software, users can create schedules, play out channels and process all content for OTT streaming and broadcast delivery, with ease.

Advanced orchestration capabilities allow users to connect and synchronize all microservices for every workflow. VOS software abstracts and manages IT infrastructures using load-balancing mechanisms to optimize the use of resources and manage redundancy with minimum overhead, eliminating the need for siloed systems.

The software is infrastructure neutral, supporting a wide range of COTS hardware and virtualization layers such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Openshift, and other bare metal configurations. This neutrality ensures complete compatibility, making it easy to align IT and business preferences. With VOS software, on-premises deployments can be backed up in a public cloud environment in just minutes.

Built-in, AI-enabled and globally deployed VOS core compression technology reduces the typical bandwidth needed for OTT delivery by about half.  VOS software is built for agile, hybrid video service delivery, with capabilities for satellite broadcasting, full statmux and OTT streaming. It supports a wide range of use cases, including live streaming, time-shifting, network DVR, targeted ad insertion, packaging and origin on the fly, from one simple platform.

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Harmonic’s VOS®360 Channel Origination & Distribution Platform is an advanced, fully managed, channel origination and distribution platform for total content control. The schedule-based delivery solution enables the creation of linear channels, live events and streams, direct to consumers or syndication partners, at lightning speed, through one simple platform, without deploying complex infrastructure.

Through the platform, users have creative control over sources, assets, schedules, monitoring and metrics, with real-time agility. The platform ensures fast channel origination by allowing users to fine-tune the output for each channel, including graphics, animations, captions, subtitles and embedded signaling.

Adapting and creating channel playlists is simple with the VOS360 platform. Users can build a playlist for clips and graphics manually, use built-in scheduling, or import from an external traffic system. The VOS API also gives users the freedom to create and manage with their choice of external playout control.

All in the cloud, the platform is built around docker containers and microservices using Kubernetes orchestration. With the VOS360 Channel Origination & Distribution Platform, all live streaming channels are fully managed by Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team to ensure high availability and reliability.

Using the platform, customers can seize every opportunity to create value, including creating pop-up channels based on major events, testing new markets and launch new brands, leveraging the internet to optimize syndication distribution and repurposing content to increase ROI.

Harmonic’s advanced DevOps team guarantees the highest levels of availability and reliability. All IT infrastructures, media processing and delivery applications are always fully functional, with maximum uptime. This takes the guesswork out of system upgrades and enhancements.

 

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Harmonic’s MediaGrid shared storage solution is an ideal fit for digital media applications requiring shared, real-time storage, such as ingest, playout, archive, edit-in-place, collaborative editing, transcoding and over-the-top (OTT) adaptive bitrate streaming. Simple to deploy, manage and scale, MediaGrid storage accelerates file-based workflows and provides the ability to manage the entire asset lifecycle. The system reduces the cost of storing media nearline, making it practical to economically deploy multi-petabyte digital media libraries and archives for video on demand (VOD) and other applications.

The MediaGrid system is purpose-built from the ground up to deliver high bandwidth and consistent low latency for video. Media operations can start with smaller MediaGrid systems — as little as 24 TB of usable capacity — and seamlessly scale to petabytes of capacity and tens of gigabytes per second of throughput. An industry-leading, high-density storage option — up to 504 TB of raw capacity in 5 RU — can reduce rack space by up to 60% and lower storage-related costs by up to 30%, minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) through its exceptional price/performance capabilities.

MediaGrid features include:

High Scalability
The MediaGrid system is based on a fully distributed scale-out architecture, resulting in increased performance as additional storage nodes are added. As the system is expanded, bandwidth and capacity increase linearly, actually improving access speed to content already on the system.

Simple and Cost-Effective
Based on standard hardware components and cost-effective Ethernet technology, MediaGrid system is economical to purchase and maintain. There’s no need for file system reconfiguration as you scale, or for file system defragmentation as the file system ages.

Optimized for Media Workflow
The MediaGrid shared storage works with dozens of leading media systems, including Harmonic Spectrum media servers and ProMedia™ X Origin multiscreen media servers. It also enables collaborative editing workflows with nonlinear editors, such as Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Avid® Media Composer® and Adobe® Premiere® Pro.

Reliability and Availability
MediaGrid systems have no single point of failure, and leverage features such as dual active-active controllers with transparent failover, redundant data paths to protect against storage node failures, and transparent client failover to protect against controller failures. No down time is required even for activities such as software and firmware upgrades or adding storage nodes.

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The Harmonic ProStream X video stream processor leverages advances in IT infrastructure to provide high-performance, high-throughput stream processing for mission-critical MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC delivery applications. The platform possesses a variety of advanced video processing capabilities, including multiplexing, scrambling, splicing and blackout switching. Featuring 10 Gbps throughput, it also serves as a high-capacity video gateway. The ProStream X stream processor runs on a 1-RU, COTS Intel® appliance and pairs with the Harmonic Electra™ X2 advanced media processor to deliver a compact, software-based solution for encoding and distributing superior-quality IP video streams.



ProStream X features include:

High-Throughput Processing
The ProStream X stream processor offers the choice of quad 1-GbE, dual 10-GbE or ASI I/O. The high-throughput 10-GbE option supports up to 2,000 simultaneous multiplexing and scrambling services. Gateway capabilities include socket address flipping, ASI-to-IP conversion and IP mirroring.

Scrambling
ProStream X is the industry’s first stream processor to support 128-bit DVB CSA3 encryption, integrated and certified by Cisco and Irdeto, making it the most secure stream processing solution for distributing UHD broadcast services. DVB CSA2, IPTV AES and BISS scrambling are also supported.

Statistical Multiplexing
Harmonic’s DiviTrackIP™ option integrates statistical multiplexing and IP switching by connecting ProStream X systems with remote Harmonic Electra X2 encoders across a LAN or WAN, allowing any ProStream X in the network to efficiently manage the encoders’ statmux pools.

Splicing
ProStream X processor supports both live-to-live splicing, which allows to switch between main and alternative live feeds seamlessly, with no ETR 290 errors at output.

“Pay As You Grow” Scalability
As processing needs evolve, the software-based ProStream X platform makes it easy to incrementally add or upgrade I/O modules and firmware licenses, simplifying scalability and extending the system’s value.

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The ViBE CP9000 contribution encoder from Harmonic addresses the call for preserving video quality at the front of the broadcast chain with the ability to process uncompressed UHD signals at eight times the bitrate of current HD sources, up to 160 Mbps. The platform encodes content in a single slice in real time via HEVC & AVC (H.264), today’s most advanced compression standard. Up to two UHD or eight HD video channels, and 16 audio channels, can be encoded on the 1-RU chassis.

The compact and rugged ViBE CP9000 encoder is a perfect fit for DSNG vehicles, teleports and flyaway packages. An ultra-low latency encoding mode, less than 100 ms, offers broadcasters the chance to get a true jump on the competition, and also enables home/remote production application.

ViBE CP9000 features include:

Comprehensive UHD Workflow
The ViBE CP9000 encoder is part of a comprehensive Harmonic UHD workflow that includes all phases of the broadcast chain, including contribution, file ingest, collaborative post production, encoding, high-speed transcoding and delivery. This end-to-end approach makes it possible to quickly and cost-effectively deploy a live UHD channel over existing DTT, DTH, cable, telco and OTT networks.

Flexible Deployment
Simple and cost-effective to deploy, the ViBE CP9000 encoder is interoperable with most professional decoders, including the Harmonic ProView™ 7100 IRD. It integrates seamlessly with the Harmonic Amethyst™ III smart redundancy switch as well, enabling a compact 1+1 UHD redundant solution in just 3 RU. DVB/SMPTE standards are supported.

HDR Support
Compatible with the Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) and SMPTE ST 2084 (PQ) HDR formats, the ViBE CP9000 encoder is ready for the next phases of UHD content delivery. As a result, image detail, sharpness and color gradients are preserved throughout the distribution process — right up to the consumer’s UHD display.

Pay-As-You-Grow Scalability
License-based pricing assures that customers pay only for the features they need. Video and audio codecs and formats are easily added to the ViBE CP9000 encoder via firmware upgrade, enabling a scalable migration path that provides operational flexibility and business continuity, and extends the system’s value.

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With Harmonic’s award-winning VOS360 media processing SaaS, content and service providers can move their offerings to the cloud and quickly launch new OTT services, without investing heavily in infrastructure. Harmonic’s solutions support the entire media processing workflow from ingest to distribution, increasing efficiency and cost savings; provide elastic capacity to support new services or peak events; and offer pay-as-you-grow pricing, boosting monetization.

Recently, Harmonic enhanced VOS360 SaaS with channel origination in the cloud capabilities for file-based and live streams. These new functionalities provide operators with support for graphics, branding, and digital video effects (DVE) for both file-based and live workflows in addition to pre-existing capabilities such as encoding, encryption and distribution.

By adding channel origination capabilities to VOS360 SaaS, Harmonic is helping drive the transition to software-based and cloud workflows, allowing video content and service providers to launch OTT offerings faster, increase their operational efficiencies and reduce opex and capex.

Unique playout capabilities and benefits include:

Live and file-based playout: Beyond just processing of live streams in the cloud, VOS360 SaaS allows video content and service providers to deliver file-based content from clips and graphics that augment the live streams. With other key processes (i.e., traffic, billing, asset management) already integrated or present in the cloud storage environment, operators can deliver complete channels that are comprised of live and file-based content all within the cloud infrastructure, without the need for conventional playout solutions. This opens up new monetization opportunities for operators.

Streamlined control: Harmonic offers seamless integration for control systems in the cloud to streamline playout management. An API and user-based controls for the playlist enable users to manage channels, as needed. With the control system present in the cloud environment, users can focus their attention on other important tasks as opposed to continuously checking the playlist status.

Reduced operational costs: Service operators using cloud solutions for OTT delivery would normally perform playout operations on-premises (i.e., playback of video clips, graphics and branding) and send a live stream into the cloud, where they would then apply different delivery platform profiles for broadcast and OTT. Now that VOS360 SaaS includes playout capabilities, operators can run entire channels in the cloud. This dramatically reduces operational costs, because operators no longer need physical infrastructure on-premises. Pay-as-you-go pricing for VOS360 allows operators to realize ROI in the shortest time possible.

Orchestrated management: Playout functionality is built into the VOS360 SaaS solution. There are centralized services for management, profiles, tracking of user accounts, billing, DevOps, interfaces, and more.

Maintenance and monitoring: Harmonic’s VOS360 SaaS is fully maintained and monitored by Harmonic to keep services operational, resulting in better quality of experience for end customers.

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Goose is the most affordable OTT SaaS platform in the global market, and we help you to monetize your VOD + Live channnels with SVOD, TVOD, AVOD by providing a self-serving white label platform, using which you can launch your own branded video streaming service in a most efficient way.

Highlights:

1)Live TV and VOD in one platform

2)streaming service across multi devices

3)Develop your offline reseller distribution network

4)Quick time to market (30 days)

5)No setup fee and upgrade fee

6)Zero-coding maintenance

7)Flexible user acquisition options

8)Vcoin exchange/promotion

9)Pre-paid and post-paid payment supported

10)Abstract special content and recommend(e.g.Sports, Live to VOD)

Consume » User Experience » Apps & Platforms » Consumer apps and platforms »

With Vizzi, users get an end-to-end solution that covers every aspect of the OTT chain, adapting to every specific requirement: Media Preparation, Management, Distribution, and Consumption, with no loose ends.

VIZZI is a powerful, robust, and cost-effective end-to-end video platform that combines in one place all the flexible and scalable tools that Media companies, Broadcasters, Mobile Service Providers, Telecoms, ISP´s and Pay TV operators to need, for the dynamic delivery of Live TV and VOD services across any IP-based device, deployed on the cloud, on-premises or using a hybrid architecture.

Media Preparation: 

• Record, Ingest, Transcode, Playout, Stream, Encode, Decode, Packaging, Catch-up Storage, Metadata enrichment;


• Live Channels Ingest;


• EPG Ingest.

Media Management:

• Intuitive CMS Backend;


• User Management;


• Rights Management;


• Catch-up, nPVR;


• Assets and Metadata Management


• Analytics


• Flexible Monetization Models;


• DVR Scheduler;

Distribution:

• AOS and CDN;


• Encryption DRM


• Packaging

Consumption:

• White-label Player;


• Multiple Devices Support and OS Support

Experience:

• Catch-up;


• Piracy Protection;


• Visual Designer.

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Nextologies' customizable turn-key IPTV & OTT solutions enable media companies and service providers to rapidly serve new platforms. This allows you to manage, distribute, syndicate and monetize your content cost-effectively with minimal risk. The result is an improved personalized cross-device TV experience for consumers seeking either VOD, live, or catch-up TV.

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Scalable and smart, M2A LIVE, provides some of the world's largest sports broadcasters with highly reliable, low latency, highest quality live streams across a huge number of devices.

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Our playout facility helps with originating and manipulating content to your specific needs. The Nextologies Transmission, Distribution and Content Delivery Network (CDN) for IPTV and linear television broadcasts, gets your channel or content around the world in the shortest amount of time, at the most competitive rates, while assuring the best quality of service. Using our custom solution for automated playout, we have the ability to provide a full 24/7, 365 channel playout from a file based solution.

Nextologies master control and playout operators have the ability to insert commercial spots and programming into any of our content partners live channels ensuring your schedule stays accurate and profitable.

Using our custom designed time shifting module, we can time shift your signal 24+ hours and into multiple time zones.

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A cohesive, highly scalable, micro service for delivery focused Media Asset Management. Due to the tight integration with the VIPE publishing platform, it reduces complexity in the infrastructure, resulting in a simple and reliable supply chain.

In the era of multichannel playout, file-based workflows and existing channel management systems, the specific delivery requirements often result in a complex infrastructure. VIPE MAM is designed to offer transparent (automated) workflows, resulting in increased control, reliability and efficiency.

VIPE MAM manages both primary as well as secondary media files. It handles all aspects of the workflow from ingest, QC, Soft parting, subtitles/audio management to enhancing/modifying any asset data. All metadata is fully indexed and searchable. Usability experience is powered by elastic search, particularly useful for large volume databases.

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Edgeware’s StreamBuilder does the preparation of live and VoD content that is necessary for OTT distribution to any device. Accurate segmentation of streams, storing content for time-shift services, just in time ABR packaging to any format and any device (HLS, DASH, MSS) including encryption are all offered in the StreamBuilder product family. Add to this our innovative technology to create tailor made channels and live streams using the Virtual Channel Creation, our Ad Insertion technology, OCR-based transcoding of Subtitles and the possibility to deploy and run the whole lot on a wide range of cloud platforms or on regular COTS machines!

StreamBuilder includes the following products:

• Ingest and Segmentation


• Time-shift TV


• Packager and Protection


• Ad Enabler


• OCR Subtitling

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MultiStream Sync feature can be used to display multiple camera angles all synchronized on a single screen, in which the viewer is able to freely move streams around based on their preferred experience. VisualOn partners with KDDI to stream the FIVB Volleyball World Cup Japan 2019 broadcast by Fuji Television, pioneering the use of ultra-low latency CMAF and multiple camera angles for live sports in Japan. VisualOn supports multi-stream playback; decoding is done via hardware, software or both, depending on device capabilities – on 5G and other high bandwidth networks. South Korea's KT, the world's first commercialized 5G services, also partners with VisualOn on 5G and Multistream playback. KT’s Olleh TV Mobile, powered by VMP, provides low latency, time-synchronized playback supporting multiple streams/camera angles for live streaming, 360-degree, HDR and UHD support, for the best over the top (OTT) video experience.   Besides, VisualOn will present its technology to take advantage of multiple devices. For example how to play one or multiple video streams on multiple devices while keeping frame-accurate synchronization across devices.

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Adaptive NightVision enables low-light or dark scenes to display more clearly for a superior viewing experience directly on subscribers’ mobile devices, which fulfills the promise of a high-quality, TV Everywhere viewing experience – on any screen. Adaptive NightVision is built on an advanced algorithm that analyzes the video, in real-time, for contrast, brightness, color saturation and key metrics.

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Vimond VIA is a cloud based , modular and scalable Video Content Management system (Video CMS) that grows with your needs, to serve your OTT audiences wherever they are. Content can be streamed from local or external and remote sources.‍From media ingestion, through asset management, content curation and distribution, VIA ensures a great viewer experience and efficient workflows for your users and editorial teams at a global scale. Vimond VIA scales automatically to accommodate peak viewing volumes, keeping infrastructure costs efficient.

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VIA Orchestrate is a workflow engine to help you manage your video pipeline from ingest through transcoding and DRM encryption, to playout. VIA Orchestrate makes video workflow management simple,  and does not require editorial staff to be video processing experts.  Video can be ingested from live and VOD content and transcoded.

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VIA Live allows you to manage linear and event based live streams, automating the creation of VOD assets for distribution to OTT platforms and multimedia services. This significantly reduces the amount of manual work, making the process more efficient and cost effective.By combining the broadcasters' channels and electronic program guide (EPG) data, VIA Live is a one stop shop for channel planning and monitoring. Monitor inbound live feeds on a streamlined timeline, and use imported EPGs as a basis for program creation, complete with content ingest and scheduling.

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Virtual Channel Creation helps broadcasters and content providers to increase relevance and reach both for their viewers and advertisers by creating regionalized and customized online channels in a cost-efficient manner. The solution has proven especially valuable when adding regional news or weather to national channels or to provide regionalized ad insertion.

Virtual Channel Creation is based on a unique technology where content is stitched together from various sources into a channel. Compared to the needs typically posed by other systems, it does not require the significant investments in production, encoding and storage capacity.

Regional channels are often encoded and stored as full channels, meaning the national content is encoded and stored multiple times – once per regional channel. With Virtual Channel Creation, national content only needs to be stored and encoded once. Regional content can then be stitched into the national channel to create each full regional channel. As a result, encoder and storage needs are reduced. If using cloud-based encoders, the cost savings enabled by this is significant. Similarly, the need for NAS storage, which is required to create Live to VoD content, is reduced.

Virtual Channel Creation also provides an option to use lower bitrate options of the regional content, reducing the encoder and storage need even further. Use cases demonstrate a 95% encoder capacity saving for national channels and an 89% encoder saving for regional channels when using the option to use a lower bitrate variant for the regional channels.

It can also be used to insert public safety messages, as well as efficiently manage restrictions in content distribution rights by inserting replacement segments, programs or providing a blackout solution, even for time-shifted content.

Virtual Channel Creation resides within StreamBuilder, providing broadcasters and content providers with segmentation, packaging and subtitling functionality needed for internet-based distribution.

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With Harmonic’s award-winning VOS360 media processing SaaS, content and service providers can move their offerings to the cloud and quickly launch new OTT services, without investing heavily in infrastructure. Harmonic’s solutions support the entire media processing workflow from ingest to distribution, increasing efficiency and cost savings; provide elastic capacity to support new services or peak events; and offer pay-as-you-grow pricing, boosting monetization.

Recently, Harmonic enhanced VOS360 SaaS with channel origination in the cloud capabilities for file-based and live streams. These new functionalities provide operators with support for graphics, branding, and digital video effects (DVE) for both file-based and live workflows in addition to pre-existing capabilities such as encoding, encryption and distribution.

By adding channel origination capabilities to VOS360 SaaS, Harmonic is helping drive the transition to software-based and cloud workflows, allowing video content and service providers to launch OTT offerings faster, increase their operational efficiencies and reduce opex and capex.

Unique playout capabilities and benefits include:

Live and file-based playout: Beyond just processing of live streams in the cloud, VOS360 SaaS allows video content and service providers to deliver file-based content from clips and graphics that augment the live streams. With other key processes (i.e., traffic, billing, asset management) already integrated or present in the cloud storage environment, operators can deliver complete channels that are comprised of live and file-based content all within the cloud infrastructure, without the need for conventional playout solutions. This opens up new monetization opportunities for operators.

Streamlined control: Harmonic offers seamless integration for control systems in the cloud to streamline playout management. An API and user-based controls for the playlist enable users to manage channels, as needed. With the control system present in the cloud environment, users can focus their attention on other important tasks as opposed to continuously checking the playlist status.

Reduced operational costs: Service operators using cloud solutions for OTT delivery would normally perform playout operations on-premises (i.e., playback of video clips, graphics and branding) and send a live stream into the cloud, where they would then apply different delivery platform profiles for broadcast and OTT. Now that VOS360 SaaS includes playout capabilities, operators can run entire channels in the cloud. This dramatically reduces operational costs, because operators no longer need physical infrastructure on-premises. Pay-as-you-go pricing for VOS360 allows operators to realize ROI in the shortest time possible.

Orchestrated management: Playout functionality is built into the VOS360 SaaS solution. There are centralized services for management, profiles, tracking of user accounts, billing, DevOps, interfaces, and more.

Maintenance and monitoring: Harmonic’s VOS360 SaaS is fully maintained and monitored by Harmonic to keep services operational, resulting in better quality of experience for end customers.

Publish » Internet Distribution » Internet Distribution » Internet distribution platforms (incl. social media) »

StormGeo Studio provides a low-cost and flexible solution for media outlets to create custom weather content. Developed with award-winning Singular.Live technology, the platform is cloud and subscription-based.

Key features and benefits:

• Access to world class weather forecasting and data intelligence.


• A cloud and subscription based software built with award-winning graphics from Singular.Live.


• Requires no dedicated hardware or upfront investments.


• Easily integrates into your existing SDI, NDI or streaming media workflows.

Workflow and easily accessible:

• Built on common web standards.


• StormGeo Studio API’s for interaction, templates and rendering capabilities are easily integrated into your workflow.


• StormGeo Studio runs across all bowser enabled devices without the need for 3rd party plugins.

StormGeo Studio opens a lot of possibilities for publishers, such as on-demand weather data for over the top (OTT) playouts, adaptive graphics across different devices and the possibility to offer regionalized weather data to their users and viewers.

Leslie Kajomovitz

Product Manager Consultant for Media Production tools

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IMF support within CLEAR includes the ability to create deliverables for different platforms (Netflix, iTunes etc.) and specifications (like DPP) from an IMF package. CLEAR also includes the world’s first IMF Player that provides the ability to preview, playback, review and distribute over a streaming proxy a Composition Playlist (CPL) with all its essences including video, audio and captions. This enables collaboration and decision making in the workflow using proxies without having to necessarily access the original IMF package in high-res each time a CPL has to be played back. The IMF support in CLEAR is built using the product’s native Hybrid Cloud architecture that supports distributed workflows, and allows packaging and delivery of IMF packages from remote locations, public cloud infrastructure (Amazon/Azure) and customer premises.

Key Features

Ability to create deliverables for DPP (AS-11) and iTunes from an IMF package
Future-readiness with support for SMPTE’s upcoming Applications (beyond 2 and 2e) based on RDD 44 specification
Supports ingest of Complete IMF packages and Supplemental IMF packages
Provides users the ability to work with IMF Compositions created using any of the desktop CPL edit solutions (Clipster, Color Front, Gray Meta and Netflix CPL Editor, among others) over streaming proxies
Allows users to perform:
Search
Playback
Upload (Complete Packages, Partial/Supplemental Packages, only Updated Essences)
Download (Complete Packages, Partial/Supplemental Packages, only Updated Essences)
Distribution of IMF packages (Complete Packages, Supplemental Packages)
Distribution of Rendered and Transcoded Output (Video Files instead of Packages)

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Easel TV OTT delivers a complete streaming media/OTT cloud video service to the world's leading consumer devices.

The Easel TV OTT Dashboard provides a rich set of cloud features in an extensive suite of management tools; a powerful CRM and CMS management system which provides content and user management, promotional tools and reporting, all through a single portal.

Our award-winning template-driven consumer applications provide a feature-rich, intuitive and cohesive user experience across web, TV and mobile devices.

We avoid expensive multi-partner solutions by having a ready-made horizontal systems integrated OTT service. In this way, we look to minimise the risk and increase the return on your investment by using an OTT VOD platform that is already up and running, tried, tested and approved.

Built on Amazon and Microsoft cloud technology, and the world's largest CDNs, Easel TV OTT provides an immediate low-cost route to market, using a stable, scalable cloud service.

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Easel TV OTT is a multi-tenant streaming media video platform supporting film, TV, lifestyle or Brand entertainment services on the world’s leading consumer devices (PCs, tablets & mobiles, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, Roku, Virgin TiVo etc.).

Easel TV's underlying OTT eco-system includes content upload, encoding, hosting, formatting, content protection and distribution across a multi-CDN architecture to offer the highest possible quality service, globally.

Our suite of editorial, marketing, administrative and analytical management tools support all aspects of an OTT service, from content ingest, product pricing, packaging, promotion, device and consumer entitlements, usage analytics, wholesale billing and more, and are operated through a single intuitive user interface; one supplier solution, one complete administrative dashboard. Making Suggested TV one of the simplest and most comprehensive carrier-grade OTT SaaS services on the market.

We are all about providing affordable, high-quality stable OTT services, fast, with the most complete, easy-to-use, full suite of management and editorial tools on the market.

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Skype for Content Creators is a feature that is native to the Windows 10 Skype App that allows you to simply turn your group video calls in to content such as live streams, podcasts and video. Any NDI® enabled software such as Wirecast, Xsplit & Vmix will be able to natively see the Skype callers as an audio/ video input. In addition, Skype TX for Broadcasting has become an Emmy® award winner and a staple across Tier 1 news organizations such as ABC, CNN & BBC. In 2018, Skype TX was integrated natively across the Village of Nations at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, establishing itself as a solution that demonstrates scale, affordability and quality at one of the most prominent sporting events in the calendar.

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Thi product is intended for Chief Technology Officer, Head of Product, Product Manager, Business Head, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Strategy Director, Head Of Strategy, Owner, and Founder

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The Experience Cloud- a low code SaaS platform that helps Media Publishers & Content Creators globally to manage their content in one central location, create intuitive apps across multiple devices, engage with users on a personal level and monetise content in various models.

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This product is intended for Chief Technology Officer, Head of Product, Product Manager, Business Head, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Strategy Director, Head Of Strategy, Owner, and Founder.

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Build your own branded content apps, distribute your content everywhere and manage all your apps from one central system. Quickly preview & test before you deploy and make unlimited changes at no extra cost. This product is intended for Chief Technology Officer, Head of Product, Product Manager, Business Head, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Strategy Director, Head Of Strategy, Owner, and Founder.

Better UX = Better ROI

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Get a 30K ft. view of your content portfolio and access performance insights. Leverage a comprehensive headless CMS that allows you to import, create and manage flexible content structures and manage metadata all in one interface. "This product is intended for Chief Technology Officer, Head of Product, Product Manager, Business Head, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Strategy Director, Head Of Strategy, Owner, and Founder."

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Content Delivery Network, CDN, accelerates delivery of content to users worldwide.

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  • Zero packet loss between nodes
  
  
  • Multi-server and route redundancy for load optimization
  
  
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GO Live solution consists of Contego CAS/DRM,  GO Live back-end, pre-integrated partner equipment for encoding and streaming, secure client and apps. The end-to-end solution enables deploying the service within 30 days! The GO Live multiscreen solution will enable you to: • Stream live-TV to iOS and Android devices• Expand TV offerings outside a fixed network footprint• Obtain new customers and create new revenue streams• Retain customers and increase loyalty• Increase revenue of existing customer base• Improve customer satisfaction• Improve understanding of customer viewing habits with our monitoring system

The most important features of GO Live are: • Live-TV, Start-over TV, Pause live-TV, Trick play and Catch-up• TV guide with catch-up support• Personalized channel listing & EPG• Fast channel zapping• Intuitive and user-friendly interface• Support for native language & subtitling• Customizable to fit operator branding• Google Cast and AirPlay support

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Media supply chains have traditionally been built with the focus being on servicing linear content, with digital workflows added after the fact. These dual linear and digital chains create duplication, slow agility and increase OPEX. Fuse Publisher gives broadcasters and content owners the ability to bring these siloed systems and workflows together, delivering a unified, digital first supply chain, lowering latency, duplication, operational costs and TCO, while increasing agility, productivity, speed to market and revenue. This shared infrastructure enables the ability to automatically syndicate content to a defined set of endpoints and distributors, maximizing advertising revenue and delivering content when, where and how end users want it.

Using Fuse Publisher for….

Improving operational efficiency and quality

Fuse Publisher orchestrates and automates asset management workflows so that operational staff can simply manage by exception based on the step validation and alerting Fuse provides. Operational expertise on repetitive tasks is reduced and can be focused on quality enhancements.

Decrease Time to Market

Fuse Publisher's script driven workflows combine with out of the box integrations to major asset processing systems, such transcoding, stitching, QC, encryption, fast file transfer. This combination enables complex workflows orchestrations to be quickly configured thus enabling new business opportunities to be implemented at pace. Fuse open API’s, provide a means to implement integrations with all your existing systems in order to integrate into the data and event driven workflows.

Scale at Speed

Fuse’s Cloud native architecture and auto-scaling delivers the necessary on-demand scaling to meet new business challenges. Fuse seamlessly manages all aspects of scaling thus removing the headache and freeing up cycles from the Operations team.

Timely Delivery

By Integrating Schedule metadata, Fuse can drive workflow automation and enable alerting for management by exception. These aspects help ensure that the necessary asset packages and metadata files are prepared, validated and distributed aligned to the schedule.

Monetize » Sell Content & Advertising » Advertising Systems » Advertising sales systems »

Introducing EMSSThe Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS) standardises the interaction between a Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) server and the video player.

The exchange of metadata is not standardised, resulting in multiple proprietary systems. This means that custom integrations for SSAI are almost always necessary for each SSAI solution, which then leads to vendor lock-in.

EMSS SpecificationThe specification discusses the standard for metadata, how that metadata is transported in HLS or DASH, and how the metadata should be processed.

This specification touches on announcing and annotating ads to the viewer, modifying UI during ad playback, enforcing business rules for skipping over ads and beaconing.

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What is HESP?

HESP is an HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) streaming protocol that enables streaming services to be delivered with sub second latency, with a significantly reduced streaming bandwidth, at scale. An impressive list of improvements, further augmented by significantly reduced zapping times, pushing viewer experience and engagement to the next level.

HESP allows you to stream with, on average, a latency that is 7 times lower than current industry standard low-latency HAS approaches. An end-to-end latency of up to 400ms can be achieved. Low enough to enable new interactive TV formats and services. When using the HESP protocol the average zapping time is 20 times faster than with industry standard low latency streaming approaches. With a zapping time of less than 100ms, the channel change will happen in the blink of an eye.

What is the HESP Alliance?

The HESP Alliance was launched on the 1st July 2020. The HESP Alliance was launched by founding members; THEO Technologies and Synamedia. With the aim to bring together streaming video vendors and media companies to provide superior online video quality of experience at reduced cost through standardising and advancing the High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP) and marketing of HESP solutions.

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THEOplayer is the Universal Video Player that enables hundreds of leading payTV and OTT service providers, broadcasters, and publishers worldwide including CNN, NBC, Telenet, KPN, and Swisscom. Through its feature-rich SDKs and wide video ecosystem pre-integrations, THEO enables video service providers to quickly bring a consistent video playback experience across any device and platform.

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OpenTV Video Platform is the next level, operator grade, business centric, streaming video solution, that delivers dynamic sports, media & entertainment content, in the home or on the go, returning exceptional ROI through its content & services management console (OpCon). We have created a solution that can be packaged to excite consumers, keep them consuming, thus reducing churn & creating paths for revenue growth opportunity. A cloud-based platform for operational efficiency where disparate services can be merged to streamline operations, get the out of the plumbing and back to the business of keeping and growing subscribers. OpenTV Video Platform allows operator to design out complexity, in order to launchpad future innovation and build new and interesting consumer offers. Under the hood the analytically driven operational & business engines enable fine-tuning of content campaigns, content promotion, targeted advertising and video-commerce to develop the business offers. The (UI-UX) user experience and personalisation elements can be focus group trialled and if this delivers on the intention (e.g. increase VOD, download to go etc.)  and be implemented instantly on the fly. Choose OpenTV Video Platform to usher in the next level of exciting sports, media & entertainment consumer video services with a cost-effective, secure, intelligent, revenue generating, video streaming solution for your future.

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Brightcove Player delivers a rich, cross-platform playback experience and includes built-in support for advertising, analytics, and content protection. It automatically updates players when new fixes are deployed and management APIs make it easy to control configurations and to push updates across online properties and viral embeds. Brightcove Player supports HLS across all major mobile and desktop platforms for a simplified workflow.