On 11 September 2014, Harmonic announced a new multiscreen packaging and origination capabilities for its VOS™ software-based media processing platform. Unifying the entire broadcast and multiscreen media processing chain, VOS now includes packaging-on-the-fly and low-latency origin server functionalities originally developed for Harmonic’s award-winning ProMedia® family of integrated multiscreen applications, as well as a wide range of broadcast-quality captioning and subtitling, ad insertion, and blackout support for live, VOD, and time-shift services. The VOS platform is a prime solution to combine the essential elements of broadcast and multiscreen media processing — including ingest, compression, graphics and branding, packaging, and delivery — on common, off-the-shelf hardware. The VOS architecture will work well for deployment in video headends or it can be fully virtualised in IT data centre environments.
Sky Italia, an Italian pay-TV provider, is one of the first customers to deploy the VOS platform for its broadcast and multiscreen services. Utilizing the VOS platform, video content and service providers such as Sky Italia can successfully migrate to a virtualised video infrastructure to simplify workflows, increase operational efficiency, maximize flexibility and lower costs while providing its customers with high-quality video services.
The new multiscreen capabilities are available in Harmonic’s VOS-powered ProMedia X Origin streaming media server. ProMedia X Origin supports a broad range of applications beyond live streaming and video on demand. When combined with Harmonic’s MediaGrid shared storage system, ProMedia X Origin provides a complete time-shift TV solution, including catch-up TV, start-over TV, and nDVR.
Harmonic debuted the ProMedia X Origin streaming media server at IBC2014, which took place from 12 to 16 September in Amsterdam.
For more information visit the Harmonic website.
