STREAMING SUCCESS: ANOTHER YEAR OF ‘AMAZING GROWTH’
W ith another year of notable streaming deployments to Harmonic’s credit, it comes as no surprise that Jean Macher – the company’s business development director of SaaS solutions – sounds a satisfied note about the company’s progress in an extremely competitive sector. “Ever since we launched VOS360, our end-to-end cloud media processing platform, we have experienced amazing growth in streaming, especially for sports,” he says. “That trend has continued throughout the past 12 months with a number of major live events confirming that many Tier 1 players are opting to use our technology, as we are one of few that provide a streaming platform that is big-scale, high-quality, robust and innovative.” Indeed, innovation is integral to its USP, as the SaaS nature of the VOS360 platform means new features are regularly being added. “It’s not exactly the kind of approach whereby your customers make the most of a platform for a few years then move on to a new one,” Macher explains to us. “This is a different kind of technology development in that any new improvements we bring to the software – such as enhancement to video quality – become available to customers right away, no matter how they are working. This is true whether that’s remotely in the cloud, on-premises or a mix of the two.”
Ahead of what promises to be another dynamic edition of NAB Show for Harmonic, Jean Macher tells FEED about the continuing success of the VOS360 and its other offerings
While traditional linear broadcasting remains a key part of the Harmonic business, Macher confirms that the company has ‘invested heavily in streaming- focused features and capabilities for the past six or seven years.’ Accordingly, new capacities to make streaming even more seamless and efficient will feature prominently at the NAB Show, including: b New cloud appliance capabilities: These revolve around the Spectrum X cloud server with Harmonic’s MediaGrid scalable storage. Multiple new features and tools have been added to facilitate today’s production workloads. b The recent migration to cloud- native software: For both VOS and XOS processing, it allows all
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