Harmonic has announced the launch of Live Connection, a 30-day virtual showcase highlighting Harmonic’s latest video streaming innovations. The online interactive series will shine light on the benefits of Harmonic’s software solutions and cloud-based platforms.

The virtual showcase, commencing on April 16, will kick off with a webinar on how to cut streaming congestion without sacrificing quality of service and will comprise a mix of additional live webinars, a virtual showroom experience and engaging one-on-one meetings with Harmonic team members.

“We’re rolling out Harmonic Live Connection to meaningfully engage with our globally dispersed customers and assure the continuity of their mission-critical services,” said Shahar Bar, senior vice president, video products and corporate development, at Harmonic. “Our virtual showcase will highlight Harmonic’s innovations in low-latency live streaming, channel origination, UHD HDR, personalized advertising, video workflow portability to cloud, geo-redundancy and ATSC 3.0, that make next-gen video streaming and broadcast services smarter.”

Harmonic will demonstrate its VOS^®360 Live Streaming Platform. The fully managed solution is cloud-neutral, running on a range of public cloud platforms, and handles all stages of the media processing and delivery chain, with geo-redundancy to ensure the highest level of service reliability.

Using the VOS360 platform for live streaming, operators can achieve real-time scaling to handle peaks in viewership. Several unique cloud-based workflows will be shown, including low-latency delivery for OTT, dynamic ad insertion and live video delivery optimization.

Moreover, Harmonic will showcase its VOS360 Channel Origination & Distribution Platform. Using the schedule-based delivery solution, operators can create linear channels, live events and streams, direct to consumers or syndication partners on one simple platform.

The VOS360 platform features scheduling flexibility, wide support of sources and fully automated delivery over the internet for both live and file-based content. Key capabilities highlighted at Live Connection will include modern playout combining on-premises and in-cloud resources controlled by the same traffic or control system, CDN-enabled distribution to affiliates as well as cloud channel origination enabling content personalization.

Furthermore, Harmonic’s VOS Cloud-Native Software enables the fast launch and management of end-to-end professional media workflows in private data centers, including ingest of live or file sources, channel playout and processing of all content. Key capabilities highlighted at Live Connection will include unified broadcast and streaming delivery, portability to public cloud and seamless geo-redundancy.

Last but not least, Harmonic will demonstrate support for SMPTE ST 2110 and UHD HDR for contribution; production and playout; and OTT and broadcast delivery with the ViBE^® CP9000 contribution encoder, Spectrum™ X media server and XOS advanced media processor, respectively.