IBC '19: Harmonic Aims to Reinvent Live Sports on Android TV

谐波的 IBC 2019的消息传递都是关于实时视频和, 特别是, solutions that let pay TV providers better compete with their OTT rivals.

“我们声称要在Android电视上重塑体育直播,” said 谐波的 vice president of video strategy, 蒂埃里Fautier. “Personalized experiences are common in OTT sports environments. It’s time to bridge the gap between the OTT and broadcast worlds.”

与谷歌和3SS合作, Harmonic has created an integrated OTT and broadcast 生活 sports workflow for Android TV.

The workflow sees 谐波的 VOS software media processing platform (based on its Pure encoding engine), spanning content preparation through origin server, 托管于谷歌云. 3SS provides the Android TV launcher which can be customized by the operator.

One example: A UHD screen's real estate could be split to offer the main game feed plus picture-in-picture views of other games with the viewer having ability to flick between them using a remote.

“This interactivity exits in the OTT domain but not as a tailored 生活 sports OTT and linear experience on Android TV, 直到现在,福捷说 “This is a breakthrough in our industry.”

Harmonic said it sees the cloud becoming more important for 生活 video. “The question is how to optimize the cloud for 生活,” he added.

一种方法是提供电信服务, 电缆, and mobile operators with a managed software-as-a-service offering based on VOS that takes a multi-CDN approach to 生活 de生活ry.

“The biggest challenge with 生活 video streaming is being able to handle the unexpected peaks in viewership, 特别是在付费赛事期间,福捷说. "This new access network capability for VOS essentially provides operators an insurance policy for 生活 video de生活ry and an exclusive capability not achievable with other business-as-usual solutions."

他补充说, “It’s a 24/7 cloud-based service which offers performance guarantee optimized for 生活 events. We will leverage established partnerships with CDNs. We know how much traffic we can support with our nodes so we know what QoS we can achieve and we know exactly what reliability we can have.”

This partner workflow has already been deployed by an unnamed operator “de生活ring 生活 sport at scale.”

Harmonic has also teamed with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help optimize deployments of VOS. 这项服务将首先在亚洲推出.

日常用品的酒吧, senior vice president of the video business at Harmonic said, “We collaborated with HPE to bring the best of both worlds for operators that prefer on-premises systems but also want the agility of the public cloud.”

谐波支持广泛的应用, 包括线性通道起源, 生活, SVOD, 时移电视, 体育直播, 瘦包, 灾难恢复.

The company claims to have 40,000 生活 OTT deployments globally.

“We believe that makes us number one in 生活 and linear video streaming,” Fautier declared.

He also pointed to the demo with France Televisions from Roland Garros this summer in which Harmonic helped de生活r 8K video over 5G. “Two billion pixels per second were processed by our platform. One hundred hours of 生活 and VOD content was produced over two weeks in the cloud. It was one of the most impressive demos I have seen in my career.”

Photo: 蒂埃里Fautier at IBC 2019 (艾德里安·彭宁顿)