Harmonic Hybrid Streaming Solution with Central Management
Category Streaming
Hybrid streaming is rapidly becoming the standard as it lowers the total cost of ownership of any streaming platform. This approach enables service providers to temporarily leverage the public cloud to handle peak demand for specific events, such as high-profile live sports.
Harmonic’s hybrid streaming solution is leading this transformation, enabling service providers to efficiently manage on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Comprised of Harmonic’s VOS®360 Media SaaS and VOS Media Software, the solution empowers service providers to utilize each environment where it delivers the most value, offering greater flexibility and lowering streaming costs. An advanced new central management system simplifies workflow operations across cloud and on-premises environments, while state-of-the-art encoding enhances video quality and drives additional cost savings. With broad application support, Harmonic’s solution enables service providers to meet today’s challenges and prepare for future streaming demands.
Simplifying Streaming Across On-premises and Cloud Environments
The intelligent central management system at the heart of Harmonic’s hybrid streaming solution enables operators to seamlessly deploy and configure any video workflow, unlocking the full benefits and cost efficiencies of hybrid streaming architecture.
Through a single, intuitive user interface, the central management system enables operators to easily create, configure and monitor any linear channel on the streaming platform, with the flexibility to run it only on-premises or not.
Harmonic’s hybrid streaming solution optimizes storage and egress costs by keeping fresh, high-demand VOD, nPVR and live-to-VOD assets on-premises, while moving less popular content to the cloud. The central management system is critical to this process by automating content migration from on-premises to the cloud based on rules such as content freshness and popularity. Content migration is transparent to the content management system, CMS, ensuring seamless operations.
In addition, the central management system enhances operational resilience and disaster recovery in hybrid environments. Service providers can leverage the cloud for built-in redundancy, geographic diversity and robust failover options to back up the entire on-premises infrastructure in case of failure.
Reducing Costs While Maintaining Exceptional Video Quality
Harmonic’s hybrid streaming solution leverages AI-powered EyeQ™ content-aware encoding to significantly reduce bandwidth requirements and minimize cloud and CDN storage costs. With EyeQ-enabled video quality, service providers can save approximately $1,100 per day, assuming 300,000 viewers watch video content for two hours daily. This makes it a powerful tool for maintaining high video quality while optimizing resource usage in hybrid streaming environments. EyeQ achieves a superior viewing experience at low bitrates by leveraging AI and the function of the human visual system.
Setting the Standard for Hybrid Streaming Innovation
In today’s competitive market where efficiency and flexibility are paramount, Harmonic is setting the benchmark for hybrid streaming innovation. Supporting linear and VOD streaming, time-shift, catch-up TV, network PVR and server-side ad insertion, Harmonic’s solution allows service providers to scale services dynamically and economically to maximize monetization opportunities.
Featuring a new central management system and AI-powered EyeQ encoding, Harmonic’s hybrid streaming solution addresses a critical industry need to streamline operations, reduce total cost of ownership, maintain exceptional video quality and adapt to evolving demands.
