Harmonic’s VOS360 receives range of upgrades

Harmonic’s VOS360 Live Streaming Platform now has 1+1 geo-redundancy, multi-CDN, caching

Harmonic’s VOS360 live streaming platform has benefited from a series of upgrades that the company claims will make live streaming of sports simpler.

The platform now features new seamless 1+1 geo-redundancy capabilities, ensuring uninterrupted streaming, as well as multi-CDN and caching, to effectively manage peak viewing.

With support for Google Ad Manager and FreeWheel ad management platforms, Harmonic believes these new features will helps sports rights holders monetise OTT offerings and boost revenue.

In the fast-paced sports market, the company notes that delivering a high-quality user experience for OTT live streaming is important. With this in mind, the VOS360 platform reduces latency for live sports streaming with CMAF and Apple Low-Latency HLS protocol support. The VOS360 platform is said to streamline the delivery of live sports coverage to any screen and to unify workflows, simplifying end-to-end operations and enhancing service offerings with extensive functionalities. These include live or file transcoding, packaging and origin, dynamic real-time CDN selection, targeted advertising, VOD, SVOD, time-shift and network DVR.

Harmonic’s VOS360 SaaS platform is designed to allow rapid scaling and acceleration of the time to market for live sports channels. By supporting a SaaS business model, Harmonic said that the VOS360 platform enables service providers to quickly respond to viewership peaks and adeptly handle sports tournaments that might only last a day or a few days.

With Harmonic’s VOS360 Live Streaming Platform, sports video streaming providers can achieve efficiency, flexibility and reliability in a public cloud-native environment. Harmonic’s VOS cloud offerings power millions of simultaneous streams, thousands of live channels and countless VOD requests.