Grass Valley and Lawo have announced a technology collaboration to validate interoperability between Grass Valley’s AMPP platform and Lawo’s HOME management and orchestration platform.
The companies said the initiative supports industry efforts toward open media infrastructures, including the European Broadcasting Union’s Dynamic Media Facility initiative and the Media eXchange Layer project.
As broadcasters and media organizations increasingly deploy production workflows across on-premises and cloud-based environments, the industry has placed greater emphasis on interoperability between systems from different vendors. According to the companies, the collaboration is intended to demonstrate how software-based platforms can work together across control, orchestration and media exchange functions.
The initial phase of the project will focus on validating interoperability between AMPP and HOME across orchestration, media transport, operational monitoring and security-focused deployment. The companies said they will also explore use cases such as multi-platform routing, resource visibility across different environments and MXL-based media exchange between software applications.
Employing open architectures
“At Grass Valley, Open by Design is a foundational commitment to helping customers build the future of media infrastructure on their terms,” said Jon Wilson, chief executive officer at Grass Valley. “The industry is moving toward dynamic, software-based media facilities where customers need confidence that leading platforms can interoperate across control, orchestration and media exchange. By collaborating with Lawo, we are together helping to show how DMF principles can be applied in real-world, multi-vendor deployments.”
According to the companies, the collaboration is designed to help customers modernize operations across cloud, edge and hybrid environments while maintaining flexibility in technology choices.
“Lawo shares Grass Valley’s commitment to open, interoperable media infrastructure,” said Jamie Dunn, chief executive officer at Lawo. “Lawo HOME is designed to support the management and orchestration of modern IP-based media environments, and this collaboration with Grass Valley reflects the importance of practical interoperability between the market-leading software infrastructure platforms. Together, we are enabling customers to implement dynamic media facilities today without concerns about vendor lock-in or restrictions.”
Adam Marshall, chief product officer at Grass Valley, said the project is intended to provide practical evidence that open architectures can be deployed in operational environments. “Customers are not looking for theory; they want evidence that open, multi-vendor architectures can be deployed with confidence, and that is exactly what this collaboration is designed to support,” he said.
Andreas Hilmer, chief marketing officer at Lawo, said the collaboration reflects customer demand for interoperable solutions that can be deployed at different scales. “From compact use cases to the scale of the largest global live productions, we support solutions that customers can adopt with confidence today,” he said.
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