Harmonic Powers Globosat’s IP Broadcast Workflow

Harmonic technology providing playout and offline content management in IP domain

Author:: Michael Balderston
Publish date:: Apr 6, 2017
Updated on: Feb 23, 2018

SAN JOSE, CALIF.—After first using Harmonic technology for its 24-hour UHD channel covering the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Latin America’s Globosat has expanded its Harmonic infrastructure for playout and offline content management in the IP domain. To do so, Globosat has deployed Harmonic’s Spectrum X advanced media server system and its MediaGrid shared storage system for a hybrid IP infrastructure.

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Spectrum X

The Spectrum X system helps ease Globosat’s transition to IP broadcast workflows by integrating SDI and IP I/O—with SMPTE 2022-6 support—in the same chassis. This allows Globosat to shift away from its existing SDI infrastructure toward and all-IP one.

According to Globosat, the installation of the Harmonic systems allowed for them to have one of the first all-IP infrastructures used for broadcast production of a major sporting event.

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that Globosat, Latin America's largest content and program creator, is using Harmonic's Spectrum(TM) X advanced media server system and Harmonic MediaGrid shared storage system to establish a groundbreaking hybrid IP infrastructure. Pioneered for broadcast of a 24-hour Ultra HD channel during the Summer Games in Rio, Globosat expanded the use of Harmonic technology for playout and offline content management in the IP domain, maximizing the efficiency of its production operations for a variety of programming.

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