Harmonic announced a revolutionary new AI orchestration service that enables broadcasters, streamers, and service providers to seamlessly integrate AI applications into live video workflows with broadcast-grade reliability and security.
The service enables media companies to efficiently and securely enhance their workflows using the best AI applications developed by Harmonic and its trusted partners. As a result, service providers can reduce AI-related investments and accelerate time-to-market for more personalized and cost-effective live streaming and broadcast services.
Yaniv Sibony, vice president of growth product management at Harmonic, said media companies face growing challenges such as fragmented AI tools, complex integrations and inconsistent reliability as video workflows become increasingly complex and distributed. Our new AI orchestration service changes the game by enabling multiple AI applications to operate from a unified control plane with built-in reliability and security, helping media companies innovate faster, reduce complexity, and bring AI-powered video experiences to market with confidence.
Improve video workflow efficiency with a unified AI control plane
Harmonic’s AI Orchestration Services aggregate, orchestrate, maintain, and update AI applications implemented by Harmonic and our best-in-class partners. Through a unified interface, service providers can easily configure, schedule, and dynamically activate AI applications for simpler and more cost-effective operations. The service orchestrates AI-based processing of live content, synchronizes output across multiple AI engines, and ensures seamless failover through built-in redundancy mechanisms.
Available as a standalone SaaS product, the orchestration service supports a suite of AI-driven applications, including real-time speech translation and transcription, dubbing and localization, automated live sports highlight generation, scene-level metadata generation, ad break detection, and in-stream ad triggers. Built for the broader ecosystem, the service works natively with Harmonic’s full suite of media processing solutions, including VOS®360 Media SaaS, VOS Media Software, XOS media processors, and Spectrum™ X Plus.
Achieve broadcast-grade reliability
Harmonic’s AI orchestration services offer many benefits to media companies, including:
- Unified governance: Service providers can manage multiple AI vendors from a single, secure control plane.
- Synchronous processing: By precisely coordinating AI output across multiple engines, media companies can deliver frame-accurate broadcast and streaming services.
- Built-in redundancy: Seamless failover mechanisms, combined with security and health monitoring of AI tasks, help service providers avoid on-air interruptions.
- Dynamic scheduling: Service providers can easily schedule and activate AI applications for each live event.
- Simplify AI deployment
AI orchestration services integrate multiple AI applications onto a single platform, allowing media companies to avoid costly integration cycles and complete replacement upgrades as AI technology evolves. Ultimately, the service accelerates time-to-market for new AI-powered products by eliminating the need for complex integrations and repeated platform migrations.
Yaniv Sibony, Vice President of Growth Product Management, Harmonic
Our new AI orchestration service changes the game by enabling multiple AI applications to operate from a unified control plane with built-in reliability and security, helping media companies innovate faster, reduce complexity, and bring AI-powered video experiences to market with confidence.
