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. The service aggregates, orchestrates, maintains, and updates AI applications implemented by Harmonic and 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. 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. 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. 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. Harmonic will demonstrate its innovative AI orchestration services at booth W2831 at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 19-22.
