Hybrid infrastructures balance cost, performance and flexibility across cloud and on-premises environments
- Central Management
- EyeQ
- Cost Optimization
Simple operation via central management
A crucial advantage of Harmonic’s hybrid streaming solution is its centralized management system that eases operations across both on-premises and cloud environments. Operators can manage, monitor and configure the entire workflow from a single user interface. Migrating content from on-premises to the cloud is fully automated, based on rules such as content freshness and is transparent to the content management system (CMS). This significantly reduces complexity, streamlines resource allocation and lowers costs for service providers.
Key features include:
Automatically move file assets from on-premises to cloud storage based on policy rules.Create, configure & monitor streaming services.Move seamlessly streaming services from/to cloud.
EyeQ, The Bandwidth & Storage Saver
Another benefit of Harmonic’s hybrid streaming solution is EyeQ™ content-aware encoding for live and file-based transcoding. This advanced encoding technology significantly reduces bandwidth requirements and minimizes cloud and CDN storage costs. With EyeQ, service providers can save approximately $1,100 each day, assuming 300,000 viewers are watching video content two hours daily, making it a powerful tool for maintaining high video quality while optimizing resource usage in hybrid streaming environments..
Key features include:
File & live.All compression formats (AVC, HEVC, VVC).No extra latency & density impact.
Optimized Total Cost of Ownership
Harmonic’s hybrid streaming solution is cost optimized because static, business-as-usual workloads such as 24x7 linear encoding are managed cost-efficiently on-premises, while the cloud is cheaper for storing long tail content (non fresh network PVR or VOD assets) and ideal for absorbing unpredictable spikes —such as those during live sports events or breaking news coverage—without over-provisioning hardware.
Key features include:
Strategic allocation of resources.Disaster recovery of the on-premises system in the public cloud.
Proven success in real-world applications
The Harmonic hybrid streaming solution powers a wide range of service providers use cases, including linear channel & VOD streaming, time-shift, catch-up TV, network PVR as well as Server-Side Ad Insertion monetization. Its versatility enables service providers to scale their video streaming services dynamically and economically and maximize monetization opportunities.
Network PVR
Network PVR requests from the viewers are processed and content is stored on-premises for a configurable, short-term period. If the viewer decides to access to his recording during this period, the content will be played by VOS media software. After this period, the corresponding content if still not accessed, is migrated automatically in VOS360. When the viewer finally wants to watch it, VOS360 will play it.
Linear channel streaming
Encoding a 24x7 linear channel in the public cloud remains quite expensive compared to encoding it on-premises.
The hybrid streaming solution offers the service providers to decide where a given linear channel shall be encoded - on-premises or in the cloud.
SSAI Monetization
The service provider can monetize linear channels and VOD content by using Harmonic’s VOS360 Ad SaaS.
VOS360 Ad is proven at scale, offers a 99.995% up time, is integrated with all main ADS vendors and its performance is metered real-time through a intuitive dashboard.
