Televisa Builds Multiscreen Service

Harmonic, Inc., in video delivery infrastructure, announced that Televisa, the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, has built a large-scale multiscreen service on the Harmonic ProMedia suite of multi-screen production and preparation applications and MediaGrid shared storage system.

Deployed at Televisa’s Mexico City facility for its TV Everywhere service and VEO – Televisa’s new subscription VOD and transactional VOD service – the multiformat video processing and storage technology from Harmonic enables Televisa to optimize OTT video service delivery for live linear feeds and VOD while ensuring high-quality video output and a rich user experience.

“Harmonic provides tier-one broadcasters such as Televisa with a complete solution that includes the software, architecture, and support necessary to launch new multiscreen services smoothly and address all target devices effectively,” said Alvaro Martin, regional sales director for Mexico, Harmonic. “Leveraging Harmonic’s multiscreen video architecture, Televisa was able to quickly and cost-effectively expand their services to include very competitive multiscreen offerings that meet their customers’ demand for VOD services and TV everywhere.“

The Televisa installation represents the first large-scale multi-screen system deployed in Mexico and Latin America, and it will be used by the company’s various video service platforms to distribute live events ranging from concerts to premier sports events.

Within the scalable multiscreen video delivery workflow at Televisa, ProMedia Live real-time multiscreen transcoder and ProMedia Package multiscreen stream packager perform live transcoding and packaging, ProMedia Carbon file-based transcoder and WFS file-based workflow engine perform file transcoding, and ProMedia Origin streaming video server facilitates streaming in formats required by all major devices and mobile OSs. The video- optimized MediaGrid shared storage system provides fast, reliable central storage for these operations.

The flexibility of the Harmonic systems assures that the workflow can adapt in response to Televisa’s evolving requirements. This all-IP video distribution model features integration with digital rights management, a content management system, and a content delivery network.

Harmonic was named by Frost & Sullivan Ltd and MRG as the no. 1 multiscreen transcoding vendor in 2013, based on its multiscreen solution offering. The company will showcase its multiscreen solutions at ANGA COM 2014, May 20-22 in Cologne, Germany.