NAB 2016: Quickplay inks strategic partnership with Harmonic


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Michelle Clancy

| 16 April 2016




Quickplay has created a strategic partnership with Harmonic based on its multi-tenant video platform.



quickplayPowered by its software defined headend, the Quickplay solution will integrate features of Harmonic’s video delivery infrastructure solutions based on VOS, a software-based media processing platform designed to simplify workflows in video content provider and video service provider deployments.

“Quickplay constantly researches and partners with the best providers of industry solutions in order to leverage the latest technological advances and maintain cost leadership for our customers,” said Mike Couture, Quickplay’s senior vice president of product and marketing.
“Harmonic brings a variety of industry leading capabilities to our platform service, including packaging-on-the-fly, live-to-VOD, cloud-DVR, and highly efficient software-based transcoders that work together to help run our business with the highest quality and the lowest cost. This is critical for our multi-tenant platform efficiency and allows us to pass on the cost savings to our customers.”

“Increasingly, infrastructure is being virtualised. For our customers, competing and succeeding in the world of premium OTT video means constantly innovating, while operating at scale with superior efficiency, agility and video quality,” said Ovadia Cohen, senior director, Strategic Alliances, Harmonic. “Our partnership with Quickplay will bring customers new options for expanding traditional broadcast and pay-TV services.”

Earlier this week, Quickplay announced a new partnership with You.i TV, aimed at pay-TV operators and content programmers building custom multiscreen applications. The joint solution will offer customers a multi-tenant platform powered by Quickplay’s virtual headend, combined with a front-end user interface (UI) for premium over-the-top (OTT) video across all connected devices, including iOS, tvOS, Android, Amazon Fire, Xbox, PlayStation, Roku, smart TVs and RDK set-top boxes (STBs).