The partnership adds the power of Appear’s X Platform to the Grass Valley Media Universe, giving Grass Valley customers a complete solution for high-quality, low latency, broadcast contribution, distribution, DSNG, cloud-based live production, and real-time viewing of video feeds.
«The Grass Valley Media Universe is intended to bring existing and new technologies together in ways that generate new opportunities for our customers. The channel density and multi-functional processing capabilities of the X Platform combined with our Media Universe gives customers unrivalled flexibility, providing the ultimate combination of low latency and stream synchronization required for high-quality cloud live production. With this alliance our customers get access to the best of both, Grass Valley and Appear, all under a single commercial contract», – commented Costa Nikols, Vice President, Global Sales Enablement & Training at Grass Valley.
Grass Valley customers have a new tool for ultra-low latency and high-quality video encoding for synchronized multi-camera open standard SRT video streams. These streams are fed directly into the Grass Valley cloud-based technology Agile Media Processing Platform (AMPP), that is capable of supporting multiple streaming protocols over public and private networks.
The Appear X is a high-capacity, versatile, ultra-low latency platform for high-speed video networking, enhanced IP security and advanced compression for the remote production, contribution and distribution markets.