Harmonic And NAGRA Announce Watermarking As A Service For Live Sports Streaming
Harmonic VOS360 Cloud SaaS Platform.
Harmonic and NAGRA are teaming up to improve content protection for live sports streaming with a new watermarking-as-a-service offering.
NAGRA NexGuard forensic watermarking, a key solution within the NAGRA Active Streaming Protection framework, is integrated with Harmonic’s market-leading VOS360 cloud SaaS platform, offering content owners and service providers a streamlined solution for protecting premium content at scale during live sports events.
Harmonic’s VOS360 cloud SaaS platform is field proven in the delivery and monetization of live sports content at scale, ensuring low-latency, pristine video quality up to UHD. Running on the public cloud, the end-to-end SaaS platform provides unparalleled agility, resiliency, security and scalability for a superior viewing experience. The VOS360 cloud SaaS platform serves thousands of live events every month for leading streaming services.
NAGRA NexGuard forensic watermarking helps to identify the source of a content leak quickly and efficiently so that effective anti-piracy action can be taken. NexGuard embeds a session-specific forensic watermark for live channels and can scale easily to millions of concurrent sessions with CDN caching, working with all common streaming formats and DRMs.
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