Grass Valley and Lawo validate the integration between AMPP and HOME

Grass Valley y Theirs announce a technology collaboration focused on validating the integration of orchestration, control and media exchange between Grass Valley AMPP and Lawo HOME.

This collaboration is aligned with Grass Valley and Lawo's open systems approaches and supports the industry direction set by the initiative. Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) of the UER and the project Media eXchange Layer (MXL), which has your joint support.

As media organizations move toward hybrid production environments Spanning on-premises systems and the public cloud, customers are increasingly demanding world-class platforms that work together predictably and without the burden of custom integration. Through this collaboration, both companies reinforce their commitment to open and operationally flexible media infrastructures, both in software and hardware, by connect Grass Valley's AMPP and Lawo's HOME platforms.

The collaboration will initially focus on validate practical interoperability between AMPP and HOME in terms of control, orchestration, transportation and exchange of media, and operational supervision, with implementation principles that prioritize security as the central axis. This includes exploring use cases such as cross-platform routing, resource visibility between environments, and MXL-aligned sharing between software-based multimedia functions.

JonWilson, CEO of Grass Valley, says that for the manufacturer "Open by Design is a fundamental commitment to help customers build the future of multimedia infrastructure on their own terms. The industry is moving towards dynamic, software-based multimedia installations, where customers need to have confidence that the leading platforms can interoperate for control, orchestration and media sharing. By collaborating with Lawo, we are together helping to demonstrate how DMF principles can be applied in real-world deployments with multiple vendors."

The collaboration supports Grass Valley and Lawo's broader strategy to enable customers modernize your operations while protecting freedom of choice and flexibility. Both AMPP and HOME provide a software-based foundation for live production and multimedia workflows, enabling customers to deploy in cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.

For customers, collaboration aims to bring greater value to the reduce integration frictions, improve confidence in implementation y accelerate the practical adoption of open and dynamic multimedia installations. Instead of creating another closed ecosystem, the focus is on validate orchestration and interoperability patterns necessary for multi-vendor multimedia operations to operate at scale.

Jamie Dunn, CEO of Lawo, highlights that "Lawo shares Grass Valley's commitment to an open and interoperable multimedia infrastructure. Lawo HOME is designed to support the management and orchestration of modern IP-based multimedia environments, and this collaboration with Grass Valley reflects the importance of practical interoperability between the market-leading software infrastructure platforms. Together, we are enabling customers to deploy dynamic multimedia installations today without worries about vendor lock-in or restrictions."

“This is an important step to demonstrate open coordination, media sharing and software-based operations in practice,” he adds. Adam Marshall, product manager at Grass Valley. “Customers don't want theory; they want proof that open, multi-vendor architectures can be deployed with confidence, and that's exactly what this collaboration is designed to support.”

"This collaboration reflects how closely we work with customers to address real-world needs. From compact use cases to the scale of the world's largest live productions, we offer solutions that customers can confidently adopt today," he concludes. Andreas Hilmer, Marketing Director of Lawo.