Grass Valley and Lawo join forces
Grass Valley and Lawo join forces
Grass Valley and Lawo have announced a technology collaboration aimed at validating orchestration, control and media exchange integration between Grass Valley’s AMPP platform and Lawo’s HOME management platform.
The initiative aligns with both companies’ open systems approaches and supports industry efforts including the European Broadcasting Union’s Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) initiative and the Media eXchange Layer (MXL) project.
According to the companies, the collaboration is intended to address growing demand for interoperability as media organisations adopt hybrid production environments that combine on-premises infrastructure with public cloud resources. By connecting AMPP and HOME, the project seeks to demonstrate how software and hardware platforms from different vendors can work together across operational environments.
The initial phase will focus on validating interoperability in areas including control, orchestration, media transport and exchange, operational monitoring and security-focused deployment. Planned areas of exploration include multiplatform routing, cross-environment resource visibility and MXL-aligned media exchange between software-based media functions.
“At Grass Valley, Open by Design is a foundational commitment to helping customers build the future of media infrastructure on their terms,” said Jon Wilson, chief executive officer at Grass Valley. “The industry is moving toward dynamic, software-based media facilities where customers need confidence that leading platforms can interoperate across control, orchestration and media exchange. By collaborating with Lawo, we are together helping to show how DMF principles can be applied in real-world, multivendor deployments.”
Grass Valley and Lawo said the collaboration forms part of their broader efforts to support operational modernisation while maintaining flexibility in deployment choices. Both AMPP and HOME are designed to support live production and media workflows across cloud, edge and hybrid environments.
The companies stated that the work is intended to reduce integration complexity, improve deployment confidence and support the adoption of open, dynamic media facility architectures. According to both parties, the focus is on validating interoperability and orchestration approaches that enable multivendor media operations.
