Broadpeak®, a leading provider of video streaming solutions and content delivery network (CDN) for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, announced today a modernized video delivery solution using Google Cloud, simplifying the deployment of advanced streaming services for network operators. At the heart of the solution is Broadpeak's BkS350 Origin Packager software running on Google Cloud, enabling operators to modernize their workflows, overcome capacity and storage limitations of on-premises infrastructure, and quickly expand their live, time-shifted, and VOD streaming offerings. Broadpeak's new solution has successfully been deployed by a tier-one network operator in North America.

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that its VOS®360 SaaS platform is now available on Google Cloud, bringing additional infrastructure options to media and entertainment companies. By running on Google Cloud, the VOS360 SaaS platform reinforces benefits for video service providers, including unparalleled agility, resiliency, security and scalability for a superior viewing experience.

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud to streamline TV and video service deployments and operations. VO solutions are now integrated with Google Cloud Anthos, a fully managed Kubernetes-based platform that allows users to manage their data and applications in hybrid cloud environments, including on-premises, the public cloud, the private cloud, and multi-cloud.

Interra Systems, a leading provider of content QC, monitoring, and analysis solutions to the digital media industry, today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program. Interra Systems’ industry-leading QC and monitoring software, including BATON, BATON Captions, and ORION-OTT, are now available on Google Cloud, empowering video service providers to adopt cloud workflows, rapidly launch traditional broadcast and video streaming services, reduce capex costs, and eliminate infrastructure maintenance.

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced integration of Google Cloud Marketplace in its CableOS® Cloud-Native Core Platform. The integration of Google Cloud Marketplace provides operators using the CableOS Platform with quick access to Google Cloud Marketplace applications, allowing them to deploy new revenue-generating services with ease.

The SubtitleNEXT team resports success from APTRAD and Languages & the Media Virtual conferences last month. With media accessibility being more urgent than ever for broadcasters and AVT professionals, the timing is vital.

Highlights at the Berlin L&M show coveredmachine translation, automatic speech to text and text to speech technologies and how these innovations affect how content owners, media studios, language service providers and freelance subtitlers achieve results as they work on key projects.

Functions and capabilities that media studios require such as workflow management solutions capable of incorporating automatic transcription and translation processing are already available in NEXT -TT and SubtitleNEXT, with both solutions receiving acknowledgement and interest at the shows, credited as extremely useful and affordable for companies to invest in, irrespective of their size.

Live subtitles for live events and meetings was another key topic on the agenda. SubtitleNEXT is clearly a market leader in the live subtitling field offering various user-friendly tools and provides advanced offline subtitle preparation capabilities in a single application.

In response to audience requests at these recent events, the team at SubtitleNEXT will be holding a series of free tech “SubtitleNEXT Friday Workshops” as of mid-October onwards, to demonstrate how to create subtitles from scratch or from source. The first session takes place 15th October. Everyon is welcome to join here https://join.skype.com/GJn8QL88GBhT

ATEME, a leader in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has announced it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program. By joining the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program, ATEME will empower the tools and technology needed to accelerate cloud deployments designed to meet customer’s business goals faster.

Arvato Systems’ Vidispine customers can now leverage the power of the Google Cloud as a wide selection of the Vidispine products have been ported to run on the powerful Google Cloud Platform. Many products from the Vidispine protfolio, including VidiCore media management backend, and VidiEditor browser-based video production solution, are now running natively on the Google Cloud Platform. This allows Google Cloud customers to use them directly via the Platform's web-based console and build an entire digital media supply chain natively in the cloud.

iWedia, one of the leading providers of software components and solutions for TV devices for major service operators and consumer electronics manufacturers, is celebrating its 10^th anniversary. 

To mark this significant milestone, iWedia has announced the donation of 10,000 COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization’s Solidarity Response Fund, prioritizing those who need them the most in countries that can afford them the least.

Advanced Systems Group (ASG) today announced its Virtual Production Control Room, a remote production service powered by Google Cloud that allows real-time, broadcast-quality coverage of live events and other programming. In contrast to all-in-one solutions, ASG’s VPCR uses cloud-based production tools from several established industry vendors to deliver a more powerful and versatile virtual control room solution.

Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced that its Compass® enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup platform now enables seamless management of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) virtual machine snapshots.

Brainstorm, leading manufacturer of real-time 3D graphics and virtual studio solutions, has successfully completed the TelePorter project, funded by the Google Digital News Initiative. Thanks to Brainstorm's Augmented Reality technology, TelePorter allows  reporters to be 'teleported' to the TV set from whatever location they are reporting from at that very moment. The TelePorter application is installed on the mobile phone and guides the user in capturing their image and communicating between the reporter and the production centre of the news programme or TV show.

Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced that DCIG has named the company's industry-leading Compass® enterprise SaaS backup platform as a TOP 3 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) backup solution for 2021. In its latest report, DCIG noted that Compass is a highly distinguished player in the cloud backup market, having earned three other rankings in earlier DCIG reports. These include the TOP 5 cloud backup solutions for Microsoft Azure, the TOP 5 for enterprise AWS, and the TOP 5 enterprise anti-ransomware backup solutions.

ACCESS Europe GmbH announces the launch of NetFront™ Browser BE for Car v3.0 that supports the company’s goal of providing the automotive, entertainment, and media markets with the most secure and advanced commercially supported embedded browser. This new upgrade, based on an up-to-date Chromium Core (86), brings the latest standards support, security updates and media playback support to cars, including support for the new Google services login requirements that will be in place in January 2021, via the ACCESS Twine™ for Car (Twine4Car) in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system.

PBT EU unveils SubtitleNEXT’s enhanced Live Subtitling feature that now includes the integration of Google’s automatic Speech-to-Text engine. This notable new development in SubtitleNEXT extensively sets it apart by further enhancing and substantially speeding up the entire Live Subtitling process by allowing videos to be translated live in real time at a stunning pace.