Grass Valley and Lawo Partner to Validate Open Orchestration and Media Exchange

Grass Valley and Lawo have announced a technology collaboration focused on validating orchestration, control, and media exchange integration between Grass Valley's AMPP and Lawo's HOME platform. Aligning with both companies' commitment to open systems architecture, the partnership supports the industry direction established by the EBU Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) initiative and the co-supported Media eXchange Layer (MXL) project. As media organizations shift toward hybrid production environments spanning on-premises systems and public cloud infrastructure, the initiative aims to eliminate bespoke integration burdens for best-of-breed platforms.

The collaboration will initially focus on validating practical interoperability between AMPP and HOME across control, orchestration, media transport and exchange, and operational monitoring with security-first deployment principles at the heart. This includes exploring use cases such as multi-platform routing, cross-environment resource visibility, and MXL-aligned exchange between software-based media functions. 
The collaboration supports Grass Valley's and Lawo's broader strategy to enable customers to modernize their operations while protecting choice and flexibility. Both AMPP and HOME provide a software-based foundation for live production and media workflows, enabling customers to deploy across cloud, edge and hybrid environments. 

For customers, the collaboration is intended to bring increased value by reducing integration friction, improving deployment confidence and accelerating the practical adoption of open, dynamic media facilities. Rather than creating another closed ecosystem, the focus is on validating the orchestration and interoperability patterns required for multi-vendor media operations to work at scale. 

"This is an important step in showcasing open orchestration, media exchange and software-based operations in practice," said Adam Marshall, Chief Product Officer at Grass Valley. "Customers are not looking for theory; they want evidence that open, multi-vendor architectures can be deployed with confidence and that is exactly what this collaboration is designed to support." 

"This collaboration reflects how closely we work with customers to address real-world needs," said Andreas Hilmer, Chief Marketing Officer at Lawo. "From compact use cases to the scale of the largest global live productions, we support solutions that customers can adopt with confidence today." 

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