Colombia. Claro Colombia is boosting its new TV streaming service Claro Box with Harmonic. The Harmonic solution, powered by VOS cloud-native software, increases Claro Colombia's business agility while ensuring an exceptional quality of experience for subscribers of the new Android TV-based service.
"With the launch of Claro Box TV, we are the first service provider in Colombia to implement an Android TV service," said Walter Borda, Corporate Director of Innovation at Claro Colombia. "Claro Box TV is a revolutionary advancement in the streaming experience: our subscribers can enjoy traditional linear channels, as well as home and recovery TV, cloud DVR, voice assistant with remote control, third-party streaming services, and more than 300 apps from the Google Play Store."
Claro Colombia has deployed Harmonic's VOS cloud-native software solution alongside the company's software-based Electra X live video processor and MediaGrid shared storage system for unparalleled flexibility and scalability.
By running VOS software in a private data center with easy access to the public cloud, Claro Colombia can stream its entire channel line for a unique application-based streaming experience. An essential part of the turnkey solution is Harmonic's EyeQ AI-based coding technology, which improves transmission performance and reduces overall transmission and storage costs.
In addition, Harmonic's team of DevOps experts provides 24/7 supervision and support to ensure the highest service availability for Claro Box TV.
"Claro Box TV puts Claro Colombia on the map as a leading aggregator of video streaming services in the Latin American region," said Alvaro Martin, Harmonic's Vice President of Sales and Services for Latin America. "Our VOS cloud-native software is based on Docker containers and microservices with Kubernetes orchestration, ensuring optimized resource utilization and future-proof video streaming for Claro Colombia."
