Lawo and Grass Valley validate interoperability for dynamic media facilities
Lawo and Grass Valley have announced a collaboration to validate interoperability between the GV AMPP and Lawo HOME platforms to support dynamic media facilities. Additionally, Lawo is preparing to release version 12.4 of its mc² audio console software and continues to support SMPTE ST 2110 education initiatives.
Key Takeaways
- Technology partnership focuses on validating orchestration, control, and media exchange between Grass Valley AMPP and Lawo HOME.
- Lawo is releasing mc² audio console software version 12.4, adding real-time analyzers and native HOME integration.
- Collaboration aligns with EBU Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) and Media eXchange Layer (MXL) industry standards.
- The initiative targets specific use cases including multi-platform routing and cross-environment resource visibility.
Why It Matters
This partnership addresses the critical friction point in the transition to ST 2110: the lack of seamless control across competing software-defined ecosystems. By aligning the market-leading orchestration of HOME with the production agility of AMPP, the two vendors are signaling a move away from proprietary silos toward a unified 'best-of-breed' infrastructure. For the broader industry, this validation lends weight to the EBU’s DMF framework as the primary blueprint for next-generation facilities. Watch for the first production-ready MXL-aligned media exchanges between these platforms at IBC 2026.
Additional Context
The collaboration between Lawo and Grass Valley surfaces as legacy SDI-based routing systems are rapidly reaching end-of-life status. Per Market Research Future in June 2026, the global broadcast equipment market is projected to reach $11.38 billion by 2035, driven largely by capital replacement cycles as facilities migrate to SMPTE ST 2110 IP fabrics. This shift is gaining particular momentum in Europe, where the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) reported in June 2026 that 62% of public broadcasters have committed to full ST 2110 builds by 2028 to realize operational hardware savings of up to 45%. While the financial incentives for IP migration are clear, technical hurdles remain a primary deterrent for 82% of broadcast operations that still rely on SDI as their dominant production backbone, according to a 2026 Haivision survey. Industry leaders at the 2026 NAB Show highlighted synchronization via the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) as a consistent 'pain point' for engineering teams. The Lawo-Grass Valley collaboration specifically targets these deployment frictions by validating security-first orchestration patterns, which may lower the barrier to entry for smaller broadcasters previously wary of the technical complexity inherent in multi-vendor IP environments. Simultaneously, the industry is witnessing a consolidation of software-defined layers. Per TV Technology in April 2026, Grass Valley has recently expanded its 'Alliance' to include native integrations with Tier 1 audio providers like Calrec, using the Media eXchange Layer (MXL) 1.1 protocol. Lawo has similarly expanded its HOME ecosystem by introducing containerized microservices known as 'HOME Apps' that run on standard COTS servers. This convergence toward software-defined microservices is effectively moving the industry toward a model where production resources are allocated based on immediate workload rather than fixed, room-based hardware configurations.
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