New routing, modular processing, orchestration and monitoring capabilities bridge dedicated hardware and software-based processing as part of the Dynamic Media Facility 

MONTREAL, CANADA – AUGUST 21, 2026 – At IBC2026, Grass Valley will showcase infrastructure connecting SDI, SMPTE ST 2110, MXL and software-based processing as one unified operational environment. 

Under the theme Connect Everything, Everywhere, Grass Valley will demonstrate how media organizations can modernize existing facilities without replacing the surrounding infrastructure or creating new operational silos. Routing, processing, orchestration and monitoring come together across dedicated hardware and software-defined workflows, supporting unified media operations and Grass Valley’s hybrid-by-design approach. 

Routing for Modern UHD Production 

IBC2026 will provide the first opportunity to see the Altair 12G-SDI router following its initial shipments earlier this year. Designed for small and mid-sized facilities, production hubs, venues and mobile production, Altair combines 12G-SDI routing and multiviewing in a compact 6RU frame, scaling to 160×160 12G-SDI I/O and up to 16 independent multiviewers. Through AMPP Orchestration, it becomes part of the wider infrastructure environment. 

Modular Processing Across SDI, IP and MXL 

Grass Valley will showcase Densité improved capabilities across XIP-3911 and the newly released ACE-3901 modular infrastructure. XIP-3911-IO improves performance, stability and workflows for hybrid SDI and SMPTE ST 2110, with frame synchronization, precision timing, mixed frame-rate and film-mode support, switching, expanded audio profiles and improved PTP stability. 

The newly released ACE-3901 provides two high-density gateway applications with the latest generation processing core, showcasing this next-generation infrastructure at IBC2026 for the first time.  

ACE-3901-IO provides SDI to uncompressed SMPTE ST 2110 conversion, supporting up to 64 3G-SDI signals in 32×32 or 32 12G-SDI signals in 16×16 on a single card.  

ACE-3901-GRID connects SDI directly with AMPP for MXL-native, software-based production, initially supporting up to 32 3G-SDI GRID gateway signals in a 16×16 configuration per card, with deterministic, low-latency performance.  

Recognized with Best of Show awards at IBC2025 and NAB Show 2026, ACE-3901-GRID bridges established infrastructure and the Dynamic Media Facility. Together, ACE-3901-IO and ACE-3901-GRID connect SDI with either SMPTE ST 2110 or MXL workflows. 

One Orchestration Layer Across More Signal Types 

AMPP Orchestration brings hardware, software and distributed resources into a common operational environment. At IBC2026, Grass Valley will demonstrate orchestration across SDI, SMPTE ST 2110, MXL, AMPP Global Streaming and TVU MediaMesh routing. NMOS newly enables MXL flow discovery and control, while GV Orbit extends orchestration into established infrastructure including Altair, XIP-3911 and ACE-3901. 

Scalable Monitoring and Operational Visibility 

Kaleido-IP X brings mesh multiviewer capabilities to AMPP, enabling monitoring of any AMPP-supported input, including MXL, through familiar Kaleido workflows. The demonstration combines multi-channel monitoring with Playout X and a new penalty box function and display for feeds requiring attention. Together, Kaleido-IP X and AMPP provide scalable monitoring across facilities, edge locations and software-processing environments through a common multiviewer experience. 

Controlled Evolution, Not Forced Replacement 

The new capabilities reflect the reality that SDI, ST 2110, MXL, remote connectivity and software-based processing increasingly need to coexist. Grass Valley allows customers to retain infrastructure that delivers value, connect it with new processing and production models, and introduce capabilities as requirements evolve. Altair provides UHD routing and multiviewing; XIP-3911 strengthens hybrid SDI and IP processing; ACE-3901 connects SDI with ST 2110 and MXL; and AMPP brings orchestration and observability across the wider environment. 

Together, they put the principles of the Dynamic Media Facility into practice by making hardware and software resources available as one connected infrastructure layer, operated and monitored through a common AMPP experience. 

Visitors can experience Grass Valley’s Unified Media Operations infrastructure portfolio at Booth 9.A01 during IBC2026, September 11–14, at RAI Amsterdam. 

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About Grass Valley 

Grass Valley empowers over 90% of the world’s top media brands to create and deliver compelling stories that captivate audiences. At the heart of its solutions is the GV Media Universe (GVMU), combining advanced hardware solutions, with the agility, elasticity, and adaptability of the AMPP Media Operating System. Together, they form a seamless, scalable ecosystem for efficient and innovative workflows. 

With a portfolio spanning from camera to consumer, Grass Valley provides the flexibility to build solutions for every need – from a single creative harnessing immense production power to globally distributed teams collaborating seamlessly. This breadth of capability enables customers to craft efficient workflows that inspire and engage their audiences. 

With over 65 years of expertise, Grass Valley has consistently driven the evolution of live content creation and storytelling. Headquartered in Montreal and supported by Black Dragon Capital, the company remains dedicated to shaping and leading the media revolution. 

Unified Media Operations showcase brings hardware, software-based applications and a growing partner ecosystem together in an open production environment, with native MXL support at its core.

MONTREAL, CANADA –AUGUST 14, 2026 – At IBC2026, Grass Valley will demonstrate the principles of the Dynamic Media Facility in action today, bringing hardware, software-defined applications, existing infrastructure and partner technologies together as one unified media operation.

Through its active support of the JT-DMF industry initiative and the open standards that will underpin the Dynamic Media Facility, Grass Valley’s IBC showcase will put these principles into practice across a complete, camera-to-consumer workflow, while demonstrating how AMPP will continue to adopt DMF-aligned standards as they are released.

The environment combines Grass Valley’s hardware portfolio – including LDX cameras, the latest Altair router and the new ACE-3901-GRID MXL gateway – with AMPP OS-based applications as an end-to-end media workflow. ACE-3901-GRID bridges existing SDI and SMPTE ST 2110 infrastructure with software-defined workflows, while AMPP provides the orchestration, media fabric and scalable compute needed to deploy applications across on-premises, edge and cloud environments.  

This hybrid-by-design approach allows media organizations to introduce software-defined production alongside the infrastructure, workflows and operational expertise already delivering value. Dedicated systems continue to provide predictable performance for live operations, while AMPP-based applications add flexibility and scalable processing where required.

“IBC is our latest opportunity to demonstrate native MXL integration operating across our production portfolio,” said Jon Wilson, CEO, Grass Valley. “Visitors will see how infrastructure, live production, content management and playout through AMPP work together with open media exchange across the technologies our customers already use every day. Native MXL support gives software applications a common way to exchange media while preserving the timing, identity and context production workflows depend on.” 

Open By Design 

Openness is a core principle of Grass Valley’s strategy. AMPP enables customers to combine Grass Valley and partner technologies around their operational requirements, without creating another closed production environment.

Native support for MXL, the Media eXchange Layer, extends this approach by giving software media functions a shared method to access and exchange media. It replaces application-specific approaches to media transport, conversion and integration with a common model that preserves the timing, identity and context required for professional production. 

At IBC2026, Grass Valley will demonstrate native MXL v1.1 support in AMPP, together with the latest NMOS implementations for MXL flow discovery and control. The technology will operate across an end-to-end workflow spanning acquisition, ingest, media processing and monitoring, live production, content management and playout.

The showcase also reflects the accelerating growth of the Grass Valley partner ecosystem. Technologies from Calrec, Lawo, Haivision, TVU Networks, Zoom – and more – will operate alongside Grass Valley solutions within real-world, multi-vendor workflows.

Unified Workflows from Camera to Consumer 

The booth itself will operate as a connected production environment, demonstrating how SDI, SMPTE ST 2110 and MXL each support different parts of a modern media workflow. SDI and ST 2110 remain foundational across facilities, devices and real-time production, while MXL enables media exchange between software applications once media has entered compute.

Visitors will see these technologies working together across live production, networking, processing, monitoring, content workflows, orchestration and automation. Grass Valley production switchers will extend familiar control surfaces across hardware and software-defined environments, while ACE-3901-GRID will connect established facility infrastructure with MXL-native applications in AMPP. 

The showcase will include reverse REMI production and the remote operation of a software-defined OB truck in partnership with DMC Production and Broadcast Solutions. Customer use cases across the booth will provide further examples of media organizations combining dedicated systems with software-defined capabilities for live production, content management, media processing and large-scale delivery.

“The technologies underpinning unified media operations are already supporting customers in live production today,” added Wilson. “At IBC, we’re looking forward to showing how this hybrid-by-design ecosystem is helping media organizations build on the infrastructure they already trust while introducing software-defined workflows that give them greater flexibility as their operational requirements evolve.” 

Together, the showcase supports Grass Valley’s wider thought-leadership focus, The Dynamic Media Facility Today, exploring how DMF principles can deliver practical operational value now while establishing an open foundation for the future. 

To learn how Grass Valley is helping global media organizations build more unified media operations, visit Booth 9.A01 at IBC2026, RAI Amsterdam, September 11–14. 

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About Grass Valley 

Grass Valley empowers over 90% of the world’s top media brands to create and deliver compelling stories that captivate audiences. At the heart of its solutions is the GV Media Universe (GVMU), combining advanced hardware solutions, with the agility, elasticity, and adaptability of the AMPP Media Operating System. Together, they form a seamless, scalable ecosystem for efficient and innovative workflows. 

With a portfolio spanning from camera to consumer, Grass Valley provides the flexibility to build solutions for every need – from a single creative harnessing immense production power to globally distributed teams collaborating seamlessly. This breadth of capability enables customers to craft efficient workflows that inspire and engage their audiences. 

With over 65 years of expertise, Grass Valley has consistently driven the evolution of live content creation and storytelling. Headquartered in Montreal and supported by Black Dragon Capital, the company remains dedicated to shaping and leading the media revolution. 

Singapore-based broadcast services provider has deployed Grass Valley cameras, switchers and hybrid workflow infrastructure across sports and entertainment productions

MONTREAL, CANADA – May 19, 2026 – Grass Valley has entered into a three-year enterprise agreement with Phoenix Broadcast Solutions as the Singapore-based company expands its live production operations across APAC and the Middle East. 

The agreement includes the deployment of Grass Valley LDX Series cameras, K-Frame production switchers and Densité/XIP infrastructure to support OB, REMI and hybrid production workflows across sports and entertainment projects. 

Phoenix Broadcast Solutions provides live production services across international sports and multi-event productions, specializing in OB, REMI and hybrid workflows for major sporting events and broadcasters across APAC and the Middle East. As part of the revamp of its operations, the company sought a scalable production ecosystem capable of supporting rapid deployment across multiple geographies and varied production environments. 

“We were looking for a production infrastructure that could scale with the type of projects we are delivering across different markets,” said Siddhartha Tyagi, Founder & Managing Director, Phoenix Broadcast Solutions.  

“That meant improving workflow flexibility and interoperability, supporting UHD and 4K production requirements, enabling REMI and distributed workflows, and maintaining reliability across large-scale multi-venue sports productions. We also wanted the flexibility to work across both IP and baseband environments depending on the operational and regional requirements of each project.” 

The deployment includes LDX 150 and LDX 98 cameras for live sports production, alongside K-Frame switchers with Kayenne and Karrera control surfaces for multi-camera productions across OB and REMI environments. Densité and XIP infrastructure will support a combination of IP and baseband workflows, allowing Phoenix to adapt systems according to venue, project and regional requirements. 

Systems are being deployed in phases in line with Phoenix’s production schedule across APAC and the Middle East, with the Grass Valley and Phoenix engineering teams collaborating on configuration and integration across a range of third-party audio, communications and transmission systems. 

“Grass Valley’s solutions give us the flexibility and reliability we need to deliver at the highest level across multiple markets,” Tyagi added. “This partnership is an important step in building a future-ready broadcast infrastructure.” 

The systems are already in use across Phoenix’s major international productions, improving operational flexibility across projects while enabling faster deployment between regions and greater consistency across workflows. 

For Grass Valley, the agreement strengthens its position within growing live production markets across APAC and the Middle East. 

“Phoenix Broadcast Solutions represents a new generation of broadcast companies: agile, ambitious, and built on deep industry expertise,” says Evan Boyd, Senior Vice President, Sales APAC, Grass Valley. “We are proud to support their journey with solutions that enable both performance and flexibility at scale.” 

The partnership is expected to expand further as Phoenix Broadcast Solutions continues to grow its operations across sports and live event production. 

Visit the Grass Valley booth (5C2-7) at Broadcast Asia 2026, taking place 20–22 May at Singapore EXPO, to find out how the company is supporting media providers across APAC and the Middle East with scalable live production, distributed operations and next-generation broadcast infrastructure. 

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About Grass Valley 

Grass Valley empowers over 90% of the world’s top media brands to create and deliver compelling stories that captivate audiences. At the heart of its solutions is the GV Media Universe (GVMU), combining advanced hardware solutions, with the agility, elasticity, and adaptability of the AMPP Media Operating System. Together, they form a seamless, scalable ecosystem for efficient and innovative workflows. 

With a portfolio spanning from camera to consumer, Grass Valley provides the flexibility to build solutions for every need – from a single creative harnessing immense production power to globally distributed teams collaborating seamlessly. This breadth of capability enables customers to craft efficient workflows that inspire and engage their audiences. 

With over 65 years of expertise, Grass Valley has consistently driven the evolution of live content creation and storytelling. Headquartered in Montreal and supported by Black Dragon Capital, the company remains dedicated to shaping and leading the media revolution.

Grass Valley’s unified Media Infrastructure brings hardware and software-defined environments together in one operational layer, helping media organizations modernize without compromise

MONTREAL, CANADA – April 15, 2026 – Grass Valley is showcasing its expanded Media Infrastructure capabilities at NAB Show 2026, bringing routing, signal processing and orchestration into a single operational layer that spans hardware and software-defined environments. 

Built around the ACE-3901 gateway card, AMPP Orchestration and Grass Valley’s now MXL-native AMPP OS, the approach enables ingest, routing, processing and control to operate in unison across SDI and IP, deployed on-prem, in the cloud or across hybrid environments. The result is an infrastructure foundation designed to support elastic production and modernization without requiring full system replacement. 

“Hybrid production is no longer a future model – it is increasingly normal operation, and that raises the bar for infrastructure,” said Adam Marshall, Chief Product Officer at Grass Valley. “Customers need a simpler way to connect legacy systems with modern workflows across baseband, contribution, and cloud-based production, without adding operational complexity. With AMPP OS, ACE-3901 and AMPP Orchestration, Grass Valley is bringing hardware and software workflows together in one operational experience, helping customers modernize at the pace that is right for them while building the foundation for what comes next.”  

Central to the updates being shown for the first time in Las Vegas is the ACE-3901-GRID application, which extends high-density connectivity from SDI infrastructure into AMPP OS. With AMPP OS now MXL-native, that creates a more efficient path between dedicated hardware resources and software-defined workflows. Combined with AMPP Orchestration, this creates a seamless and unified control layer across baseband, IP and cloud-connected environments. 

The approach is further enhanced by integrations from Grass Valley’s Alliance Partners, who will be demonstrating real-world use cases at the company’s Central Hall booth (C2408).  

Connect. Modernize. Scale 
Signals are no longer constrained by format or location. What was once a relatively simple local routing environment has evolved, through hybrid and distributed production, into a far broader operational challenge, with signals now moving across baseband, local IP and remote compressed sources. To address that complexity, AMPP Orchestration consolidates multi-format, multi-platform routing into one shared operational environment. 

AMPP OS now natively supports NDI 6.3 alongside Dante audio streams, while contribution sources from TVU MediaMesh and participant video streams via Zoom ISOcloud can also be received within the same environment, reducing operational overhead and minimizing the need for additional receiver devices. 

For operations built on existing infrastructure, control remains consistent. TSL Hummingbird provides protocol conversion that allows AMPP applications to manage legacy systems alongside software-defined workflows, enabling modernization without replacing established control layers. 

Infrastructure capacity can also be dynamically aligned to production demand. LayerCake provisions complete production environments, including AMPP compute instances and routing configurations, as pre-defined templates that can be deployed or collapsed as required. This shifts infrastructure from fixed capacity to an on-demand model, matching the reality of the operation. 

Hybrid Production as Standard 
Additional AMPP OS updates include NMOS Bridge, which improves device discovery and control in mixed IP environments, integration to GV Orbit for unified orchestration and new Kaleido-IP X Pro enhancements for scalable multi-standard multiviewing. 

The result is connected infrastructure where routing, processing and orchestration are presented to the operator as a single system. Signals can move between SDI, IP and cloud environments without intervention, while control and visibility remain consistent across the operation. 

Grass Valley will demonstrate these capabilities at NAB Show 2026 as part of its broader Grass Valley Media Universe, showing how infrastructure can revolutionize hybrid production at scale. 

Visit the Grass Valley booth (C2408) in Central Hall at NAB Show 2026 to find out more about our Media Infrastructure solutions. 

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About Grass Valley 

Grass Valley empowers over 90% of the world’s top media brands to create and deliver compelling stories that captivate audiences. At the heart of its solutions is the GV Media Universe (GVMU), combining advanced hardware solutions, with the agility, elasticity, and adaptability of the AMPP Media Operating System. Together, they form a seamless, scalable ecosystem for efficient and innovative workflows. 

With a portfolio spanning from camera to consumer, Grass Valley provides the flexibility to build solutions for every need – from a single creative harnessing immense production power to globally distributed teams collaborating seamlessly. This breadth of capability enables customers to craft efficient workflows that inspire and engage their audiences. 

With over 65 years of expertise, Grass Valley has consistently driven the evolution of live content creation and storytelling. Headquartered in Montreal and supported by Black Dragon Capital, the company remains dedicated to shaping and leading the media revolution.

New initiative combines scholarships, hands-on learning, and access to Grass Valley technology to help universities develop industry-ready talent for live sports production

MONTREAL, CANADA – April 6, 2026 – Grass Valley today announced the launch of its Future Playmakers Program, a new global initiative designed to support and develop the next generation of professionals in sports production and media technology. 

Timed ahead of NAB Show, the program reflects Grass Valley’s continued investment in education, workforce development, and long-term industry growth. It is built to help students gain practical experience while enabling higher education institutions to strengthen their production programs with access to professional-grade tools and workflows. 

The Future Playmakers Program combines scholarships, hands-on learning, technology access, and institutional collaboration. It is designed to create a sustainable pipeline of talent trained on industry-standard solutions used across live sports and event production. 

“Developing the next generation of talent is critical to the future of our industry,” said Jon Wilson, CEO of Grass Valley. “The Future Playmakers Program is about giving students real access to the tools, workflows, and experiences that define modern live production, while strengthening our partnerships with the institutions shaping that future workforce.” 

Through the program, Grass Valley will select up to 10 students annually from participating partner institutions. Selected students will receive financial support alongside access to experiential learning opportunities designed to bridge the gap between academic study and real-world production environments. 

A central component of the program is the Grass Valley Montreal Technology Experience, where students will engage directly with the company’s technology and teams. The experience includes a factory tour, hands-on product demonstrations across cameras, production switchers, AMPP, and orchestration solutions, as well as live production workflow sessions and access to industry experts. 

“The industry is evolving quickly, and there is a clear need for talent that understands both production and technology,” said Greg Doggett, Vice President of Sales, NAM Sports, Grass Valley. “This program is designed to give students that exposure early, while helping higher education institutions build programs that reflect how live production operates today and gaining important exposure to where the industry is headed.” 

Participating institutions benefit from scholarship opportunities, increased industry visibility, and closer collaboration with Grass Valley through technology alignment and program engagement. The initiative is open to higher education institutions and production programs investing in next-generation broadcast and live production workflows. 

By connecting students, educators, and industry professionals, the Future Playmakers Program aims to deliver long-term value across the media ecosystem. It supports the development of operators, engineers, and production specialists equipped to work in increasingly complex, IP-based, and software-defined environments. 

Grass Valley will share additional updates on participating institutions as the program expands. 

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About Grass Valley 

Grass Valley empowers over 90% of the world’s top media brands to create and deliver compelling stories that captivate audiences. At the heart of its solutions is the GV Media Universe (GVMU), combining advanced hardware solutions, with the agility, elasticity, and adaptability of the AMPP Media Operating System. Together, they form a seamless, scalable ecosystem for efficient and innovative workflows. 

With a portfolio spanning from camera to consumer, Grass Valley provides the flexibility to build solutions for every need – from a single creative harnessing immense production power to globally distributed teams collaborating seamlessly. This breadth of capability enables customers to craft efficient workflows that inspire and engage their audiences. 

With over 65 years of expertise, Grass Valley has consistently driven the evolution of live content creation and storytelling. Headquartered in Montreal and supported by Black Dragon Capital, the company remains dedicated to shaping and leading the media revolution. 

Original Article written for AV Magazine

Walmart’s Sam Walton Hall Event Center combines live events and broadcast operations within a SMPTE ST 2110 IP environment. Standardising on Grass Valley production systems, the facility enables consistent, multilingual communications across a global workforce of more than two million associates. 

When Walmart began developing its new corporate campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, the objective was clear: create a central environment that could support collaboration, communication, and culture at global scale. At the heart of the 350-acre site is the Sam Walton Hall Event Center, a purpose-built venue designed to serve as both a live event space and a broadcast hub for one of the world’s largest workforces. 

Operational since January 2025, Sam Walton Hall supports internal communications for Walmart’s 2.1 million associates worldwide. The facility brings together live production, broadcast, and event operations within a single, connected infrastructure, enabling the company to communicate consistently across offices, regions, and time zones.  

“It’s positioned right in the centre of the campus,” says Dave Magnia, chief engineer, campus events at Walmart. “From any office building, it’s a short walk. The intention was to make company-wide events and broadcasts easy to access, both technically and operationally.” 

Unified production ecosystem 

The Event Center is the result of a five-year development process involving Walmart, APRO Designs, and Grass Valley. Early designs were based on traditional SDI workflows, reflecting Walmart’s long history in internal broadcasting. The company has operated its own television studio since 1988, originally using satellite distribution to communicate directly with stores across the US. 

As the campus project evolved, the team reassessed its technical approach and made the decision to transition the facility to a SMPTE ST 2110 IP-based architecture. While the move was not initially driven by creative requirements, the operational and infrastructure benefits became increasingly clear during the design phase. “When we started running the numbers, the cabling savings alone were significant,” Magnia explains. “Once you get into router sizes at this scale, reducing copper and labour has a real impact. IP also gave us far more flexibility in how we designed and distributed the system.” 

The 130,000-square-foot facility includes a 1,150-seat auditorium, a 900-seat conference centre divisible into six rooms, a broadcast television studio, a radio studio, two auxiliary control rooms, and an outdoor amphitheatre. A core requirement was that every space could be operated independently or combined into larger productions, depending on the event. “Operator consistency was critical,” says Magnia. “We wanted staff to be able to move between control rooms and see the same panels, the same layouts, and the same workflows.” 

Grass Valley K-Frame production switchers were deployed across the control rooms to support this requirement, providing a uniform operational environment regardless of production scale. System orchestration and signal management are handled using Grass Valley Orbit, which enables routing control across video, audio, timecode, and metadata within the IP infrastructure. 

Moving to SMPTE 2110 also allowed Walmart to decentralise its signal processing. Instead of relying on a single central rack room, IP gateways and interfaces enabled I/O to be distributed throughout the building, simplifying expansion and reducing physical constraints. 

Bridging the Worlds of Audio and IT  

Today, the Event Center supports a wide range of internal broadcasts, streamed globally using platforms including Zoom, YouTube, and WorkVivo, Walmart’s internal communications network. Content is delivered in multiple languages, including English, French, Hindi, Mandarin, and Spanish, reflecting the geographic spread of Walmart’s workforce. 

“Being able to manage multilingual audio workflows efficiently was essential,” Magnia says. “With 2110, we can pair different audio tracks and adapt outputs without redesigning the system.” 

Audio integration was one of the more complex aspects of the project. Walmart’s production audio infrastructure is built around Yamaha consoles using Dante, alongside a Q-SYS system for background audio across the campus. Integrating these environments within a 2110 framework required close coordination between broadcast engineering and IT teams. 

Security was another key consideration. As a corporate facility, the system needed to comply with strict IT security policies without compromising broadcast performance. Walmart deployed Cisco Nexus-class switches and worked closely with Cisco and Grass Valley engineers to validate and optimise the network configuration. “Every 2110 deployment is different,” Magnia notes. “There’s no single blueprint. Having partners who understand both broadcast and IP was essential in getting the system operational.” 

Walmart’s long-standing relationship with Grass Valley played a central role in the technology selection. The company has relied on Grass Valley systems for decades across studios, OB environments, and live production facilities. “That familiarity and reliability matter,” says Magnia. “When you’re building something at this scale, you need confidence in both the technology and the support behind it.” 

Looking ahead, Walmart continues to explore further IP integration and more flexible control options, including greater use of third-party interfaces and personalised operator workflows. The Sam Walton Hall Event Center has been designed to accommodate that evolution. “This facility isn’t static,” Magnia concludes. “It’s a platform that allows us to adapt how we communicate as the organisation changes.” 

By combining Grass Valley production systems with a SMPTE 2110 infrastructure, Walmart has established a scalable, resilient broadcast environment that supports inclusive, global communication across its workforce, while maintaining the operational discipline of traditional broadcast engineering. 

Learn more about this Case Study and contact Sales to learn more

Original content published on NBC.Sports.com

NBC Universal to Present XXV Olympic Winter Games Feb. 6-22 and Milan Cortina Paralympics March 6-15

NBC Sports to Utilize Grass Valley’s Frame Rate Conversion, Routing, and Orchestration Technologies for its Production in Italy to Provide Viewers with the Highest-Quality Live Coverage Across All Platforms

NBC Sports has selected Grass Valley to provide advanced infrastructure, routing, orchestration, and frame rate conversion solutions for its production of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympics, Feb. 6-22, and March 6-15, respectively.

With Milan and Cortina, Italy, in the same time zone as Paris, France, the programming plan for the 2026 Winter Games will be similar to NBCUniversal’s massively consumed and critically acclaimed coverage of last year’s Summer Games, including:

• the best events live during the day on NBC
• the entire Olympics streaming live on Peacock
• an enhanced Olympics primetime show, Primetime in Milan, featuring top events, stars, and stories
• comprehensive coverage across numerous cable and digital platforms
• return of Gold Zone and Multiview on Peacock

Click for more on NBCUniversal’s Milan Cortina programming.

The Opening Ceremony from San Siro Stadium in Milan will be presented on Friday, Feb. 6, live on NBC and Peacock. NBCUniversal is presenting its 20^th Olympic Games, 13^th consecutive overall, and owns the U.S. media rights on all platforms to all Olympic Games through 2036, which are scheduled for Milan Cortina (2026), Los Angeles (2028), French Alps (2030), Brisbane (2032), Utah (2034), and the Olympic Games 2036 (host yet to be determined).

NBC Sports will utilize Grass Valley to deliver advanced signal conversion, routing, and orchestration technologies for its production of the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. These solutions will be deployed onsite in Italy, at NBC Sports’ facilities in Stamford, Conn., and 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, helping NBC Sports route the excitement in Italy back to viewers watching coverage of the Games in the United States.

“Grass Valley has worked with NBC Sports for more than two decades, assisting NBC Sports’ production efforts at previous Olympics and other major international sports events in Europe, Asia and the Americas,” said Tim Canary, SVP Engineering. “Their technology and engineering support are key components in delivering the unmatched quality and reliability that audiences expect from NBC Olympics’ coverage.”

We’re honored to extend our long-standing partnership with NBC Sports for Milan Cortina 2026,” said Jon Wilson, CEO of Grass Valley. “With Alchemist, Orbit, and the power of AMPP OS working together, backed by our leading infrastructure products and on-site support expertise, we’re enabling NBC Sports to deliver the scale, quality, and reliability audiences expect across every screen.

ABOUT NBC SPORTS

NBC Sports connects sports fans to the moments that matter most with premier live events, insightful studio shows, and compelling original programming. As the sports division of NBCUniversal, NBC Sports produces, programs, and promotes premier content across numerous linear and digital platforms, including NBC and Peacock. NBC Sports presents events from many of the world’s most prestigious properties, including the International Olympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the NFL, NBA, WNBA, Major League Baseball, Notre Dame, Big Ten Conference, Big East Conference, Big 12 Conference, NASCAR, PGA TOUR, USGA, PGA of America, The R&A, Churchill Downs, Premier League, and many more. It is renowned for making big events bigger and has produced some of the most-watched sporting events in U.S. media history, including Olympic Games, Super Bowls, and Sunday Night Football, primetime television’s No. 1 show for 14 consecutive years.

About Grass Valley

Grass Valley empowers over 90% of the world’s top media brands to create and deliver compelling stories that captivate audiences. At the heart of its solutions is the GV Media Universe (GVMU), combining advanced hardware solutions, with the agility, elasticity, and adaptability of the AMPP Media Operating System. Together, they form a seamless, scalable ecosystem for efficient and innovative workflows.
With a portfolio spanning from camera to consumer, Grass Valley provides the flexibility to build solutions for every need – from a single creative harnessing immense production power to globally distributed teams collaborating seamlessly. This breadth of capability enables customers to craft efficient workflows that inspire and engage their audiences.
With over 65 years of expertise, Grass Valley has consistently driven the evolution of live content creation and storytelling. Headquartered in Montreal and supported by Black Dragon Capital, the company remains dedicated to shaping and leading the media revolution.

China’s first Native-IP UHD outside broadcast system ushers in a new era of live production

MONTREAL, CANADA – December 3, 2025 – Grass Valley recently delivered a cutting-edge 4K Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) outside broadcast (OB) truck to Guangdong Radio and Television (GRT), in partnership with Beijing Sailing Hightop Technology Development Co., Ltd. The handover ceremony, attended by senior executives from GRT, Sailing Hightop, and Grass Valley, marks a major milestone in China’s evolution toward next-generation IP-based broadcast technology.

During the ceremony, a spokesperson for Sailing Hightop expressed appreciation to all project partners, noting that seamless collaboration across system design, integration, and commissioning ensured the project was completed on time, on budget, and to the highest standards. According to the spokesperson of GRT, the new OB unit will enhance the broadcaster’s ability to produce and transmit large-scale sports and entertainment events in 4K UHD, providing strong technical support for the upcoming events.

The new OB truck is the first Native-IP UHD system in China, representing a transformative shift away from traditional baseband infrastructure. By adopting a fully IP-based architecture, the unit delivers new levels of flexibility, scalability, and efficiency for live production. Equipped with Grass Valley’s LDX 135/150 cameras and the Grass Valley K-Frame CXP switcher, the system supports 4K and 8K live production with HDR and WCG capabilities, while its distributed workflow enables real-time remote collaboration and future cloud deployment via GV Orbit SDN and AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform). The design also maximizes space and energy efficiency and enables multi-platform content delivery through native landscape and portrait conversion.

The project reflects Grass Valley’s strong commitment to innovation and close collaboration with partners across the Asia-Pacific region. By working alongside Sailing Hightop and GRT, Grass Valley is helping broadcasters in China move toward more flexible, IP-based production environments and preparing for the next wave of UHD and 8K media creation..

“This project is a powerful example of what’s possible when innovation, collaboration, and vision come together,” said Alain Wang, Sales Director for China, Grass Valley. “We’re proud to support Guangdong Radio and Television and Sailing Hightop in delivering China’s first Native-IP UHD OB truck,  a future-ready solution that sets the standard for 4K and 8K live production in the region.”

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About Grass Valley

Grass Valley empowers over 90% of the world’s top media brands to create and deliver compelling stories that captivate audiences. At the heart of its solutions is the GV Media Universe (GVMU), combining advanced hardware solutions, with the agility, elasticity, and adaptability of the AMPP Media Operating System. Together, they form a seamless, scalable ecosystem for efficient and innovative workflows.

With a portfolio spanning from camera to consumer, Grass Valley provides the flexibility to build solutions for every need – from a single creative harnessing immense production power to globally distributed teams collaborating seamlessly. This breadth of capability enables customers to craft efficient workflows that inspire and engage their audiences.

With over 65 years of expertise, Grass Valley has consistently driven the evolution of live content creation and storytelling. Headquartered in Montreal and supported by Black Dragon Capital, the company remains dedicated to shaping and leading the media revolution.

New gateway, orchestration, multiviewer and routing solutions along with AMPP integrations from GVMU Partners will be showcased on the company’s Hall 9 booth

MONTREAL, CANADA – September 2, 2025 – Grass Valley will showcase the next generation of live production networking and infrastructure solutions at IBC 2025, introducing a comprehensive suite of products designed to give broadcasters and media companies the freedom to evolve on their own terms. From bridging legacy and IP workflows to ensuring resilience across regions, Grass Valley’s latest innovations deliver agility, scalability, and operational confidence for the world’s most demanding productions.

Networking Reinvented

At the heart of Grass Valley’s networking products is the brand new ACE-3901 card, a powerful Software-Defined Agile Compute Engine for the Densité Modular platform. ACE-3901 transforms legacy infrastructure into a modern, hybrid-ready environment. With up to 32× 12G-SDI or 64× 3G-SDI per card and 400 Gb/s fabric bandwidth, it delivers high density, ultra-low latency signal processing in a compact form factor.

For existing SDI facilities, the ACE-3901 provides an on-ramp to ST2110 with the ACE-3901-IO application with the highest density in the marketplace. The ACE-3901-GRID application goes even further by integrating its high performance FPGA based resources directly into AMPP– augmenting server resources with the ACE-3901 cards, seamlessly blending the best of both worlds, and supporting up to 192 inputs and outputs per 4RU frame to be connected to both single node and multi-node AMPP GRID clusters.

ACE-3901 naturally provides built-in auto-discovery and telemetry through the GV Orbit orchestration platform to ensure faster, smarter, and more resilient routing decisions.

“We have an exciting story to tell around our networking solutions at IBC this year,” explains Lee Buchanan, VP Networking, Grass Valley. “ACE-3901 is the winning card that breaks the constraints of your existing facility, allowing you to work seamlessly across SDI, IP or AMPP environments and realize the growth ambitions of your productions. With our networking portfolio, we’re demonstrating that media companies don’t have to abandon what they have today to unlock new levels of storytelling prowess.”

Also making its debut in Amsterdam is the MV-1200-RTR, a 6RU modular native 12G-SDI router that doubles as a multiviewer. Scalable up to 160 × 160 I/O, it provides native UHD routing with built-in multiviewer engines driving up to 16 displays and 512 PiPs per screen. With frame synchronization, MADI audio options, and direct connect hardware control panels, it delivers the power of a large router in a small, efficient chassis, ideal for OB trucks, regional studios, esports arenas, and education facilities.

Smarter Hybrid Workflows

As part of the continuing expansion of the AMPP ecosystem, Grass Valley is introducing two powerful new capabilities that give customers even greater elasticity, flexibility, and cost control in their productions.

AMPP HUB is a new enhancement to the AMPP control plane that keeps workflows fast and resilient. Distributed solutions typically require control messages to be routed via the cloud, introducing unnecessary control latency, but with the addition of AMPP HUB, those messages are handled locally whenever possible. This reduces latency, saves bandwidth, and ensures operations remain responsive even if cloud connectivity is unexpectedly interrupted. The result is production operations that feel as immediate and reliable as you’d expect for an on-site solution, with all the elasticity of AMPP behind them.

For the most demanding productions, AMPP Multi-Region Resilience extends that power with active redundancy across regions. Continuous state mirroring and policy-driven failover provide confidence that operations will continue seamlessly, even in the face of regional outages or planned maintenance. Productions stay live, protected, and ready, no matter what happens in the background.

Together, these new capabilities strengthen AMPP as the most advanced, software-defined production platform in the industry, giving customers the agility to produce anywhere with unmatched elasticity and efficiency.

In addition, Grass Valley is introducing the Kaleido-IP X Professional multiviewer, powered by AMPP, built for the toughest live production and remote workflows. With scalable multi-node workflows enabled by AMPP GRID, Kaleido-IP X Professional combines advanced layout customization with real-time signal probing for black video, freeze, and audio loss, giving teams absolute confidence that every feed is under control. Operators can view all major SDI, ST 2110, and compressed IP sources together in one flexible canvas, eliminating the need for separate systems.

“Kaleido-IP X Professional delivers the freedom to design any layout, and the intelligence to catch every issue, giving operators total confidence while making monitoring faster and easier than ever,” Buchanan adds.

A New Era of Networking at IBC 2025

Grass Valley will also welcome its latest GVMU Alliance Partners to its booth in Amsterdam, three of whom will showcase new network and orchestration integrations with AMPP.

Skyline Communications will demonstrate how its xOPs Platform orchestrates AMPP and over 800 other applications while scheduling online and offline resources and monitoring the entire production chain – empowering AMPP as the core to an end-to-end solution, enabling complex productions to be spun up and down with production needs.

Layercake will showcase its templated orchestration and scheduling of Grass Valley AMPP solutions, third-party apps and compute, through its Streamcake solution – allowing customers to easily and cost effectively adopt cloud-based remote production and distribution.

Finally, TSL will be on the stand with TSL AMPP Portal, GVO Tally, and TSL control panels. TSL solutions can provide extended protocol integrations between AMPP and legacy third party products and hardware, helping to further simplify customer adoption and migration to AMPP and software-defined workflows.

“Our expanded portfolio integrated with strategic alliance partners proves that modernization doesn’t have to mean starting over,” says Buchanan. “With gateways that protect existing investments, orchestration that makes hybrid workflows seamless, multiviewers that simplify monitoring, and routers that save space without compromise, Grass Valley and our Alliance Partners are delivering the tools broadcasters need to accelerate storytelling while staying resilient and cost-effective.”

Grass Valley invites you to experience the full networking and infrastructure lineup in action at Booth 9.A01, Hall 9, at IBC 2025, RAI Amsterdam Convention Center, September 12-15.

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About Grass Valley

Grass Valley empowers over 90% of the world’s top media brands to create and deliver compelling stories that captivate audiences. At the heart of its solutions is the GV Media Universe (GVMU), combining advanced hardware solutions, with the agility, elasticity, and adaptability of the AMPP Media Operating System. Together, they form a seamless, scalable ecosystem for efficient and innovative workflows.

With a portfolio spanning from camera to consumer, Grass Valley provides the flexibility to build solutions for every need – from a single creative harnessing immense production power to globally distributed teams collaborating seamlessly. This breadth of capability enables customers to craft efficient workflows that inspire and engage their audiences.

With over 65 years of expertise, Grass Valley has consistently driven the evolution of live content creation and storytelling. Headquartered in Montreal and supported by Black Dragon Capital, the company remains dedicated to shaping and leading the media revolution.