Grass Valley To Demonstrate Unified Media Operations & Native MXL Support

Grass Valley will showcase a unified media operations environment at IBC2026 that combines hardware, software-defined applications, existing facility infrastructure and partner technologies, the company said Thursday.

The exhibit will demonstrate how the Dynamic Media Facility concept can operate today across a camera-to-consumer workflow, with native support for the Media eXchange Layer, or MXL, at its core. Grass Valley said it will show MXL v1.1 support in its AMPP platform along with NMOS implementations for MXL flow discovery and control.

The showcase pairs Grass Valley hardware — including LDX cameras, the latest Altair router and the ACE-3901-GRID MXL gateway — with AMPP OS-based applications to provide an end-to-end media workflow. The ACE-3901-GRID bridges SDI and SMPTE ST 2110 infrastructures with software-defined workflows, while AMPP supplies orchestration, media fabric and scalable compute for on-premises, edge and cloud deployments.

The company said the hybrid-by-design approach lets broadcasters introduce software-defined production alongside existing infrastructure and operational expertise. Dedicated systems provide predictable performance for live operations, and AMPP-based applications add flexible, scalable processing where needed.

“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,” Jon Wilson, chief executive officer of Grass Valley, said in a statement. “Native MXL support gives software applications a common way to exchange media while preserving the timing, identity and context production workflows depend on.”

The booth will present a connected production environment showing how SDI, SMPTE ST 2110 and MXL each support different parts of a modern media workflow. Grass Valley said production switchers will extend familiar control surfaces across hardware and software-defined environments, while ACE-3901-GRID will link established facility infrastructure with MXL-native applications in AMPP.

The demonstration will include reverse REMI production and remote operation of a software-defined outside broadcast truck in collaboration with DMC Production and Broadcast Solutions. Technologies from partners including Calrec, Lawo, Haivision, TVU Networks and Zoom will operate alongside Grass Valley solutions in multi-vendor workflows, the company said.

The showcase, part of Grass Valley’s support for the JT-DMF industry initiative, is intended to show practical uses of Dynamic Media Facility principles now while encouraging adoption of DMF-aligned open standards in AMPP as they are released.

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