By now, a company like Harmonic is more than accustomed to ducking punches and dodging stones thrown by rival companies. But, faced with increasing pressure within the M&E industry, the US company’s video infrastructure division is increasingly being forced into returning fire, to remain competitive in the mature cost-crunch era of processing and delivering TV. The US vendor has been jabbing at competition which haven’t yet bridged the linear to cloud gap, while reminding the industry that it is the most profitable of all the large-scale video encoding and distribution specialists. With economic pressures squeezing every corner of the M&E market, some will say the best form of attack is defense, which is why Harmonic at NAB 2025 was showcasing…