Harmonic
Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT) today introduced the MediaPrism™ convergence
suite for multi-screen video delivery to the TV, PC, iPhone and other
mobile devices. Deployed by Tier 1 service providers for new mobile and
Internet video service trials, MediaPrism is the industry’s most
comprehensive solution for converged video delivery, uniquely
encompassing live and offline content ingest, transformation, delivery
and workflow management. The MediaPrism convergence suite is designed to
support a variety of emerging mobile and Internet delivery formats,
including Microsoft® Silverlight™, Apple® adaptive HTTP Live Streaming
and Adobe® Flash®, in addition to legacy mobile video formats, existing
broadcast TV and video-on-demand services.
Key elements of the MediaPrism suite include:
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Content Ingest: Harmonic’s CLEARcut™ offline and LIVEcut™
real-time content preparation solutions make it possible for service
providers to capture and prepare assets for multi-screen viewing.
CLEARcut prepares assets from tape or DVD sources while LIVEcut is a
highly scalable solution for live ingest and content export that
offers a unique and newly expanded set of capabilities.
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Transformation: At IBC 2009, Harmonic is introducing the new
ProStream™ 5000 file-based universal transcoder powered by Carbon
Coder™ technology. The ProStream 5000 is a carrier-grade Flash
memory-based server capable of transcoding up to 16 video assets
simultaneously, and supports the full range of codecs and formats
available with Harmonic’s market-leading Carbon Coder software.
Harmonic’s ProStream 4000 live transcoder and the new ProStream 5000
both support new mobile streaming formats including Apple adaptive
HTTP Live Streaming and Microsoft Smooth Streaming for Silverlight, in
addition to other legacy formats.
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Delivery: Harmonic is also debuting the StreamLiner® 3000 video
streaming servers, a new family of high performance multimedia servers
designed to deliver thousands of streams for a variety of applications
including centralized VOD distribution, regional receiving agents, and
large-scale content delivery network (CDN) architectures. StreamLiner
works seamlessly with Harmonic’s Armada® adaptive asset management
software for multi-screen video delivery and supports HTTP progressive
download, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash and UDP
streaming.
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Workflow: The MediaPrism Workflow Manager, being introduced at
IBC 2009, is a digital media workflow engine that efficiently
automates the flow of assets throughout the content ingest,
transformation and delivery process. It can control scheduling,
recording and playout for the full suite of MediaPrism software, in
addition to other key functions such as ADI metadata processing and
interfaces, EPG parsing and secure content delivery. MediaPrism’s
open, standards-based architecture ensures interoperability with
external components including streaming servers, DRM, storage,
metadata and EPG sources.
"The MediaPrism convergence suite is a comprehensive and integrated set
of software applications designed to leverage service providers’
existing infrastructure while enabling new mobile and Internet video
services that offer an ‘anytime, anywhere’ user experience and bring
incremental revenue potential to the operator,” said Thierry Fautier,
Director of Telco Solutions for Harmonic Inc. "All elements of the
MediaPrism suite are built on open standards and can easily integrate
with third-party components, providing a complete solution that is easy
to deploy and delivers a high quality video service to numerous devices,
including the iPhone, smartphones, PCs, cable/IPTV set-top boxes and
other IP-enabled devices.”
The full MediaPrism software suite for converged multi-screen video
delivery will be on display at Harmonic’s IBC 2009 stand #1.C61,
September 11-15 in Amsterdam.
About Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic Inc. is redefining video delivery with the industry’s most
powerful solutions for delivering live and on-demand video to TVs, PCs
and mobile devices. Harmonic’s 20 years of technical innovation and
market leadership enable the company to offer a unique and comprehensive
solution portfolio—including encoding, transcoding, content preparation,
stream processing, asset management, edge processing, and delivery.
Broadcast, cable, Internet, mobile, satellite and telecom service
providers around the world choose Harmonic’s IP-based digital video,
software, and broadband edge and access solutions. Using these
award-winning and industry-leading solutions, operators can reduce costs
and differentiate their services by offering consumers a higher quality,
personalized multi-screen experience.
Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with
R&D, sales and system integration centers worldwide. The company’s
customers, including many of the world’s largest communications
providers, deliver services in virtually every country. Visit www.harmonicinc.com
for more information.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27(A) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21(E)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements related to:
enabling new mobile and Internet video services, and bringing
incremental revenue potential to the operator.
Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters and the
capabilities and benefits expected from the MediaPrism™ convergence
suite for multi-screen video delivery may not materialize, and actual
results could differ materially from those projected. The
forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also
subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully
described in Harmonic’s filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission including its recent Reports filed on Form 10-K and Form
10-Q. Harmonic does not undertake to update any forward-looking
statements.
EDITOR’S NOTE – Product and company names used herein are trademarks or
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