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digiGO! — NAB: Harmonic’s Astute NAB Debuts

Harmonic Inc. Booth SU7209 — The Company will debut its latest solutions for multi-screen content preparation, streaming, and delivery. Harmonic’s unified solutions allow operators to simply and cost-effectively enhance their existing networks while also adding new revenue-generating services streamed to a variety of devices such as PCs and video-enabled smartphones. Complementing these next generation video solutions is advertisement serving and splicing technology that can further monetize these new delivery models. Key highlights of Harmonic’s presence at this year’s NAB show include:
    Harmonic DiviCom Electra 8000 encoder
  • Harmonic’s new and ground-breaking DiviCom Electra® 8000 universal broadcast encoder, the ideal solution for broadcasters looking to offer higher quality HD while freeing up bandwidth for video to mobile devices via the ATSC mobile/handheld (M/H) standard
  • Demonstrations of next-generation 1080p, scalable video coding (SVC) and ATSC M/H encoding technology
  • Harmonic’s StreamLiner™ video server and ProStream™ 4000 transcoder for on-demand and real-time multi-screen video delivery over any network (UDP, HTTP, Flash, RTSP, 3GPP) to any device (HDTV sets, PCs, mobile devices)
  • The MediaPrism™ software suite of real-time and offline content aggregation tools for repurposing of video content for new on-demand and multi-screen consumption models
  • Harmonic’s new product and solution portfolio for contribution and distribution applications, building on technology gained from the recent acquisition of Scopus Video Networks
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Harmonic‘s Rhozet™ business unit will also demonstrate its latest enhancements to the market-leading Carbon Coder™ universal transcoder at Booth SL9728. Carbon Coder facilitates the transfer of media between a variety of platforms, including acquisition, editing, playout, archive, the Internet and mobile devices. Harmonic’s advanced compression solutions will be featured as part of the Sinclair Broadcast Group‘s ATSC M/H solution at Booth C8546N (Sinclair) and Booth C1336 (Acrodyne).