Harmonic Inc.’s (NASDAQ: HLIT) Rhozet™ Carbon Coder™ universal media transcoding software was selected by NBC to prepare Video-On-Demand (VOD) content during the network’s coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Vancouver, February 12-28. Carbon Coder has generated the high-quality, multi-format video used by NBC to deliver Microsoft Smooth Streaming on-demand content for TV, PC, and mobile devices from the NBCOlympics.com website. To deliver the fast turnaround for on-demand viewing that live events of this scale require, Carbon Coder has been deployed by NBC in a farm configuration with multiple nodes controlled by Carbon Server™ software. Carbon Server allows NBC operators to optimize load balance points across multiple CPUs to accelerate the workflow and provide automated processing for high-volume transcoding.
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