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• Content Preparation – For offline content preparation Harmonic’s portfolio includes the CLEARcut™ offline Encoding studio, which utilizes Harmonic’s award winning DiviCom Electra encoders to achieve best video quality and minimal storage size. For live content ingestion, the Electra and Ion™ encoders offer high-quality MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video, while the ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform with Mentor™ re-encoding technology is the world’s only dense re-encoding solution for converting incoming VBR content to CBR without impacting the video quality
• Content Ingest – The Ingest Gateway is a simple and intuitive workflow system responsible for ingesting offline content from catchers or encoding stations, processing metadata, interacting with conditional access systems (CAS) and distributing the content to the on-demand servers. LIVEcut™ is a new addition to the ingest solutions that offers an operator the ability to schedule, manage and control the live content to be ingested into the on-demand servers.
• Content Distribution – Harmonic’s Armada® intelligent asset manager is the world’s most advanced content delivery system. Leveraging years of research, it takes advantage of advanced algorithms for reactive distribution of content based on ever-changing consumer behavior in various serving areas, and is the first solution to leverage the long tail nature of content, saving the operator significant investment on video servers platforms and IP network transport

• Delivery – The StreamLiner® is an advanced video delivery software system that runs on off-the-shelf hardware from server vendors such as IBM and HP. It is a highly scalable, flexible and reliable video server.
• Edge & Access – Harmonic’s world-leading edge and access components for on-demand delivery include the NSG family of edgeQAMs, the world’s most widely deployed edgeQAM, as well as a wide array of fiber optic and HFC equipment.

In the last eight years, Harmonic has been involved as the edgeQAM solution provider for more than 50% of the VOD deployments worldwide. Harmonic edgeQAMs are known for their reliability, scalability and ease of operation. Harmonic leverages its expertise to resolve reliability, scalability and expandability issues, providing a highly scalable content ingest platform and scalable storage and streaming solution. Harmonic’s virtualized server solution introduces a new class of on-demand platform, addressing both CAPEX and OPEX challenges, and having the following unique capabilities:

• Single copy of each asset; saves rack space, power and cabling
• “Any-to-Any” - Any server to any QAM, transparently to the back-office and resource manager; resulting in up to 50% saving of video server cost

• Automatic network topology discovery
  • Simple expansion of streaming server without with the need for back-office modification
  • Simple expansion of Storage space without the need for back-office modification
  • Simple expansion of QAMs and service groups

Harmonic is heavily focused on developing and deploying advanced on-demand solutions, as evidenced by the ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform with Mento re-encoding technology, the NSG 9000 scalable edgeQAM, NSG support for DVB-SIMULCRYPT and Motorola Privacy Mode encryption, and the CLEARcut encoding solution.

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