Satnews Daily
September 20th, 2012

Harmonic... Award Winning Ways @ IBC2012... (SatBroadcasting™—Transcoder + Tech)


[SatNews] Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) has won multiple awards at the recently concluded...

...IBC2012, Europe’s largest event for the broadcast, cable, satellite, and telco industries. Harmonic’s ProMediaSuite received the “Best Mobile TV Technology or Service” award from CSI magazine, while the company’s ProMedia Xpress—a new high-performance, file-based transcoder—was named a TV Technology Europe Superior Technology Award Recipient (STAR). These awards highlight the company’s leadership in innovation, video quality and solution flexibility.

As the newest addition to Harmonic’s ProMedia family of multiscreen software and appliance solutions, ProMedia Xpress was presented with a TV Technology Europe STAR award at IBC by a panel of judges, including TV Technology editors, columnists, and industry experts, in honor of outstanding technological innovation in the broadcast industry. ProMedia Xpress facilitates cost-effective, faster-than-real-time transcoding of content for multiscreen VOD delivery, enabling operators to efficiently launch new services without compromising the quality of their offering.


Harmonic has also been named a finalist in the upcoming Communications Technology (CT) Platinum Awards contest, which will be presented during an exclusive awards breakfast at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, October 17th, at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Shortlisted for the awards are Harmonic’s ProStream® 1000 with ACE® real-time stream processor/transcoder and ProMedia Suite, which are being judged in the digital headend equipment and multiscreen video solution categories based on excellence in technology innovation. ProStream 1000 with ACE is the industry’s first truly converged solution for advanced processing and transcoding of SD and HD MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video and audio for broadcast and over-the-top (OTT) mobile/web applications.