Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced Broadcast Equipment India Pvt. Ltd. (BEI), has deployed Harmonic's Ellipse™ 1000 MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) contribution encoder in the first commercial HD and SD teleport facility in India. The Ellipse 1000's advanced encoding capabilities provide broadcasters a smooth migration path to HDTV with the unique ability to simultaneously transmit MPEG-2 SD and MPEG-4 AVC SD/HD video to multiple transponders.

Located at Sector-63 Noida (NCR Delhi) in India, BEI's commercial teleport facility has the capacity to uplink 16 services to four transponders for transmission over INSAT-2E for broadcasting in India and to the entire footprint of the INSAT-2E. The facility can also transmit the video signal to other parts of the world through BEI’s collaboration with BT. BEI also provides optical fiber link access to the teleport facility from customer locations anywhere in India.