Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) has announced that SKY Brasil Serviços Ltda., Brazil's largest direct-to-home (DTH) satellite video service provider with nearly 2 million subscribers, has rolled out its new HDTV service based on Harmonic's market-leading MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) digital video delivery solutions.

Powered by Harmonic's DiviCom Electra® 7000 encoders, ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform with DiviTrackIP™ statistical multiplexing, and NMX Digital Service Manager™, the new service from SKY Brasil is the largest HDTV broadcast offering currently available in the country. Harmonic's DiviCom Electra 7000 AVC encoders enable SKY Brasil to efficiently deliver as many as four full-resolution, variable bit rate (VBR) services and simultaneous low-resolution outputs within a single rack unit. The modular 1-RU ProStream 1000 stream processing platform handles multiplexing, scrambling, and advanced processing of the MPEG streams while NMX Digital Service Manager offers SKY Brasil a powerful set of tools for simple network configuration, monitoring, and automated redundancy.