Harmonic Unveils MediaPrism Convergence Suite for Multi-Screen Video Delivery at IBC 2009

Harmonic Inc. announced it introduced the MediaPrism convergence suite for multi-screen video delivery to the TV, PC, iPhone and other mobile devices at IBC 2009.

Deployed by Tier 1 service providers for new mobile and Internet video service trials, MediaPrism is a solution for converged video delivery, encompassing live and offline content ingest, transformation, delivery and workflow management.

The MediaPrism convergence suite is designed to support a variety of mobile and Internet delivery formats, including Microsoft Silverlight, Apple adaptive HTTP Live Streaming and Adobe Flash, in addition to legacy mobile video formats, existing broadcast TV and video-on-demand services.

Features of the MediaPrism suite include:

- Content Ingest: Harmonic's ClearCut offline and LiveCut real-time content preparation solutions make it possible for service providers to capture and prepare assets for multi-screen viewing. ClearCut prepares assets from tape or DVD sources while LiveCut is a highly scalable solution for live ingest and content export that offers an expanded set of capabilities.

- Transformation: At IBC 2009, Harmonic is introducing the new ProStream 5000 file-based universal transcoder powered by Carbon Coder technology. The ProStream 5000 is a carrier-grade Flash memory-based server capable of transcoding up to 16 video assets simultaneously, and supports the full range of codecs and formats available with Harmonic's Carbon Coder software. Harmonic's ProStream 4000 live transcoder and the new ProStream 5000 both support new mobile streaming formats including Apple adaptive HTTP Live Streaming and Microsoft Smooth Streaming for Silverlight, in addition to other legacy formats.

- Delivery: Harmonic is also debuting the StreamLiner 3000 video streaming servers, a family of multimedia servers designed to deliver thousands of streams for a variety of applications including centralized VOD distribution, regional receiving agents, and large-scale content delivery network (CDN) architectures. StreamLiner works with Harmonic's Armada adaptive asset management software for multi-screen video delivery and supports HTTP progressive download, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash and UDP streaming.

"The MediaPrism convergence suite is an integrated set of software applications designed to leverage service providers' existing infrastructure while enabling new mobile and Internet video services that offer an 'anytime, anywhere' user experience and bring incremental revenue potential to the operator," said Thierry Fautier, Director of Telco Solutions for Harmonic. "All elements of the MediaPrism suite are built on open standards and can integrate with third-party components, providing a complete solution that deploy and deliver a video service to numerous devices, including the iPhone, smartphones, PCs, cable/IPTV set-top boxes and other IP-enabled devices."

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