ProMedia™ Suite Captures Best Mobile TV Technology Award; ProMedia Xpress Earns STAR Award for Technological Innovation in the Broadcast Industry
Wednesday September 19, 2012 — Harmonic, the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that it won multiple awards at the recently concluded IBC2012, Europe’s largest event for the broadcast, cable, satellite, and telco industries. Harmonic’s ProMedia™ Suite 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.
“We are honored to accept these industry awards recognizing Harmonic for its substantial contribution in optimising multiscreen video production and delivery,” said Peter Alexander, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Harmonic. “Harmonic’s comprehensive solutions help our customers cost-effectively deploy traditional television and next-generation multiscreen services with exceptional video quality. These awards further showcase our commitment to creating innovative and scalable technology solutions that move our entire industry forward. ProMedia has been successfully deployed by many tier 1 broadcast and content operators around the world to deliver a more personalized multiscreen television experience.”
The CSI Awards are one of the most comprehensive and competitive technology awards around the world, designed to reward technical and product marketing excellence in the cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcasting, mobile, and IPTV markets. Harmonic’s ProMedia Suite of software solutions was given the CSI Award based on its ability to streamline multiscreen and production video workflows, performing a broad range of processing and streaming functions to enable high-quality video creation and delivery to TVs, PCs, tablets, smartphones, and other IP-connected devices.
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, Oct. 17, at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, FL. 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.