If required to, Fox International’s 90 TB MediaGrid system can seamlessly expand to multiple petabytes of capacity without impacting users or applications, providing an exceptional level of investment protection through the ability to simply add additional storage nodes when there is a demand for more performance or capacity.

Stephen Lloyd, Director of Technical Operations at Fox International Channels, said “FIC is committed to consistently evolving our operations while looking for efficiency. The Harmonic MediaGrid solution made it possible to edit-in-place over existing infrastructure allowing greater flexibility for our creative team”.

Harmonic MediaGrid is designed specifically for video workflows, providing the performance of a SAN with the simplicity of NAS. Proven in many of the world’s most demanding video environments, MediaGrid provides Fox International with shared, real-time storage, such as edit-in-place, collaborative editing, transcoding, video on demand and over-the-top (OTT) adaptive bitrate streaming.

Powered by ProMedia® Carbon and Operated by Encoding.com, New Service Offers Greater Flexibility for Broadcast-Quality Video Transcoding

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, has teamed up with Encoding.com, the world’s largest video transcoding service, to offer a highly flexible, cloud-based transcoding service that provides superior video quality, robust format support, and the flexibility of a feature-rich web application. Available as either a pure cloud-based or integrated cloud-burst offering, the new service provides content creators, service providers, and media professionals with an unlimited cloud capacity for converting broadcast-quality video content into virtually any standard media format, including HEVC, utilising a pay-per-use business model for optimising costs.

“Through the virtualisation of data centres and cloud-based transcoding, we’re able to provide service providers and media professionals with a flexible, scalable and, most importantly, affordable strategy for media processing and multiscreen delivery while offering amazing video quality,” said Yoav Derazon, director of product management for cloud services and transcoding, Harmonic. “With this Encoding.com service, Harmonic customers can simplify operations by using their existing presets and profiles either locally or in the cloud, as well as seamlessly divert workloads to local processing or the cloud as needed, thereby speeding up the transcoding process and controlling costs by allocating workloads dynamically.”

Harnessing the pure cloud-based service, users can achieve specialized professional media workflow capabilities (e.g., production, playout, DRM, etc.) without actually operating any equipment. By allowing users to rely on existing ProMedia® Carbon presets, without having to redefine the settings, the pure cloud-based solution operated by Encoding.com offers exceptional video quality.

Designed for existing Harmonic customers utilising ProMedia Carbon with a WFS™ file-based workflow engine, the cloud-burst service enables users to affordably address fluctuating transcoding volume requirements by giving them access to an unlimited cloud capacity without requiring additional infrastructure equipment. Operation is seamless; users can simply divert workloads to a watch folder that is routed to the Encoding.com cloud. Armed with the ability to burst to the cloud, users can significantly reduce content turnaround time from source to target.

As the leader in cloud-based media processing, Encoding.com not only offers Harmonic ProMedia Carbon customers a dynamically scalable and affordable burst solution while maintaining existing profiles, but also enables a powerful suite of workflow features for DRM, caption conversion, video hosting, watermarking and more.

“With this partnership, we are combining the best in on-premise encoding solutions with the best in cloud-based media processing,” said Jeff Malkin, president at Encoding.com. “ProMedia Carbon implemented within the Encoding.com platform empowers customers to generate best-in-breed quality videos while leveraging the elastic capacity of the cloud and the flexibility to maintain workflow requirements in the ever-changing broadcast and multiscreen video landscape.” 

Company Also Announces First VOS-Based Product, Electra™ XVM: A Virtual Media Processor Combining Advanced Compression, Playout and Graphics Capabilities

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced Harmonic VOS, a powerful, extensible software platform and architecture designed to shape the future of video production and delivery. VOS will enable completely virtualized media processing from a single software platform, encompassing historically discreet functions from ingest to playout, graphics, branding, compression, packaging and delivery for broadcast and multiscreen applications. Harmonic will offer the first public demonstrations of VOS at booth SU1210 during the 2014 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 7-10.

VOS has the potential to fundamentally change the video delivery ecosystem by bringing all media processing functions into one simplified, unified platform and workflow, for increased operational flexibility, scalability and efficiency. Operating virtually in IT data center environments, VOS can scale up or down to accommodate peaks in demand based on capacity and functional requirements across all video services.

“Harmonic VOS represents the future of video production and delivery, enabling the transformation to software defined, integrated and operationally elastic infrastructure,” said Patrick Harshman, president and CEO of Harmonic. “Video content providers and service providers want greater flexibility, speed and the ability to leverage the cost-effective scale of IT environments. With VOS, our customers will be able to create and distribute new video content globally in a fraction of the time and with a fraction of the resources that it takes today, with better video quality, while leveraging public and private clouds.”

VOS includes Harmonic’s PURE Compression Engine, providing ground-breaking video quality and bandwidth efficiency for SD, HD and Ultra HD formats, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/AVC and HEVC compression over CBR, VBR and ABR streams.

Harmonic also announced Electra XVM, the first product to be delivered based on VOS. Electra XVM is an integrated package of VOS functionality including the PURE Compression Engine, playout, advanced graphics, packaging and delivery, and operates in data center environments on OpenStack or VMware vSphere environments for maximum operational flexibility. Virtual machine instances of Electra XVM can leverage data center capacity on demand according to the mix of codecs and formats used, from MPEG-2 SD to HEVC Ultra HD.

“Electra XVM represents a new kind of product – and a new kind of capability – for our industry,” said Krish Padmanabhan, senior vice president of video products for Harmonic. “It is completely virtual and completely IP, and offers unprecedented functional breadth and video quality. With workflow efficiency, bandwidth savings and flexible cost models, it changes the economics and flexibility paradigms of content playout, distribution and multi-platform service delivery.”

“Media processing is inevitably moving into the software realm, increasing our operational flexibility while lowering operating costs,” said Clyde Smith, senior vice president of new technology at FOX Network Center. “Harmonic is unique in virtualizing all aspects of media processing – not just encoding – into one architecture.”

Electra XVM is available immediately in a variety of purchase and usage licensing models according to customer requirements.

Efficient File-Based Playout Solution Powers 14 FOX Channels Including the New FOX Sports 1 Network

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that FOX Broadcasting Corporation is updating the entire playout infrastructure at its Los Angeles broadcast center with a Harmonic solution built on Spectrum™ ChannelPort™ branded channel playout. FOX made the shift to efficient file-based playout with integrated master control capabilities in preparation for its new FOX Sports 1 Network, which launched on Aug. 17.

“As a company we’ve never been afraid to innovate, and our investment in Harmonic’s file-based playout solution is part of a major shift in how we produce and deliver content here at FOX,” said Joe Coffaro, vice president of engineering at FOX Networks Engineering & Operations. “The ChannelPort playout and surrounding video infrastructure from Harmonic provides the reliability, functionality, and efficiency we require.”

ChannelPort provides support for up to four channels per rack unit with exceptionally low power consumption, which aligns with FOX’s growth strategy. The FOX network broadcast center in Los Angeles supports 14 FOX channels. This deployment will rely on Harmonic infrastructure that includes Spectrum MediaDeck™ 7000 playout servers equipped with dozens of ChannelPort modules, redundant Harmonic MediaGrid shared storage systems, and MediaCenter™ server controllers with integrated storage that together provide dozens of ingest channels. A redundant Media Application Server will be tightly integrated with the existing automation system at FOX to provide media asset management capabilities for the ChannelPort deployment.

ChannelPort speeds the cost-effective deployment of new SD and HD television channels by integrating branding and master control switching with clip playback on Spectrum, the industry’s most trusted media server platform. Possessing powerful channel-in-a-box capabilities, the high-density ChannelPort enables the keying of multilayer graphics and dynamic text over playback or live video to produce rich on-air looks.

The dual DVE and eight-layer integrated branding capabilities offered by ChannelPort will make it easy for FOX to achieve an on-screen look for sports programming that is challenging and costly to achieve with traditional master control equipment. By placing both the main program and the commercial content on the same screen, a double-box effect allows FOX to go to a commercial break without leaving the action. The commercial runs in a large box while the game or other live program runs in a smaller box in the upper corner of the screen, with a themed background plate that matches the content of the commercial.

“The solution we’re providing to FOX Broadcasting offers an advanced and very robust file-based workflow architecture that will support simpler yet more flexible playout of compelling broadcast content,” said Eric Armstrong, vice president of North America at Harmonic. “As FOX continues to refresh its broadcast and distribution model, this architecture and complementary Harmonic technologies lay the foundation for even greater flexibility and efficiency in delivering highly competitive content.”

Further information about Harmonic and the company’s products is available at www.harmonicinc.com.

Fully Integrated With CMS, DRM, and CDN Technologies, the End-to-End Solution From Harmonic Supports Live, VOD, and Catch-Up TV Services

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that D-Smart, a leading Turkish DTH provider owned by Doğan TV Holding, has selected an end-to-end video preparation solution from Harmonic to power its new OTT multiscreen service offering. D-Smart chose Harmonic’s ProMedia™ adaptive bit rate (ABR), WFS™ file-based workflow, and MediaGrid™ shared storage systems. The integrated solution provides the scalability to deliver high-quality live, VOD, and catch-up TV services to any subscriber device, including TVs, PCs, set-top boxes (STBs), smartphones, and tablets.

“Prior to this deployment, our customers were able to watch linear TV from set-top boxes. In order to expand upon our service offering, we needed an integrated comprehensive video preparation solution,” said Erdoğan Şimşek, DTH platform director at D-Smart. “Harmonic provided us with a complete package for encoding, packaging, recording, and playout, making it possible to stream live, VOD, and catch-up TV content to a wide range of devices, efficiently and cost-effectively. Thanks to the intensity and exceptional level of customer support that Harmonic brought to the project, this OTT deployment was a complete success from start to finish.”

The Harmonic multiscreen solution at D-Smart is part of an end-to-end workflow that includes full integration with content management system (CMS) and middleware technologies from KIT Digital, digital rights management (DRM) technology from Discretix, and OTT content delivery network (CDN) services from Broadpeak.

The adaptive streaming services for D-Smart’s new service offering are orchestrated by Harmonic’s ProMedia Live real-time transcoders, which efficiently convert MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC H.264 content to multiple high-quality ABR streams optimized for OTT delivery and multiscreen devices. By splitting encoding across multiple machines, ProMedia Live improves the processing workflow required for delivering streaming video. The platform also handles a variety of metadata information — such as language, captions, ad signaling/insertion — on input and output, further streamlining operations. ProMedia Live is integrated with Harmonic’s ProMedia Package to enable sophisticated transcoding, encapsulation, metadata management and encryption, from a single platform.

D-Smart’s VOD services are powered by Harmonic’s ProMedia Carbon and ProMedia Xpress file-based transcoders. ProMedia Carbon provides a range of critical operations including SD/HD conversion, PAL/NTSC conversion, logo insertion, color space conversion, color correction, and closed-captions extraction. Employing Harmonic’s MicroGrid™ parallel-processing software technology, ProMedia Xpress enables faster-than-real-time transcoding and packaging of broadcast-quality SD and HD video for multiscreen VOD applications. ProMedia Carbon and ProMedia Xpress are controlled by Harmonic’s file-based WFS, which provides automated processing of high-volume transcoding tasks, failover support, job distribution management, job prioritization, load balancing, FTP transfer, status monitoring, and job notification.

Harmonic’s ProMedia Origin and MediaGrid scalable shared storage optimize the delivery of D-Smart’s OTT multiscreen VOD and catch-up TV services leveraging a range of industry-standard protocols, including Apple® HLS, Adobe® HDS, and Microsoft Smooth Streaming. Tight integration between Origin and MediaGrid enable D-Smart to independently scale storage capacity, bandwidth, and streaming capability.

“Turkey is an important country in the video industry and has rapidly growing requirements for video processing and delivery solutions,” said Harout Torossian, regional sales manager, Middle East, Harmonic.

Jakob Hummes, director of presales solutions at Harmonic, added, “The platform deployed by D-Smart is scalable, flexible, and efficient, making it the perfect model for operators wanting to offer next-generation services on a variety of devices. Partnering with a leader like Harmonic, D-Smart will be able to support new standards like MPEG-DASH and HEVC in the future to further increase their service offering and revenue streams.”

The award-winning ProMedia suite and MediaGrid shared storage systems will be featured at Harmonic’s stand 1.B20 during IBC2013 in Amsterdam, Sept. 13-17. Further information about Harmonic and the company’s products is available at www.harmonicinc.com.

Key Highlights Include Demos of Next-Generation Ultra HD Digital Video Format, HEVC Compression, and Branded Channel Playout

At IBC2013 stand 1.B20 Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, will demonstrate the latest solutions designed to optimize the production and delivery of high-value video services in the broadcast, cable, and multiscreen environments. The no. 1 provider in pay TV encoders, broadcast playout servers, IPTV headends, and cable edgeQAM, Harmonic’s solutions enable broadcasters and operators to efficiently prepare and deliver high-quality video content to any viewing device.

“At IBC2013 Harmonic will showcase its ‘glass-to-glass’ integrated broadcast and multiscreen solutions, which deliver dramatically superior video quality, across formats from SD to emerging Ultra HD,” said Peter Alexander, senior vice president of marketing and chief marketing officer at Harmonic. “The product demonstrations at the booth will highlight operational efficiencies, cost savings, and amazing video quality that operators can achieve by leveraging an integrated solution from Harmonic. Leading the industry in supporting next-generation formats and standards like Ultra HD and HEVC, Harmonic helps broadcasters and operators gain time-to-market advantage and monetize their new service offerings. Our true HD demonstration also highlights a practical Ultra HD service, as it delivers Blu-ray quality which is then upconverted by Ultra HD televisions.”

Featured demonstrations at Harmonic’s booth include:

Encoding and Stream Processing

• A unique Ultra HD demonstration powered by Harmonic’s HEVC-ready ProMedia™ family of multiscreen solutions will showcase the exceptional resolution offered by the new format and feature Harmonic’s new Ultra HD reference footage, which will be made available to customers for testing interoperability with HEVC clients.
• A powerful end-to-end true HD 1080p50 playout, encoding and distribution workflow, showcasing 3G-SDI and 1080p support on the Spectrum™ MediaPort™ 7000 real-time video encoder/decoder, as well as 1080p50 H.264 encoding on the Electra™ 8000 universal encoder and 1080p50 H.264 decoding with 3G-SDI output on the ProView™ 7100 integrated receiver-decoder and stream processor.
• New linear ad splicing capabilities on Harmonic’s ProStream® 9100 real-time stream processor, which harnesses the powerful new Quad GbE I/O card for local and regional ad insertion directly into live-to-air MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC SD/HD transport streams.

Storage and Playout

• Demonstrating the capabilities of Harmonic high performance storage, Adobe Premiere will be shown editing 4K content on MediaGrid shared storage system.
• Recent enhancements to the market-leading Spectrum ChannelPort™ branded channel playout module, which includes dual DVE functionality, dual live inputs, independent branding of simulcast channels, and support for external key/fill to enable more powerful graphics; the addition of AVC-Intra and ProRes enables exceptional codec flexibility; and new dynamic subtitle insertion for just-in-time playout of multilingual content.
• New capabilities added to Spectrum media server product line, including support for seamless ad insertion via SCTE 104 triggers; edit-in-place capability for Adobe® Premiere® Pro in the Adobe Creative Cloud; native PitchBlue H.264 playout support for accelerated production-to-playout workflow; Dynamic Audio Shuffle for on-the-fly audio channel mapping during playout; and Audio Mix Down for mixing primary and secondary audio content onto SD output.

Cable Edge

• The industry’s first true CCAP-compliant platform, NSG™ Pro, which possesses the ability to converge high-density universal edgeQAM capabilities with future, integrated CMTS functionality. Featuring built-in DVB encryption and supporting a variety of video and data services, such as cloud DVR, IP video, video on demand (VOD), and M-CMTS to make it an ideal platform for European operators making the transition to an all-IP infrastructure.

In addition to the demonstrations, industry experts from Harmonic are scheduled to speak at various technical sessions during IBC:

• Patrick Waddell, manager, standards and regulatory, at Harmonic, and Joel Wilhite, marketing solutions manager for broadcast and satellite at Harmonic, will participate in the “IP in the Broadcast Studio” tutorial session produced in association with IEEE on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 1:00 p.m.
• Ian Trow, senior director of emerging technology and strategy for Harmonic, will speak at the sessions “Broadcasting Buzz Words: What do I need to know about broadcasting today?” and “Nothing endures but change: What does the future hold?” during the Rising Stars program on Sunday, Sept. 15, starting at 10:45 a.m.

Further information about Harmonic and the company’s products is available at www.harmonicinc.com.

Integrated Video Transcoding, Packaging, Server and Storage Solution from Harmonic Provides Totalmovie with a Flexible and Scalable Workflow

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that Totalmovie, a Grupo Salinas company and leading video streaming and over the top service, has selected a complete multiscreen solution from Harmonic to power its new live TV streaming service. Harmonic’s advanced adaptive bitrate and multicast technology enables Totalmovie customers to view 64 high-quality SD and HD channels in over 40 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Brazil. The premium streaming service has been launched on a wide range of devices including TVs, set-top boxes, tablets, and smartphones. Harmonic was chosen for its expertise in video streaming and its ability to design and deploy integrated solutions within a short span of time, enabling Totalmovie to quickly launch the new OTT multiscreen streaming service to generate additional revenue and become the first multi-country service in Latin America to combine live TV and VOD.

“In a unique distribution approach designed to facilitate rapid expansion of over-the-top video streaming services into new markets, Totalmovie needed a versatile video processing solution capable of supporting both HLS and multicast streaming. We did an exhaustive review of the marketplace and concluded Harmonic as best of class,” said Richard Johnson, president and COO, Totalmovie. “Harmonic provides an ideal integrated solution for our needs, combining IPTV and multi-bitrate transcoding, packaging, video server, and storage. Leveraging the flexibility and scalability offered by the Harmonic multiscreen solutions, we’re able to support a wide range of services, devices, and third-party technologies.”

After downlinking live content, Totalmovie utilizes Harmonic’s ProStream® 1000 with ACE® for real-time video and audio transcoding of multiple SD and HD broadcast channels. Featuring a scalable and flexible architecture, ProStream 1000 with ACE transcodes MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC content into multiple streams of H.264 with multiple video resolutions and bit rates optimized for multiscreen delivery, maximizing Totalmovie’s efficiencies and reducing operating expenses.

Video content is then sent to Harmonic’s ProMedia™ Package adaptive stream preparation system. The entirely software-based solution combines multiple streams of H.264 video and associated audio into a variety of HTTP adaptive bitrate protocols, enabling the secure and efficient delivery of Totalmovie’s OTT multiscreen service. Utilizing the flexible system, Totalmovie can scale to support hundreds of simultaneous streams.

ProMedia Origin and the Harmonic MediaGrid shared-storage system optimize the delivery of the Totalmovie OTT multiscreen catch-up and time-shift services in a range of industry-standard protocols, including Apple® HLS, Adobe® HDS, and Microsoft Smooth Streaming. Relying on the tight integration of Origin and MediaGrid, Totalmovie can independently scale storage capacity, bandwidth, and streaming capability. This level of scalability is crucial to expanding its OTT service offerings and revenue streams in the future.

“Content is king for today’s on-the-go generation of consumers. This innovative OTT multiscreen streaming service enables Totalmovie to deliver high-quality live and VOD content anytime, anywhere, and on any device, giving them a competitive advantage in the marketplace,” said Eric Armstrong, vice president of sales, North America broadcast & satellite, at Harmonic. “Harmonic’s expertise in integration, scalability, and flexibility were key to enabling an end-to-end solution that can scale to support services with any carrier or mobile operator worldwide, while reducing our customer’s operating expenses.”

Further information about Harmonic and the company’s products is available at www.harmonicinc.com.

New MPEG-4 AVC HD 4:2:2 10-Bit Encoder Assures Premium Image Quality, with the Performance and Reliability Critical for News and Event Video Delivery

Harmonic, the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, brings its many years of video compression expertise and experience with tier-1 broadcasters and service providers to the high-end contribution market with the release of the Ellipse® 3000 contribution encoder. The Ellipse 3000 employs MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:0/4:2:2 8-bit and 10-bit compression technologies to enable transmission of pristine real-time video over satellite and broadband contribution networks. By encoding the highest possible picture quality at the front end of the broadcast chain, the Ellipse 3000 is one more way in which Harmonic is enabling amazing video experiences.

“Offering broad codec support and simple in-field firmware upgradability Ellipse 3000 is a future-proof platform spanning MPEG-2 SD 4:2:0 8-bit to AVC HD 4:2:2 10-bit,” said Yaniv Sibony, product manager for contribution and distribution at Harmonic. “The combination of Ellipse 3000 and ProView 7100 IRD, which we introduced at IBC 2012, enables a highly flexible and easy-to-use solution for end-to-end 4:2:2 10-bit contribution workflows.”

Very low latency in conjunction with multiformat and multicodec versatility make the Ellipse 3000 ideal for digital satellite news gathering (DSNG) operations and live sports coverage — or any application in which premium image quality and high performance are primary considerations.

To assure universal compatibility, the Ellipse 3000 supports DVB-S, DVB-DSNG, and DVB-S2 modulation schemes, and provides QPSK/8PSK/16QAM/16APSK constellation support. Simultaneous L-band, IP, and DVB-ASI outputs assure reliability by providing alternate distribution channels in the event of link failure.

The Ellipse 3000 high-end contribution encoder will be demonstrated at Harmonic’s booth SU1411 during the 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 8-11. The new contribution encoder is expected to ship in June 2013.

Highlights Include Demonstrations of Next-Generation Ultra HD Digital Video Format, HEVC Compression, and Contribution Encoding

At booth SU1411 at the 2013 NAB Show, Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, continues to set the bar for achieving operational and network cost-efficiencies in broadcast and multiscreen production and delivery, while enhancing the viewer experience. The company will showcase solutions that enable more efficient multiformat content production, more cost-effective distribution of content over any network, and better support of high-quality video delivery, regardless of the display device. Throughout the show, Harmonic will also provide demonstrations of the next-generation Ultra HD digital video format and HEVC compression, as well as its latest Ellipse® contribution encoder.

“Our 2013 NAB booth will demonstrate how integrated solutions from Harmonic provide greater flexibility and efficiency while delivering amazing video experiences,” said Peter Alexander, senior vice president of marketing and chief marketing officer at Harmonic. “We will be showcasing solutions that address virtually every media production and delivery model today — and support emerging models that leverage technologies such as the MPEG-DASH streaming and HEVC compressions standards for even greater efficiency gains.”

Featured demonstrations at Harmonic’s booth include:

Encoding and Stream Processing for Broadcast and Multiscreen

• Ultra HD, the new super high-definition television format that promises four times the resolution of current 1080p HDTV.
• HEVC encoding, which improves OTT delivery and supports a wide range of compelling applications.
• A complete multiscreen workflow with the award-winning Harmonic ProMedia™ Suite, including new ad insertion and monetization capabilities, time-shift features, broad support for ecosystem partners, and live MPEG-DASH streaming.
• Cloud-based transcoding that complements operators' existing technology investments for greater flexibility, as well as reducing capital and operating expenses.
• New audio capabilities in the industry-leading Electra® universal multifunction, multiformat encoding platform that powers more than 75,000 channels worldwide, due in part to its high-density, energy-efficient design that reduces operating costs and delivers excellent value per channel.

Production and Playout

• A new addition to the Ellipse line of universal contribution encoders that combines pristine image quality with ultra-low latency.
• Enhancements to the market-leading Spectrum™ media server product line, including Spectrum ChannelPort™ integrated channel playout system with new powerful channel-in-a-box capabilities such as dual DVEs with independent branding.
• File-based transcoding with ProMedia Carbon featuring a wide array of acquisition, nonlinear editing, broadcast, web, and mobile formats.
• Collaborative editing with Harmonic MediaGrid scalable shared storage optimized for video workflows that provides the performance of a SAN with the simplicity of NAS, making it ideal for production environments.

In addition to the demonstrations, industry experts from Harmonic are scheduled to speak at the Broadcast Engineering Conference during NAB.

• Thierry Fautier, senior director of convergence solutions at Harmonic, will present “Use Cases for the New HEVC Standard” on Sunday, April 7, at 2 p.m. in room S225/226.
• Ian Trow, senior director of emerging technology and strategy for Harmonic, will present “Which Broadcast Workflow Will Deliver Ultra High Definition to the Home?” on Sunday, April 7, at 4 p.m. in room S225/226.

Further information about Harmonic and the company’s full product line is available at www.harmonicinc.com.