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Internet / T-Online France Deploys Harmonic’s Market-Leading
Digital Video Systems for New IP-Based Television Service |
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DiviCom® Multi-Service Encoders Power Europe's First
Commercially Deployed Video Service Based on Microsoft
TV Platform –
Sunnyvale, Calif. - July 18, 2006 - Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:
HLIT) today announced that T-Online France, a subsidiary
of Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT), has deployed Harmonic’s
DiviCom® Electra™ 5000 multi-service encoders
to power its new Club Internet ADSL-based digital television
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A comprehensive video, voice and data triple play offering
that is now available throughout France, Club Internet
TV is the first video service to be commercially launched
in Europe using the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) TV IPTV
Edition software platform. Harmonic's full range of
market-leading MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) standard
definition (SD) and high definition (HD) headend solutions
are selected by top tier telco operators around the
world—including for the majority of European IPTV
deployments to date—to deliver high quality, low
bit-rate video services using the existing DSL-based
infrastructure.
Television
is undergoing a revolutionary shift as communications
and multimedia services converge toward an integrated,
more personalized and on-demand experience. Operators
can take full advantage of the flexibility made possible
with Harmonic's IP-based video headend infrastructure
to support a variety of new and dynamic services.
T-Online France's Club Internet TV service is setting
a new standard by offering consumers more than 150
SD broadcast television channels, a full complement
of video-on-demand (VOD) and subscription VOD programs,
an intuitive and feature-rich interactive program
guide with picture-in-picture, personal video recorder
(PVR), and fast channel change capability. The versatility
and advanced features of the IP-based DiviCom encoders
are especially critical for telco operators like T-Online
France as they launch new video services and further
extend the infrastructure to support HD, VOD and other
bandwidth-intensive services.
Harmonic
works closely with Microsoft TV and a variety of industry
partners to create leading-edge IPTV solutions that
reduce time-to-market, risk and operational complexity
for T-Online France and other operators, while advancing
and enhancing the viewing experience for their subscribers.
The DiviCom encoders, which powered the world's first
service to transition from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 AVC via
a firmware upgrade and the first all MPEG-4 AVC service,
are at the heart of most of the leading IP-based video
services in operation around the world.
The Electra 5000 multi-service encoder offers unparalleled
flexibility for existing and emerging applications such
as picture-in-picture and video to the PC by encoding
a single channel in multiple formats, multiple channels
in a single format, or multiple channels in different
formats. With the Electra 5000, T-Online France can
seamlessly support full resolution MPEG-2 SD television
services and low resolution picture-in-picture in MPEG-4
format, further reducing cost and complexity of the
video service. The versatility of the Harmonic encoders
also enables T-Online to easily transition to an all
MPEG-4 service in the future.
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