Cable

IP-based switched digital architectures allow cable operators to utilize the existing narrowcast architecture to deliver more channels within the existing bandwidth. Harmonic offers an end-to-end video delivery solution, starting with a high-end re-encoding platform for staging processing; ad server and CBR splicer for a highly scalable and cost effecting addressable advertising solution; and the NSG 9000 universal edgeQAM.

Harmonic’s open SDV architecture is integrated with all leading session management, OSS, and encryption systems, maximizing flexibility and scalability of the system. It is the only end-to-end SDV platform that assures this interoperability, together with seamless integration of SDV, VOD and DOCSIS streams at the edge QAM. And it’s the only SDV system employing an approach to digital coding that assures superior video quality without sacrificing performance with respect to key functionalities such as ad insertion, channel tuning and bandwidth utilization