C-COR and Harmonic Introduce Turnkey Switched Digital Video Solution

June 22, 2007

Source: C-COR

C-COR Incorporated and Harmonic Inc. are accelerating the rollout of switched digital video (SDV) with the first comprehensive, pre-integrated solution for the cable market. The offering brings together Harmonic's compression and edgeQAM technology leadership with C-COR's expertise in pioneering on demand and advertising management, enabling operators to quickly build and efficiently manage the widespread rollout of SDV. Components of the solution include C-COR's nABLE(TM) Session and Resource Manager and Harmonic's NSG(TM) 9000 universal edgeQAM and ProStream(TM) 1000 stream processing platform with Mentor(TM) re-encoding technology. The joint solution will be demonstrated at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2007, at Harmonic's booth #373 and C-COR's booth #1678.

"This solution gives cable operators access to a comprehensive and open switched digital video solution, including everything they need to quickly and cost effectively meet their deployment goals," said Basil Badawiyeh, Vice President, On Demand Strategy, C-COR. "Our work with Harmonic results in a switched digital video offering that brings together the ability to reclaim bandwidth capacity, audience measurement and advertising capabilities packaged in an open and end-to-end environment."

"Switched digital video is garnering significant attention as a way to free up valuable bandwidth. Integrated solutions simplify deployment and management for operators," said Gil Katz, Director of Cable Solutions, Harmonic Inc. "In working with C-COR to develop an end-to-end switched digital solution, we are making it possible for operators to deploy the best technology components in an open environment that reclaims capacity needed for next-generation applications."

The joint offering leverages the experience and market leadership of both companies. C-COR brings expertise in architecting and managing services and content delivery in more than 200 on demand sites and 100 digital advertising systems worldwide. Harmonic brings an unmatched track record in on demand video delivery, powering more than 2.5 million streams of narrowcast video with the NSG family of edgeQAMs. Harmonic's high quality, low bit-rate compression solutions for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video services are also deployed by most of the world's leading cable, satellite and telco operators.

C-COR's modular broadband capacity solutions, operational service support and array of revenue-generating video services enable service providers to build and maintain a sustainable, competitive network. C-COR's on demand product line is deployed in markets of all sizes around the world including New York and Los Angeles. The company's nABLE back office management software was the industry's first open and interoperable back office on demand software and is the cornerstone of the C-COR Unified Management and Delivery Platform, providing complete service and content delivery of on demand, time-shifted TV, switched digital video, linear and advanced advertising capabilities. C-COR's switched digital video solution is an open architecture, software-centric approach that helps operators more efficiently manage their valuable HFC bandwidth while continuing to capitalize on targeted advertising revenue streams.

Harmonic's ProStream 1000 with Mentor re-encoding technology is the world's first ultra-dense, fully integrated MPEG-2 standard definition re-encoding platform. Its unique processing technology delivers the best possible CBR video quality by combining resilient and compliant decoding with an extremely powerful and flexible compression engine. The high density NSG 9000 universal edgeQAM is a proven and deployed solution for on-demand, broadcast, SDV and modular CMTS applications. Harmonic's open SDV architecture is interoperable with leading session management, OSS, and encryption systems, maximizing flexibility and scalability of the system.

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