Kabel BW has selected Harmonic and eventIS solutions for its VOD commercial trial, to be launched in late 2009. This implementation represents Germany’s first major cable VOD service deployment. Harmonic is powering the complete VOD delivery infrastructure, with industry-leading products including StreamLiner 2000 video servers, Armada intelligent asset manager, CLEARcut offline content preparation, Rhozet Carbon Coder universal transcoding, NSG 9000 universal edgeQAMs, ProStream 1000 stream processing platform and NMX Digital Service Manager. Kabel BW has selected the eventIS TRAXIS, SPECTRIS and PRODIS VOD back-office products.

Harmonic's unique portfolio of digital video solutions spans the complete video delivery chain, from asset creation and video stream processing to distribution and network management for broadcast and on-demand services. Harmonic’s CLEARcut, LIVEcut and Carbon Coder products comprise the MediaPrism content preparation software suite—a comprehensive range of tools to create digital HD and SD assets in various formats and resolutions for VOD, time-shifted TV, digital ad insertion, Internet video and mobile TV. In addition, StreamLiner and Armada provide a dynamic and high quality storage and distribution solution for the VOD content. The market-leading NSG 9000 universal edgeQAM is ideal for VOD, broadcast, modular CMTS, cable IPTV and other applications.

Harmonic’s VOD and multi-screen video delivery solutions will be on display at stand #H.21 during the ANGA Cable exhibition taking place in Cologne, Germany from May 26-28.