Harmonic announces that Santa Barbara Utilities has selected Harmonic’s industry-leading digital video solutions for a new broadcast and on-demand IPTV service at the Santa Barbara Plantation Resort Community in Curaçao, the most populous island in the Netherlands Antilles. The end-to-end IPTV deployment includes Harmonic’s Ion AVC HD encoders, ProStream 1000 stream processing platform, StreamLiner video servers, Armada intelligent asset management and NMX Digital Service Manager.

Standard definition video sources are received from satellite and multiplexed using Harmonic’s versatile ProStream 1000 stream processor for the IP encapsulation. The Ion AVC encoders are used to compress and deliver the HD channels for the broadcast service. On-demand assets are stored and delivered using Harmonic’s StreamLiner video servers and Armada asset management system, which dynamically distributes content across the network based on popularity. The entire video service is monitored and controlled via NMX.