Harmonic's Rhozet media transcoding technology has been selected by ITN. Rhozet Carbon Coder is being used by ITN for the transcoding and packaging of news and other multiplatform content to a wide range of customers around the globe.

ITN delivers broadband content through a wide variety of outlets, including Vodafone, MSN, Yahoo!, Orange, T-Mobile, Mirror Group, Virgin Media, Telegraph Group, YouTube and Bebo, and its own online newsroom. The increasing amount of content to be distributed to a growing number of destinations prompted ITN to select Rhozet Carbon Coder, a comprehensive media transcoding solution that provides a high level of performance, control and scalability. Rhozet Carbon Coder, deployed in a multi-node “farm” configuration and working in conjunction with ITN’s in-house NeMeSys content management system, allows ITN to rapidly deliver nearly 1000 video clips each day to its mobile, broadband, IPTV and commercial archive footage clients.

Harmonic’s Rhozet Carbon Coder is a universal transcoding application that facilitates the transfer of media between a variety of platforms, including acquisition, editing, playout, archive, the Internet and mobile devices. Carbon Coder can run as a stand-alone application or as part of a multi-node, fully-automated rendering farm. Carbon Coder provides high-performance, scalable and cost-effective transcoding for a broad range of business environments, from specialized studios to enterprise-scale installations.