Harmonic will demonstrate an innovative and versatile new solution for delivery of video content over the Internet to a variety of devices, including television sets, PCs, personal media players and mobile devices. This end-to-end demonstration includes technologies from Harmonic, Advanced Digital Broadcast, Amino, PeerTV and Stream Group, and encompasses encoding, transcoding, streaming, middleware and client devices including the Nokia N95 mobile phone.

The ability to deliver any video content to any device, in real time or on demand, is quickly becoming a critical requirement for video service providers to remain competitive. The flexibility of IP technology is a key enabler for a multi-screen video experience including advanced Internet TV and mobile video services. For several years, Harmonic has led the industry in developing and deploying all-IP video delivery solutions, including the world’s first all-IP headend solution, and compression, file-based and real-time transcoding, statistical multiplexing and video stream processing products with native IP support.

Integrated with Harmonic’s market-leading encoders and a new transcoding solution to be introduced at IBC, the demonstration features solutions from:

• ADB (stand #4.B48): Windows Media and Flash content received directly from the Internet on an IPTV STB will be displayed on TV, using ADB’s 3800/10 series set-top box
• Amino (stand #5.B40): Internet streaming using the AmiNET125 multi-codec Set-Top Box will be displayed on TV
• PeerTV: The PeerStation, an affordable, extremely flexible Internet TV set-top can transform any web page in real-time for display in a TV-friendly format
• Stream Group: The Solocoo iTV middleware platform from Stream Group utilizes an IP/open Internet architecture to bring a seamless mix of broadcast channels and Internet content to consumers
• Nokia: Mobile video will be encoded using Harmonic products and streamed in H.264 baseline format over a WiFi network to a Nokia N95 mobile phone

Harmonic’s solutions for Internet TV and mobile video delivery—including the DiviCom encoders, MediaPrism content preparation suite, Rhozet universal transcoding, ProStream stream processing and transcoding, StreamLiner 2000 for real-time streaming and progressive download delivery, and NMX Digital Service Manager—can be integrated with the existing broadcast and on-demand video infrastructure, providing operators with a cost-effective and scalable architecture for multi-screen video delivery.