Provide an Integrated Solution to Produce, Manage, Protect, Distribute and Archive Digital Content
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 20, 2009--
A collaborative group of technology providers – Harmonic Inc.
(NASDAQ:HLIT), Open Text, and Signiant – working with Microsoft
announced today at NAB 2009 the demonstration of an open and integrated
approach to providing fast and cost-effective ways for media and
entertainment companies (M&E) to produce, manage, protect, distribute
and store digital content.
“I am pleased to see this collaborative approach being taken to address
a critical need in the market,” said Bart Palmer, Senior Vice President
of Media Engineering, Discovery Communications. “As an early technology
adopter, Discovery has traditionally had to build interoperable
solutions ourselves, being able to leverage out-of-the-box integration
from these best of breed products will enable us to significantly lower
cost and bring innovative solutions to our users faster.”
Microsoft Corp., Harmonic, Open Text Digital Media Group and Signiant
worked in conjunction to provide a collaborative digital production and
distribution solution enabling M&E companies to overcome the common
technical challenges of managing and moving digital assets around the
world. The collaborative solution is different because it uses an open,
service oriented architecture so customers can integrate applications
into their current IT infrastructure. This provides a single interface
for managing digital content every step of the way – from production and
editing to distribution and archiving.
“The rapid rate of change in the global media and entertainment industry
makes it difficult for media and entertainment companies to quickly
create products that enable them to take full advantage of new
opportunities and channels,” said Jake Winett, Global Industry Manager
for Media & Entertainment in the Communications Sector at Microsoft. “By
integrating our core server technologies, such as Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, with our
partners’ applications, we have developed a digital content management
solution that provides more flexible workflows and improves
collaboration for media and entertainment companies.”
“This collaboration will give M&E companies a technology advantage so
they can better optimize emerging revenue streams found on the Web, on
mobile devices and in new formats such as high-definition,” said Damian
Saccocio, VP, Product Marketing, Open Text Digital Media Group. “This
collaborative solution is all about helping M&E companies find the true
value of their content.”
“The companies involved in this open collaborative model are dedicated
to helping M&E customers get rid of cumbersome old methodologies that
make it difficult for digital content to be utilized to its fullest
potential,” said David Trescot, Vice President of the Rhozet Business
Unit at Harmonic Inc. “An important part of this approach then is making
sure one digital format can be translated and converted to another.”
"We are able to quickly and cost effectively move and transform enormous
digital files over the WAN to speed the process of getting content where
it needs to be: in front of audiences," said Robert Browne, Founder and
Vice President of Business Development, Signiant. "It doesn't matter if
that audience is in a movie theater or watching a video on the web."
Developed with TechPath, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Microsoft
will be demonstrating a new solution approach integrated with other
third party applications at Booth SL720 at the NAB Show being held at
the Las Vegas Convention Center, 18-23 April 2009.
The solution will demonstrate:
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for workflow, collaboration,
analytics dashboards and user interfaces. For more information visit
Microsoft at NAB Booth SL720.
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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 for process orchestration, web service
integration and task and activity monitoring.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for relational database and cube analytics.
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Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 for media preview and user interface.
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Open Text Digital Media Group (formerly Artesia) will enable
streamlined workflows for the ingestion, tagging, searching,
transforming, and packing of the media. For more information visit
Open Text at NAB Booth SU11417.
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Harmonic’s Rhozet CarbonCoder provides media transcoding. For
additional information please visit Harmonic’s Rhozet Booth SL9728 at
NAB.
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Signiant’s Content Distribution Management software provides fast,
reliable, intelligent large-file delivery anywhere in the world. The
Signiant team will be available in Booth SL4508 at NAB.
About Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic Inc. is a leading provider of versatile and high performance
video solutions that enable service providers to efficiently deliver the
next generation of broadcast and on-demand services including high
definition, video-on-demand, network personal video recording and
time-shifted TV. Cable, satellite, broadcast and telecom service
providers can increase revenues and lower operational expenditures by
using Harmonic’s digital video, broadband optical access and software
solutions to offer consumers the compelling and personalized viewing
experience that is driving the business models of the future.
Rhozet, a business unit of Harmonic Inc., is dedicated to providing
accelerated high-quality media transcoding solutions. The Rhozet
solutions are offered in both off-the-shelf and customized software
configurations for the production and content delivery markets. For more
information about Rhozet technology please visit www.rhozet.com.
Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with
R&D, sales and system integration centers worldwide. The Company’s
customers, including many of the world’s largest communications
providers, deliver services in virtually every country. Visit www.harmonicinc.com
for more information.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27(A) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21(E)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements related to:
the rapid rate of change in the global media and entertainment industry,
giving M&E companies a technology advantage, and better optimizing
emerging revenue streams.
Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters and the benefits
expected from the integrated solution for digital content may not
materialize, and actual results could differ materially from those
projected. The forward-looking statements contained in this press
release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including
those more fully described in Harmonic’s filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission including its recent Reports filed on Form 10-K and
Form 10-Q. Harmonic does not undertake to update any forward-looking
statements.
EDITOR’S NOTE – Product and company names used herein are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Source: Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic Inc.
Sarah Lum, +1-408-543-2392 (Media)
sarah.lum@harmonicinc.com
or
StreetConnect
for Harmonic
Michael Newman, +1-408-542-2760 (Investors)
hlit@stct.com
or
Rhozet
Sarah
Kavanagh, +1-650-726-3482 (Public Relations)
sarah@kavanaghpr.com
