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Harmonic to Provide MediaGrid(TM) Shared Storage Systems and ProMedia(TM) Carbon Transcoding for NBC Olympics' Production of the London Games
(Thomson Reuters ONE (English) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Integration of Omneon Storage With Avid Interplay and Transcoders Gives
NBC Olympics Fast, Flexible Media Access in File-Based Production Workflow
For Secondary Media Outlets
SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 14, 2012 - Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced
that it will provide Omneon MediaGrid(TM) shared storage systems and
ProMedia(TM) Carbon enterprise transcoding software to NBC Olympics, a division
of the NBC Sports Group, during its production of the 2012 London Olympic Games
from London, England, July 27 - Aug. 12. The announcement was made today by
David Mazza, senior vice president of engineering for NBC Olympics, and Matt
Adams, Harmonic vice president of broadcast solutions for the Olympics.
The Harmonic media storage and transcoding systems will enable NBC Olympics to
process and deliver high-quality content quickly, while relying entirely on
digital media in a file-based environment within the NBC Olympics Highlights
Factory, which is used to support content creation for NBCOlympics.com, mobile
platform distribution, and IPTV and VOD services. The integration of the
MediaGrid storage systems with Avid edit and media management systems
facilitates a fast, highly efficient file-based highlights production workflow
in which all editors have immediate and simultaneous access to content.
To ensure fast turnaround for on-demand content, NBC Olympics will use a
ProMedia Carbon transcoding farm to generate the high-quality multiformat video
delivered to TVs, PCs, and mobile devices via the NBCOlympics.com website.
Supporting an extensive array of acquisition, editing, broadcast, Web, and
mobile video formats, ProMedia Carbon minimizes file movement and improves
workflow efficiency by enabling all transcoding operations to be performed in
place on the MediaGrid file system.
"This is the third consecutive Olympic Games in which Harmonic's solutions have
played a critical role in the broadcast workflow," said Adams. "The combination
of high performance, management simplicity, and broad support for media
applications makes MediaGrid an optimal choice compared with other storage
products, and the addition of ProMedia Carbon's broad format support, high-
quality output, fast transcoding speed and enterprise-class scalability creates
an ideal solution for delivering the vast amount of coverage from live events of
this scale."
"When we're able to give our production team unrestricted access to all media,
with search tools that help them to find the best shots, we enable them to
create segments with high-emotional impact," said Craig Lau, vice president,
information technology, NBC Olympics. "We're storytellers at heart, and by
facilitating fast, flexible media access, the MediaGrid storage systems with
ProMedia Carbon get right at the core of what we're trying to accomplish:
telling the stories of the athletes in these Olympic competitions."
During the 2012 London Olympic Games, incoming HD content from different venues
will be recorded by Sony XDcam XDS-PD1000 systems and transferred along with a
low-res proxy to a 288-TB MediaGrid at the International Broadcast Center in
London. At the same time, those full-resolution recordings will be replicated
and transferred by Harmonic's ProCast(TM) IP acceleration solution over a 10G
circuit to a 432-TB MediaGrid system at NBCUniversal's "30 Rock" facility in New
York City. In both London and New York, ProMedia Carbon will perform transcoding
of content on the MediaGrid systems.
The Avid Interplay MAM will give users on both sides of the Atlantic access not
only to proxy versions of newly captured content, which they can use to create
their shotlists, but also to extensive live logs and stats, scoring, and timing
information embedded as metadata. The resulting shotlists will be sent out to
distribution outlets or delivered to edit rooms when needed for broadcast.
In addition to the MediaGrid and ProMedia Carbon systems at the IBC and at 30
Rock, NBC Olympics will use 72-TB MediaGrid systems along with ProMedia Carbon
transcoders at the three largest venues - track and field, gymnastics, and
swimming - for storage and processing of content offloaded over a 1-Gbps
connection from EVS XT server systems. This model will enable NBC Olympics to
keep event footage readily available over the course of a competition.
Further information about the MediaGrid shared storage system and ProMedia
Carbon enterprise-class transcoding is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
# # #
About NBC Olympics
A division of the NBC Sports Group, NBC Olympics is responsible for producing,
programming, and promoting Olympic coverage across the networks of NBCUniversal.
It is renowned for its unsurpassed Olympic heritage, award-winning production,
and ability to aggregate the largest audiences in U.S. television history.
Having produced every Summer Olympics since Seoul in 1988 and every Winter
Olympics since Salt Lake City in 2002, the networks of NBCUniversal are
synonymous with the Games in the United States. In 2011, NBCUniversal acquired
the U.S. media rights on all platforms to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the
2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the 2020
Summer Olympics. At the conclusion of the 2020 Games, NBCUniversal will have
presented 17 total Olympic Games and 11 consecutive, the most for a U.S. media
company in both categories. NBC has won an unprecedented 91 Emmy Awards for its
Olympics coverage, as well as a prestigious Peabody Award for its presentation
of the Beijing Opening Ceremony in 2008, which USA Today said was "the best
overall Olympic experience ever provided by a U.S. network."
In addition to its unsurpassed heritage and award-winning production,
NBCUniversal is known for aggregating large Olympic audiences, as nine of the
top 11 most-watched U.S. television events of all time are Olympic Games
presented across the networks of NBCUniversal. The Beijing Summer Olympics rank
No. 1 with 215 million viewers.
About Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) provides infrastructure that powers the video
economy. The company enables content and service providers to efficiently
create, prepare, and deliver differentiated video services for television and
new media platforms. More information is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, including statements related to the anticipated
capabilities and benefits of Harmonic's Omneon MediaGrid and ProMedia Carbon
products. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not
materialize and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the
possibility that either of the products does not meet some or all of its
anticipated capabilities or provide some or all of its anticipated benefits,
such as fast, flexible media access to workflow, processing and delivering
content quickly, facilitating a fast, highly efficient workflow, immediate and
simultaneous access to content, ensuring fast turnaround, minimizing file
movement, improving workflow efficiency, high performance, management
simplicity, broad support for media applications, broad format support, high-
quality output, fast transcoding speed and enterprise-class scalability.
The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject
to other risks and uncertainties, such as those more fully described in
Harmonic's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec.31, 2011, its Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q and its Current Reports on Form 8-K. The forward-looking
statements in this press release are based on information available to Harmonic
as of the date hereof, and Harmonic disclaims any obligation to update any
forward-looking statements.
EDITOR'S NOTE - Product and company names used herein are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACTS:
Paulien Ruijssenaars Michael Newman, StreetConnect
Director of Public Relations for Harmonic Investor Relations for Harmonic
+1.408.490.7021 +1.408.542.2760
paulien.ruijssenaars@harmonicinc.com hlit@stct.com
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Source: Harmonic Inc via Thomson Reuters ONE
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