[Satellite TODAY 02-28-13] Harmonic has announced it will showcase a comprehensive range of next-generation multiscreen production and delivery solutions at CABSAT in Dubai and TV Connect in London trade shows. The company’s solutions are designed to optimize multiscreen workflows and enable broadcasters and operators to prepare and deliver high-quality video content to any viewing device. 

   The company will demonstrate its HEVC high-performance encoding featuring the next-generation H.265 compression standard, which promises to improve OTT delivery and support a wide range of applications; MPEG-DASH streaming based on Harmonic’s compression technology; ProStream 9000 with ACE, a new high-density, real-time stream processor and transcoder that delivers increased performance and maximizes service uptime for broadcast and OTT services; Electra encoding platform that enables high-quality, low-bandwidth encoding featuring multiresolution, multistandard, multiprofile, multiservice, and multichannel capabilities for cable, satellite, IPTV, and terrestrial broadcast applications; and the ProMedia Suite, a family of integrated software applications that optimize multiscreen production and delivery workflows. The newest edition, ProMedia Xpress, delivers high-performance, GPU-free file-based transcoding and packaging on a standard IT computing infrastructure.

   Harmonic chose these two trade shows to be able to reach out to broadcasters and operators in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. "These geographic regions have demonstrated tremendous growth in recent times in the deployment of pay TV, and subsequently, value-added services such as multiscreen," Peter Alexander, senior vice president of marketing and chief marketing officer at Harmonic, said on a statement.