Las Vegas -- April 12, 2010 -- NAB 2010 Booth #SU7213 -- Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced the Rhozet™ Workflow System (WFS), a new task-based workflow engine for automated management of the video asset transformation process. WFS improves scalability, efficiency and reliability for media companies' most demanding transcoding needs with an open and distributed workflow. The new Rhozet WFS supports Harmonic's Rhozet Quality Control System (QCS) to incorporate file-based quality testing and automated compliance as part of the transcoding process. WFS and QCS will be showcased at Harmonic's booth #SU7213 during NAB 2010 in Las Vegas.

WFS manages large-scale networks of Carbon Coder™ transcoder nodes in a distributed "farm" configuration. The distributed nature of WFS allows for automated processing of high-volume transcoding tasks, failover support, job distribution, job prioritization, dynamic load balancing, file transfer, status monitoring, and job notification.

For even greater flexibility, WFS users can create comprehensive workflows that incorporate a variety of processing tasks and conditional behaviors tailored to meet their specific requirements. Additionally, with its extensive APIs and software developer kit (SDK), WFS can manage the complete video asset transformation process by integrating third-party applications and other Harmonic video processing solutions.

For advanced quality control capabilities, Rhozet QCS can be seamlessly added into the WFS and Carbon Coder transcoding architecture to significantly reduce the amount of manual intervention required to guarantee high quality output. Operators can use groundbreaking quality control features, configured to their specific needs, with an interactive tool for visual verification of output. The system analyzes all assets during the transcoding workflow to help identify possibly problematic files before, during and after the transcode process. QCS can be set to check a wide variety of video and audio characteristics, including black detection, silence detection, audio levels, letterboxing, blockiness, bit-rate, duration and transport stream compliance.

Harmonic offers a comprehensive and market-leading range of solutions for real-time or on-demand video ingest, transformation, distribution and delivery to any device. Harmonic's transcoding solutions facilitate the creation of multi-format video for Internet, mobile and broadcast applications and are used by leading media companies including Ascent Media Group, British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB), Lifetime Networks, MTV, NBC, YouTube and Yahoo!

The Rhozet family of products includes Carbon Coder, WFS, QCS, Carbon Server™ and the ProStream™ 5000 offline transcoder. The full range of Rhozet transcoding solutions will be on display in Harmonic's booth #SU7213 at NAB 2010, April 12-15 in Las Vegas.

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Las Vegas -- April 12, 2010 -- NAB 2010 Booth #SU7213 -- Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that SKY Brasil, Brazil's largest high-definition (HD) pay-TV service provider in Latin America with approximately two million subscribers, has expanded its HDTV service based on Harmonic's market-leading Electra® 8000 multi-channel universal encoder. SKY Brasil launched its HDTV service last year using Harmonic's award-winning MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) digital video delivery solutions, including the Electra 7000 encoder, ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform with DiviTrackIP™ statistical multiplexing, and NMX Digital Service Manager™. With the deployment of the Electra 8000 compression platform, SKY Brasil has gained additional bandwidth efficiency and expanded its HD services.

Harmonic's Electra 8000 AVC encoder supports SD and HD, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC, as well as integrated statistical multiplexing, broadcast quality up/down-conversion and other unique features such as Jünger Level Magic™ automatic audio leveling adjustment. Electra 8000's groundbreaking architecture provides SKY Brasil with a state-of-the-art, simultaneous dual-output (HD/SD) encoder in a single rack unit, which facilitates the launch of new value-added video services.

"We continue to choose Harmonic to improve and power our SKY HDTV offerings simply because the company continues to provide the highest quality, most cost-effective, and feature-rich HD video solutions in the industry," said Luis Otavio Marchezetti, Director of Engineering for SKY Brasil. "Harmonic's Electra 8000 compression platform solution offers excellent video quality and greater bandwidth efficiency for our new HD services."

"The Electra 8000 and the other award-winning Harmonic MPEG-4 encoding, stream processing and network management systems deployed by SKY Brasil provide a reliable, comprehensive solution to power SKY's growing HD service," said Richard Phelps, Vice President of Sales for the Caribbean and Latin America at Harmonic Inc.

Leveraging Harmonic's expertise and market leadership, the Electra 8000 is the most advanced and feature-rich encoding platform for cable, satellite, IPTV or broadcast applications available today. Harmonic's comprehensive range of video delivery solutions will be showcased at NAB 2010 in Las Vegas, booth #SU7213, April 12-15.

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IPTV Evangelist (ipTVe) is the ultimate guide to the people and the companies that are defining the red-hot iTV and IPTV markets. Founded by streaming video pioneer Gilbert B. Hammer, IPTV Evangelist combines the latest iTV and IPTV news and analysis with interviews with key players. As the title of the site implies, Gilbert is passionate about the space, which he views as the next-generation for online and mobile entertainment for its creative integration of new and improved forms of communication, storytelling and community.

RICHARDSON, Texas - April 12, 2010 - RipCode, Inc., the leader in transactional transcoding, announced today its newest product, the TransAct Transcoder V6 can intercept Adobe Flash-based file or live video requests and convert them to a container, video codec, and audio codec accepted by Apple Inc.'s new iPad - all transparently to the end user device and without the need for any pre-transcoding or device-based client.

The iPad is poised to further accelerate and expand the mobile video device market just as the iPhone has over the last several years. However, one of its noted shortcomings has been Apple's lack of support for Flash video playback, given the dominant position of Flash in professionally generated entertainment, sports and news content. HTML5 has been purported to address this dilemma by introducing Apple device applications that are simply 'thin clients' communicating back to a web site hosting and subsequently delivering Flash files without a device-based player, but HTML5 is not yet widely adopted. RipCode's Transactional Transcoding platform enables an alternate and immediate solution to this issue, opening up video content to users without requiring the content hoster to move to HTML5 or pre-transcode entire video libraries from Flash to an iPad-accepted container format. By transcoding the content 'in the cloud', it is essentially analogous to a network-based Flash to MP4 or MPEG-TS video adaption layer.

RipCode's V6 transcoding appliance is equipped with industry-leading transcoding flexibility (file-to-file, file-to-stream, stream-to-stream, stream-to-file, and RipCode's On-Demand Transcoding), codec and container flexibility, concurrency, video processing functions, and resolutions ranging from QVGA to 1080i/p. Further, the V6 supports a rich suite of integrated video delivery options including QuickTime, MP4 Progressive Download, Apple's MPEG-TS Adaptive Progressive Download for file-based and live content, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and RTSP. It is easily integrated - as hardware or software - into any content hosting/delivery operation given its Linux/Intel processing core. Working in conjunction with RipCode's Commander and Detector, content requests from an iPad is automatically detected, which launches an intelligent content transcoding workflow that re-encodes a Flash file to one of the aforementioned iPad-accepted formats, and then delivers either via MP4 Progressive Download or Apple's MPEG-TS Adaptive Progressive Download.

RipCode will be demonstrating this capability for both live and video on demand applications at NAB 2010 this week in Las Vegas. Please access http://www.ripcode.com/nab/ to arrange an appointment to visit our suite at the Hilton, adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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IPTV Evangelist (ipTVe) is the ultimate guide to the people and the companies that are defining the red-hot iTV and IPTV markets. Founded by streaming video pioneer Gilbert B. Hammer, IPTV Evangelist combines the latest iTV and IPTV news and analysis with interviews with key players. As the title of the site implies, Gilbert is passionate about the space, which he views as the next-generation for online and mobile entertainment for its creative integration of new and improved forms of communication, storytelling and community.

Sunnyvale, Calif. -- April 5, 2010 -- At NAB 2010 booth #SU7213 in Las Vegas from April 12-15, Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) will showcase its comprehensive and market-leading portfolio of solutions for broadcast and on-demand video delivery. Latest generation technologies on display will include an impressive 3D demonstration, a new control and management system for Harmonic's contribution and distribution solution, and a live ATSC Mobile DTV (ATSC M/H) broadcast service demonstration. In addition, the company will introduce the Rhozet™ Workflow System (WFS) for universal media transcoding, and feature Harmonic's MediaPrism™ solution for converged "TV Anywhere" services.

"Harmonic offers the industry's broadest set of solutions for live and on-demand video delivery to any device," said Yaniv Ben-Shushan, Product Marketing Manager at Harmonic Inc. "At NAB this year, we are showcasing advanced, industry-leading technologies including ATSC M/H transcoding for mobile broadcast services and the latest frame-compatible 3D compression solution. By further expanding our solution set for stream processing, transcoding, contribution and distribution, we are able to offer service providers unique and integrated solutions that further enhance scalability, improve performance and ease management of their video services."

About IPTV Evangelist

IPTV Evangelist (ipTVe) is the ultimate guide to the people and the companies that are defining the red-hot iTV and IPTV markets. Founded by streaming video pioneer Gilbert B. Hammer, IPTV Evangelist combines the latest iTV and IPTV news and analysis with interviews with key players. As the title of the site implies, Gilbert is passionate about the space, which he views as the next-generation for online and mobile entertainment for its creative integration of new and improved forms of communication, storytelling and community.