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United States : HARMONIC helps TALKTALK cost-effectively provide high quality live and VOD content and expand IPTV service offering [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The global leader in video delivery infrastructure, Harmonic, has announced that TalkTalk, a major telecommunications provider in Britain, has selected a combined headend solution from the company to help provide its IPTV services. Harmonic's Electra(TM) 9200 universal multiservice encoder and ProStream(R) 9100 with ACE(R) stream processor and transcoder, which feature a highly dense and scalable architecture allows TalkTalk to cost-efficiently provide superior live and VOD content and an expanded channel lineup to subscribers' set-top boxes. Broadcast systems team leader at TalkTalk Group, Naresh Raj, said : "YouView from TalkTalk is Britain's fastest growing TV service. To deliver our growing range of content to more than a million subscribers, we needed an IPTV headend solution that would increase our encoding efficiency and support future growth. Harmonic's integrated video processing solutions provide outstanding video quality while lowering our capital and operating expenses through density and scalability. Relying on a unified headend from Harmonic, we have the flexibility to support additional subscribers and add more channels as our market requirements change." Vice president of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Harmonic, Ian Graham, added : "Harmonic is the leading global provider of IPTV headends. Our IPTV headend solutions offer the density, scalability, and advanced compression technology that will allow TalkTalk to easily meet the growing subscriber expectation for more content and better video quality (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |