Harmonic today announced that Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecom provider, has selected Harmonic's ProStream real-time multi-screen transcoder to enable Swisscom's new WebTV and MobileTV service, encompassing more than 30 channels delivered in multiple formats for viewing on a wide variety of devices.
The ProStream 4000 is a key component of Harmonic's MediaPrism Convergence Suite for multi-screen video delivery, and makes it possible for Swisscom to seamlessly transcode both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) broadcast video content to mobile and Internet formats. Its software-based all-IP architecture can be integrated into an existing IP headend, and provides a field-upgradeable codec library.
"Harmonic offered us a compelling convergence solution and superior technology roadmap for enabling the delivery of TV to our mobile customers," said Volker Dietzel Head of TV & Portal Development at Swisscom Switzerland Ltd. "We have been pleased with the performance, flexibility and scalability of the ProStream 4000 transcoder for the extension of our TV proposition."
"Over the years Swisscom has been a pioneering operator using the latest technologies to bring new and exciting services to their subscribers. The new Swisscom TV service represents a great step forward in offering innovative and high quality Internet and mobile video," said Thierry Fautier, Senior Director of Convergence Solutions at Harmonic. "We are working closely with leading operators like Swisscom to make the vision of 'anytime, anywhere' video a reality. The ProStream 4000 was designed specifically to support mobile and web video applications, and as part of the MediaPrism convergence suite, can be used as part of a complete and integrated TV, PC and mobile delivery architecture."