Edge & Access

In the last eight years, Harmonic has been involved as the edgeQAM solution provider for more than 50% of the VOD deployments worldwide. Harmonic edgeQAMs are known for their reliability, scalability and ease of operation. Harmonic leverages its expertise to resolve reliability, scalability and expandability issues, providing a highly scalable content ingest platform and scalable storage and streaming solution. Harmonic’s virtualized server solution introduces a new class of on-demand platform, addressing both CAPEX and OPEX challenges.

At the heart of all of these applications and services is the universal edgeQAM. Harmonic pioneered video-on-demand network architectures, making VOD a reality with the world’s first multi-function edgeQAM, the Narrowcast Services Gateway™ (NSG™). Harmonic continues to lead the industry in this space, today powering more than 2.5 million VOD streams, serving over 50 million homes, and making it possible to support a range of new architectures such as SDV and 3:1 HD statistical multiplexing to enhance bandwidth efficiency. Harmonic’s latest generation NSG 9000 universal edgeQAM is a high density (72 QAM in 2-RU) system that offers the industry’s best RF performance and serves as a highly integrated digital video gateway, capable of performing multiplexing, scrambling, QAM modulation, encryption and RF upconversion for on-demand content streamed over an IP network. The NSG is the solution of choice for broadcast, on-demand, SDV and modular CMTS. It is also DOCSIS 3.0 ready and designed to support direct-to-edge applications.