Solutions

Cable Solutions

For nearly two decades, Harmonic has been a technology innovator and the market leader in video processing, edge and access solutions for cable service providers. Harmonic has also been at the forefront of the industry in incorporating the advantages of IP technology for cable headends and IP transport to the edge, and is the headend provider for most of the world’s top tier telco IPTV services. Leveraging this expertise in both the cable and telco markets, Harmonic provides operators with the most complete, scalable and flexible video delivery platform for delivery of any video service. Harmonic offers a comprehensive range of industry-leading digital video solutions for a variety of cable services and applications including broadcast, on-demand, switched digital video (SDV) and emerging IPTV over cable (modular CMTS/DOCSIS 3.0/direct-to-edge) architectures. In the access network, Harmonic enables operators to increase capacity with network segmentation, fiber-deep architectures and bandwidth extension to 1 GHz. These solutions are in use today by leading cable operators around the world—solving the bandwidth crunch and enabling MSOs to provide a greater range of advanced, competitive and revenue-generating services.

Universal EdgeQAM

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.