Swisscom Expands With HarmonicSwisscom Expands With Harmonic

Swisscom expands web and mobile TV services with Harmonic scalable transcoding solution

April 11, 2012

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT), a global leader in video infrastructure solutions, today announced that Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecom provider, has chosen Harmonic's ProMedia™ Live real-time multiscreen transcoding platform and NMX Digital Service Manager™ to provide high-definition video streams for its expanded Web TV and mobile TV services, enabling Swisscom to significantly increase the number of live channels it delivers, with excellent video quality.

"Over the last two years, our Web and mobile subscribers more than tripled to beyond 300,000, and our IPTV subscribers skyrocketed to 600,000 users — compelling us to adopt a high-performance solution to handle the increased volume of streaming video," said Volker Dietzel, head of TV and Portal Development at Swisscom Switzerland Ltd. "Harmonic's scalable solution allows us to keep pace cost-effectively with the explosive growth in subscriber numbers and streaming sessions by delivering more high-quality live channels to mobile viewing devices than any competitor in our market."

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