Stream Processing Upgrade
Product name: ProStream 1000 with DiviTrackMX Company: Harmonic Features/what it does: DiviTrackMX statistical multiplexing capabilities added to the company’s ProStream 1000 stream processing platform; up to 64 compressed MPEG-2 VBR or CBR services can be processed and 16 DiviTrackMX pools supported in 1 RU; dynamically adjusts bandwidth allocated to each channel; bit-rate efficiency is improved by 10 to 15 percent compared to CBR encoding; designed for cable and other operators who receive content from satellite or over-the-air feeds and then turn around these digital services for distribution on pay TV networks; can be configured to provide digital video stream processing functions including the integrated multiplexing, scrambling, descrambling, re-encoding and single frequency network (SFN) transmission over IP. For more information: www.harmonicinc.com