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Harris
Corporation Delivers IPTV Headend to IRIS Networks
Other Topics:
IPTV Service Deployment,
IPTV Subscriber
Platform
Harris Corporation
February 29, 2008
RIS to Use Harris® NetVX™ Technology to Encode and Transport
Local Channels to Rural Telcos for IPTV Delivery to Consumers
Cincinnati, OH -- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international
communications and information technology company, today announced
that IRIS Networks of Nashville has installed a Harris® IPTV headend
featuring NetVX™ MPEG-4/H.264 video encoding for the delivery of
standard and high-definition terrestrial TV channels to rural
independent telecommunications companies. |
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IRIS Networks is a member-owned organization comprising 11
independent telephone companies in Tennessee, southern Kentucky and
Virginia. The organization’s Nashville point-of-presence (POP)
serves as a centralized distribution point for the delivery of 16
channels of local off-air station programming from Nashville and
Knoxville, Tennessee, to participating telecommunications companies,
all of which provide TV services to rural areas underserved by
traditional cable TV service providers.
The Harris® IPTV headend installed at IRIS Networks’ POP in
Nashville includes Harris® Videotek® DDM-800 ATSC demodulators and
NetVX™ MPEG-2 decoders to receive and decode the TV signals from
off-air antennas; and NetVX™ ENC-A21 MPEG-4/H.264 encoders to
compress and transport the multiple standard and high-definition TV
channels over a fiber-based IP backbone to the rural telephone
companies that deliver the channels to subscribers at home and
elsewhere.
"The ability to offer television service to existing and potential
subscribers is extremely important for local and regional
independent telecommunications companies to compete against larger
cable and satellite service providers" said Peter De Bono, director
of engineering for IRIS Networks. "The Harris® IPTV headend solution
provides a technically superior yet cost-effective solution that
allows us to get up and running quickly with local TV services to
ultimately create a more attractive consumer product. The highly
integrated architecture supports our IPTV initiative today with
lower total cost of ownership and provides a scalable platform to
build on in the future"
Harris® NetVX™ encoders and decoders, and Videotek® demodulators are
among the wide range of Harris products that optimize the IPTV
headend delivery workflows of today’s Telco TV and triple play
operations for IPTV service providers. Harris leverages decades of
broadcasting experience to power IPTV headends that provide better
quality TV, implement better business models, and provide better
media distribution operations.
Harris Broadcast Communications provides products, systems, and
services that deliver interoperable workflow solutions that span the
entire broadcast delivery chain. The Harris ONE approach brings
together highly integrated and cost-effective products that are
ideal for emerging media business models and for customers upgrading
media operations to digital and high-definition services. |
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