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jediphish
09-05-07, 09:26 AM
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sep 05, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Harmonic Inc. (HLIT, Trade ) today announced that DIRECTV, Inc. (DTV, Trade ) the world's largest direct-to-home (DTH) satellite operator with more than 16.3 million subscribers, has deployed Harmonic's market-leading DiviCom(R) Electra 7000 high definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoders for its national HD channel expansion. The solution implemented at DIRECTV for the new HD services also included Harmonic's market-leading ProStream(TM) 1000 stream processing platform with DiviTrackIP(TM) distributed statistical multiplexing, further enhancing bandwidth efficiency and flexibility, and Harmonic's versatile NMX Digital Service Manager(TM).

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Earl Bonovich
09-05-07, 09:27 AM
He clipped you by a few minutes...
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=97370