Orange Chooses Harmonic for Combined
IPTV and OTT Service Delivery
Harmonic
(NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery technology and
services, today announced that Orange, one of the world's leading
telecommunications operators, has upgraded its IPTV and OTT video
delivery architecture with a Harmonic live encoding and transcoding
platform. At the heart of the workflow is Harmonic's Electraâ„¢
software-based system, which offers Orange a unified solution for both
IPTV and OTT delivery to approximately 6.6 million subscribers in
France, streamlining operations and providing the operator with the
flexibility to reuse system capacity as its needs evolve over time.
Using Harmonic's video delivery solution, Orange is able to provide its
subscribers a wide channel offering, including 160 SD and 30 HD channels
for OTT and 126 SD and 40 HD channels for IPTV.
Pay-TV operators will generate $7 billion from distributing live, linear OTT services in mature markets by 2021, according to ABI Research,
compared with just over $1 billion today. Using Harmonic's Electra
convergent workflows, Orange can grow its OTT revenues while still
powering its traditional IPTV business. By supporting next-generation
codecs like HEVC and offering clustering capabilities, Harmonic's
solutions will also enable Orange to deliver higher video resolution in
the future, up to UHD HDR, at low bit rates.
"Harmonic's
OTT innovation is unmatched with recent achievements in bandwidth
optimization, improved video quality and low latency across all delivery
platforms," said Ian Graham, vice president of sales, EMEA and LATAM at
Harmonic. "Adopting Harmonic's all-software media processing portfolio
helps customers like Orange stay on top of video format and codec
evolutions and launch new services with a quick time to market."
Source: Harmonic media announcement