Video delivery infrastructure provider, Harmonic, Wednesday announced that Indonesian cable TV operator PT Link Net, a subsidiary of First Net, has deployed a comprehensive suite of Harmonic solutions to power its First Media branded pay-TV and video-on-demand (VOD) platform, as well as its new OTT multiscreen service, the First Media Go "TV Anywhere" service.
According to Harmonic, the video infrastructure solutions enable Link Net's First Media to deliver more than 90 live TV channels, 30 catch-up TV channels, and a wide array of VOD options to its subscribers on every screen, with industry-leading video quality at low bit rates.
For its First Media pay-TV services, Link Net has combined the new video infrastructure solutions with the existing Harmonic ProView™ 7100 integrated receiver-decoder, for satellite reception. For its First Media Go services, First Media is utilizing Harmonic's ProMedia® Live real-time multiscreen transcoder and its other solutions - ProMedia Carbon file-based transcoder, ProMedia Origin packager, streaming video server and MediaGrid shared storage system. The ProMedia Origin server is integrated with the Harmonic MediaGrid shared storage system to provide fast and reliable central storage for catch-up TV and VOD content.
As part of a highly scalable, end-to-end multiscreen video delivery workflow at First Media, Harmonic's ProMedia family performs a variety of essential operations, including live transcoding and packaging, file-based transcoding and origin streaming. ProMedia dramatically simplifies OTT multiscreen delivery by enabling First Media to deliver content in formats required by all major devices and mobile operating systems.
Desmond Poon, CTO, Link Net-First Media
Consumers today need flexibility, and we want to provide them with the highest quality 'TV Anywhere' experience possible. With broad format support, scalability and bandwidth efficiency, Harmonic's video infrastructure solutions allow us to deliver high-quality live, VOD and time-shift TV on every screen, including TVs, PCs, smartphones and tablets.
Dario Choi, Regional VP, Sales, Asia-Pacific, Harmonic
As a longtime Harmonic customer, Link Net-First Media has first-hand experience with the compression expertise and world-class quality that our video infrastructure solutions provide. Leveraging the flexibility, scalability and reliability of an integrated infrastructure solution from Harmonic, Link Net-First Media can continue to expand its service offerings, providing customers with more channels, better video quality and advanced features such as catch-up TV on any screen.
