The ability to deliver multiple services to a variety of devices–including television sets, PCs and mobile devices– is becoming a necessity in order to provide viewers with a richer experience. At the same time, the architecture must be cost-effective, reliable and highly efficient. Harmonic's DiviCom® Electra™ 5000 Encoder is the world's first multi-codec, multi-service standard definition (SD) encoding platform, designed to address this ever-increasing demand for advanced video and audio services.
The Electra 5000's software-selectable encoding flexibility enables operators to deliver additional MPEG-2 channels within a given bandwidth, without compromising video quality. The Electra 5000 is ideal for operators who want to increase revenue per program and customer satisfaction by flexibly delivering multiple services to any device. The system also enables service providers to add more MPEG-2 channels with no disruption of service.
Backed by Harmonic's track record of innovation, system interoperability and exceptional support, the Electra 5000 an advanced MPEG-2 encoding platform for IPTV, satellite, cable or terrestrial applications available today.
Benefits of the Electra 5000
- Flexibility - By offering up to two SD channels and multiple low resolution channels with software-selectable compression options, operators can provide multiple, feature-rich services.
- Outstanding performance - The 1-RU Electra 5000 achieves the best possible video quality at the lowest bit-rates by combining state-of-the-art ENRGY™ integrated noise reduction and pre-processing with an extremely powerful and flexible compression engine.
- Support for all-IP infrastructure - The Electra platform’s native IP interface seamlessly integrates into scalable, low-cost IP networks.
- Network management - Harmonic's NMX Digital Service Manager™ simplifies mass configuring, monitoring and automated redundancy in both centralized and distributed architectures.
