Shipping since August, the Harmonic ProMedia suite of software and appliances optimizes multiscreen and production video workflows, prompting our judges to rank it a powerful and versatile tool that will “provide operators the ability to build advanced delivery platforms in individual elements … or all at once.”
The suite of products performs a range of processing and streaming functions to enable high-quality video creation and delivery to the TV, PC, tablet, phone and other IP-connected devices. It also is integrated with leading digital rights management (DRM) systems, asset management systems and content distribution networks (CDNs), in addition to other Harmonic products.Its four components include:
- ProMedia Live – a real-time video processing and transcoding system with enhanced H.264 video codec technology, optimized for creating high-quality Internet video streams
- ProMedia Carbon (formerly Carbon Coder) – powered by Rhozet technology, Harmonic notes this file-based transcoder supports the largest array of acquisition, editing, broadcast, Web and mobile formats in the industry, scaling from a single instance to a large automated multimode transcoding farm
- ProMedia Package – a carrier-grade adaptive streaming preparation system for secure, high-value Internet video services, supporting numerous HTTP streaming protocol standards, and capable of packaging in multiple output formats from a single video source
- ProMedia Origin – an HTTP and RTMP streaming video server for originating multiscreen services in a scalable, easy-to-manage, carrier-class platform
