SKY PerfecTV! Goes HD With Harris H-Class(TM) D-Series(TM) Playout Automation Application
June 29 2006 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Fully Automated System Capable of Rapid Expansion SINGAPORE, June
29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) today
announced a major contract with SKY PerfecTV!, Japan, to supply and
install an HD version of the Harris H-Class(TM) D-Series(TM)
Playout Automation application and H-Class(TM) Media Ingest
application for the SKY PerfecTV! on-air operation. The order was
placed through the Harris Japanese distributor, ITOCHU Cable
Systems Corp., a leading systems integrator in Japanese cable TV,
broadband and broadcast media. SKY PerfecTV! is one of Japan's
leading direct-to-home satellite services with over three million
viewers, giving it a more than 35-percent share of the Japanese pay
TV market. SKY PerfecTV! initially purchased the D-Series Playout
Automation solution to control six playout channels, a number of
different routing systems, Sony FlexiCarts, Pinnacle servers,
subtitling and multiple keying levels using Miranda equipment.
Based on the system's reliability, SKY PerfecTV! carried out
further technical reviews that led to the current system expansion.
A key feature of the D-Series Playout Automation solution is its
scalability, which allows the expansion of the number of channels
under its control to be up into the hundreds, scaling as a
broadcaster's requirements grow. The HD system installed was the
first D-Series(TM) version 4.0 (running on the Linux platform) in
the world. The system sits independently of the existing 15 SD
channels, runs Omneon servers for HD encoding and a Front Porch
DIVA archiving system. The system provides redundancy from ground
level up to the satellite. "We designed an automation solution for
SKY PerfecTV! in such a way that if it were to lose any part of the
architecture on either side -- from satellite to transmission -- it
would have a fully mirrored path allowing the functioning side to
take all the failed channels and run without disruption," explains
Joe Khodeir, president of Harris Broadcast Communications Asia
Pacific operations. "This gives SKY PerfecTV! redundancy across
their whole bandwidth, which also allows us to isolate any issue
for maintenance. All involved in the SKY PerfecTV! project are
delighted with the performance and development of the D- Series
Playout Automation solution." About Harris Corporation Harris is an
international communications and information technology company
serving government and commercial markets in more than 150
countries. With headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
annual sales of over $3 billion and more than 13,000 employees --
including 5,500 engineers and scientists -- dedicated to the
development of best-in-class assured communications(TM) products,
systems, and services. The company's operating divisions serve
markets for government communications, RF communications, broadcast
communications, and microwave communications. Additional
information about Harris Corporation is available at
http://www.harris.com/ . DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT:
Salvatore T. Di Muccio, Well Above, +011-61-412-649964, or , for
Harris Web site: http://www.harris.com/
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