Harris Corporation Forms New Broadcast Unit to Address U.S. Government's Growing Need for Rich Media Management Solutions
February 09 2007 - 12:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation
(NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information
technology company, has established a new Government Solutions Unit
within its Broadcast Communications Division to address the rapidly
growing requirement for broadcast and rich media management
solutions within the public safety, Department of Defense, federal
agency, and state and municipal government markets. "Government
organizations today have large appetites for ingesting, storing,
analyzing and retrieving large quantities of digital video, audio
and visual content," said Tim Thorsteinson, president of the Harris
Broadcast Communications Division. "Our new Government Solutions
Unit is uniquely qualified to address these organizations'
requirements to move from an intensely manual and analog media
environment, to one that is streamlined, digital and networked."
Demonstrating its capability in this market, Harris recently
deployed its rich media management solutions at military training
bases to improve military readiness for new soldiers. Harris
Corporation's H-Class(TM) solution -- consisting of the H-Class(TM)
Digital Asset Management, H-Class(TM) Intelligent Transport and
NetVX(TM) applications interoperating through the H- Class(TM)
Content Delivery Platform -- is being used to collect, store,
manage and analyze multimedia information from more than 60
different sources of video and hundreds of audio feeds for
after-training reviews. "We're proud to play a role in modernizing
the multimedia infrastructures of today's military bases and
federal agencies, while continuing to support traditional broadcast
requirements for government news gathering organizations," said
Brian Cabeceiras, vice president, strategic marketing and
technology for Harris Broadcast Communications Division. "We
recognize that our commercial, rich-media management systems have
applications beyond the federal level, and can be applied to
homeland security for municipal governments and law enforcement
agencies." Along with powerful media management tools, the
company's Government Solutions Unit also offers customers the
broadest range of infrastructure, video server, editing and test
and measurement products to create, distribute and deliver media --
delivering a comprehensive portfolio of point products, platforms
and workflow solutions to help meet potential government
applications. The new Government Solutions Unit will be based in
Mason, Ohio, and headed by John Delay, director, strategic
management, and Lucius Stone, director of sales. "The Harris
Broadcast Communications Division is not a newcomer to the
government market, having developed the acclaimed Iraqi News Media
Network and the Afghanistan Broadcast Network, as well as voice
over IP solutions for various U.S. government programs," said
Delay. "The additional focus on government customers will allow us
to better anticipate their needs and develop products that will
help them to exploit commercial off-the-shelf tools with the latest
in rich media management techniques." About Harris Corporation
Harris Corporation understands the criticality of video, audio and
imagery analysis for ground operations, command and control, and
homeland security. Providing the most comprehensive multimedia
platform available today, Harris enables federal agencies and the
U.S. military (including government broadcasting organizations) to
efficiently acquire, manage and distribute visual and audio
information from a multitude of formats and networks for analysis,
reporting and information-sharing purposes. Harris is an
international communications and information technology company
serving government and commercial markets in more than 150
countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
annual sales of about $4 billion and more than 14,000 employees - -
including more than 6,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is
dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications(TM)
products, systems, and services for global markets, including
government communications, RF communications, broadcast
communications, and wireless transmission network solutions.
Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at
http://www.harris.com/ DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT:
Susan Sheppard, Consultant, Harris BCD-Government Market,
+1-585-624-7969, or ; or Laura Whitaker, Vice President,
Communications, Harris Broadcast Communications Division,
+1-408-782-1201, or Web site: http://www.harris.com/
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