Jordan Media City selects Harmonic technology


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Rebecca Hawkes

| 14 March 2016




Harmonic’s headend technology has been selected by Jordan Media City (JMC) to support its direct-to-home (DTH) satellite transmissions across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.



The scalable video infrastructure features DVB-S2, MPEG-4 AVC and statistical multiplexing technologies to increase bandwidth efficiency, improve video quality and decrease operating expenses, the company claims.

“Video quality is a key differentiator for media companies. Yet, the prospect of delivering better video quality using less bandwidth, is only achievable through the support of a trusted video infrastructure provider,” said Hani Al-Khararbeh, teleport manager, Jordan Media City.

“Through broad support of industry standards and formats, as well as advanced capabilities like variable bitrate encoding and statistical multiplexing, the new headend enables us to deliver excellent video quality at low bit rates.”

Harmonics’ ProView integrated receiver decoders, Electra X2 advanced media processors, ProStream 9100 with ACE stream processors and transcoders and NMX Digital Service Manager will combine to help manage JMC’s DTH workflow, from channel acquisition to reception, descrambloing, encoding, transcoding, multiplexing and scrambling.

Through the unified headend solution, JMC can support up to 100 services per statistically multiplexed pool, 14 pools per platform, and three pools within a single transport stream in order to increase bandwidth efficiency.

“JMC is one of the largest media hubs in the Middle East, with the ability to playout and uplink television channels from all over the world. As new SD and HD channels are added to the JMC lineup in the future, bandwidth efficiency will be essential,” said Ian Graham, vice president of sales for EMEA, Harmonic.

JMC transmissions currently deliver 378 DTH satellite TV and 52 radio channels to viewers in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.