Lifetime delivers broadband content through a wide variety of outlets, including Apple’s iTunes store, Yahoo!, and its own website, www.myLifetime.com. The requirement to deliver an increasing amount of video to an increasing number of destinations prompted Lifetime to look for a comprehensive video transcoding solution that offers the scalability to keep pace with this growing demand. Rhozet Carbon Coder, deployed in a multi-node “farm” configuration, enables Lifetime to rapidly deliver a vast amount of video content in any format from broadcast to mobile.

“We produce hundreds of hours of content each month, and bringing this content to web customers is a key goal for us,” said Carl Charleson, Director of Enterprise Media Applications at Lifetime Entertainment. “We chose the Rhozet Carbon Coder transcoding farm because its performance, flexibility, expandability and cost-effectiveness make it possible for us to manage such a high volume of transcoding.”

“Transcoding for entertainment companies as large as Lifetime presents significant challenges,” said David Trescot, Vice President of the Rhozet business unit at Harmonic. “By providing our customers with the maximum flexibility through extensive format support and scalability, Carbon Coder effectively handles these challenges. We look forward to continuing our work with Lifetime as they expand their Internet offerings and increase their transcoding throughput.”

Harmonic’s Rhozet Carbon Coder is a universal transcoding application that facilitates the transfer of media between a variety of platforms, including acquisition, editing, playout, archive, the Internet and mobile devices. Carbon Coder can run as a stand-alone application or as part of a multi-node, fully-automated rendering farm. Carbon Coder provides high-performance, scalable and cost-effective transcoding for a broad range of business environments, from specialized studios to enterprise-scale installations.

About Lifetime Networks

LIFETIME is the leader in women's television and one of the top-rated basic cable television networks. A diverse, multi-media company, LIFETIME is committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and information programming, and advocating a wide range of issues affecting women and their families. LIFETIME Television, Lifetime Movie Network, Lifetime Real Women and Lifetime Digital (including myLifetime.com) are part of LIFETIME Entertainment Services, a 50/50 joint venture of The Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.

About Harmonic Inc.

Harmonic Inc. is a leading provider of versatile and high performance video solutions that enable service providers to efficiently deliver the next generation of broadcast and on-demand services including high definition, video-on-demand, network personal video recording and time-shifted TV. Cable, satellite, broadcast and telecom service providers can increase revenues and lower operational expenditures by using Harmonic’s digital video, broadband optical access and software solutions to offer consumers the compelling and personalized viewing experience that is driving the business models of the future.

Rhozet, a business unit of Harmonic Inc., is dedicated to providing accelerated high-quality media transcoding solutions. The Rhozet solutions are offered in both off-the-shelf and customized software configurations for the production and content delivery markets. For more information about Rhozet technology please visit www.rhozet.com.

Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with R&D, sales and system integration centers worldwide. The Company’s customers, including many of the world’s largest communications providers, deliver services in virtually every country. Visit www.harmonicinc.com for more information