Orange France chooses Harmonic for combined delivery of IPTV and OTT services

Harmonic's Electra platform allows Orange in France to offer its subscribers a wide channel offering, including 160 SD channels and 30 HD channels for OTT and 126 SD channels and 40 HD channels for IPTV.

Orange, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators, has updated its IPTV and OTT video delivery architecture with a live encoding and transcoding platform from Harmonic. At the heart of the workflow is Harmonic's Electra software-based system, which offers Orange a unified solution for the delivery of IPTV and OTT to approximately 6.6 million subscribers in France, streamlining operations and giving the operator the flexibility to reuse system capacity as your needs evolve over time.

Using Harmonic's video delivery solution, Orange can offer its subscribers a wide channel offering, including 160 SD channels and 30 HD channels for OTT and 126 SD channels and 40 HD channels for IPTV.

Pay-TV operators will generate $7 billion from delivering live and linear OTT services in mature markets in 2021, according to ABI Research, compared to just over $1 billion today. With Harmonic's Electra converged workflows, Orange can increase its OTT revenue while still fueling its traditional IPTV business. By supporting next-generation codecs such as HEVC and offering binning capabilities, Harmonic's solutions will also enable Orange to offer higher video resolution in the future, up to UHD HDR, at low bit rates.

Ian Graham, vice president of sales, EMEA and LATAM at Harmonic, said: “Harmonic's OTT innovation is unmatched by recent achievements in bandwidth optimization, improved video quality and low latency across all delivery platforms. . Adopting Harmonic’s all-software multimedia processing portfolio helps customers like Orange stay at the forefront of video format and encoding evolutions as well as deploy new services with very fast time to market.”

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