Harmonic to Offer Transcoding as a Service

Harmonic (NASDAQ:HLIT) has teamed up with Encoding.com, a video transcoding service, to offer a cloud-based transcoding service. Available as either a pure cloud-based or integrated cloud-burst offering, the new service is intended to provide content creators, service providers, and media professionals with cloud capacity for converting video content into virtually any standard media format, including HEVC, utilizing a pay-per-use business model.

Designed for existing Harmonic customers utilizing ProMedia Carbon with a WFS file-based workflow engine, the cloud-burst service is designed to enable users to address fluctuating transcoding volume requirements without requiring additional infrastructure equipment. Users can divert workloads to a watch folder that is routed to the Encoding.com cloud to reduce content turnaround time from source to target.