Harmonic Powers New Digital TV Service in Romania

Digital Cable Systems Deploys Harmonic’s Market-Leading Digital Video and Edge Processing Solutions for AKTA TV Service

COLOGNE, GERMANY — ANGA Cable Stand #H39 — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that Digital Cable Systems (DCS), Romania’s third largest cable and direct-to-home (DTH) satellite service provider, has deployed Harmonic’s market-leading digital video delivery solutions to power its new AKTA TV digital service. Harmonic’s fully integrated IP-based solutions enable DCS to reduce capital and operating expenditures by using a national IP transport backbone to deliver high quality digital TV services to remote headends across the country.

DCS has deployed Harmonic’s market-leading ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform for re-encoding, multiplexing and scrambling, bNSG™ 9000 edgeQAMs for reliable edge processing, and NMX Digital Service Manager™ to manage the complete video network infrastructure. DCS, an existing Harmonic customer, is located in Bucharest and launched the new 80-channel AKTA TV digital service in March 2010.

“Harmonic’s advanced digital video delivery solutions allow us to provide high quality triple-play services to subscribers throughout Romania, particularly improving the service available in rural areas,” said Dinu Malacopol, CEO of Digital Cable Systems. “With this upgrade, we have invested in a state-of-the-art, fully integrated IP-based infrastructure that can seamlessly and cost-effectively help us realize the ambitious goals we set for this new digital cable service.”

“Harmonic’s scalable IP-based digital video delivery solutions allow DCS to easily expand the service as new regional headends are deployed throughout Romania, by simply adding new edge sites,” said Gil Katz, Senior Director of Cable Solutions for Harmonic Inc. “With the new AKTA TV digital service, DCS has transformed its cable service offering. Harmonic’s solution set provides DCS with greater flexibility, outstanding value, and a seamless upgrade path to continued, best-in-class service delivery.”

Cellphone, an authorized Harmonic reseller in Romania, was a key member of this project and provided additional technology integration and customer support services.

Harmonic’s award-winning video stream processing, edge and HFC access systems are deployed by cable operators around the world to power their digital TV services. The comprehensive portfolio of Harmonic cable solutions will be on display at ANGA Cable 2010, stand #H39, taking place in Cologne, Germany from May 4-6.