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To: John Rieman who wrote (47958)	12/19/1999 1:00:00 AM
From: Cameron Lang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

A glimpse of Harmonic/Divi "synergy"... Full article: multichannel.com Excerpt: Another approach to increasing bandwidth efficiency that will surely get attention in the near future involves the use of signal-processing technology to dynamically adjust the allocations of bit streams to specific applications. Here, the idea is to reduce the bandwidth requirement for the application, rather than to assign more bandwidth to it, Ley said. "You're going to see the use of digital processing in MPEG [Moving Picture Expert Group] and other formats pushed further into the network with continuing gains in the amount of functions you can integrate onto chips," he added. Ley declined to discuss the idea further, suggesting that he didn't want to give away Harmonic's game plan. But with Harmonic's soon-to-be-concluded acquisition of digital-encoding specialist DiviCom Inc., it's clear that the vendor is looking at ways to lower the volume of bits required to transport MPEG and other signals at a prescribed level of quality.