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To: Boplicity who wrote (12346)	2/18/2004 1:49:08 PM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 13815

Harmonic Inc. (HLIT), founded in 1988, is a leading provider of broadband optical networking, digital video, and IP delivery systems to cable, satellite, telecom, broadcast and wireless network operators. Their scalable, open standards-based solutions from the headend through the “last mile” enables operators to develop new revenue sources and a competitive advantage by offering powerful interactive video, voice and data services such as video-on-demand, high definition digital television, telephony and Internet access. Harmonic’s mission is to be the strategic broadband infrastructure solutions partner to communications service providers by delivering the architectures, products, services needed to accelerate business growth and maximize their share of an increasingly competitive marketplace. Harmonic has distinguished itself by introducing innovative products ranging from the industry’s first highly integrated digital video encoder to the world’s first node-based tunable digital DWDM return path transmitter. Harmonic’s optical networking product line supports the delivery of interactive services in networks originally designed for one-way transmission. Their fiber optic systems permit cable operators to efficiently scale the capacity and extend the reach of their network. Harmonic’s broadband networking systems enable architectures that provide the reliability, access, and speed critical to interactive broadband services like high-speed Internet access, telephony, and video-on-demand. Harmonic’s fiber optic products include forward and return path DWDM transmission systems, environmentally hardened Ethernet switches, optical nodes and data gateways. Harmonic develops standards-based products that effectively multiply the delivery capacity of existing network infrastructures. Products include the DiviCom family encoders, multiplexers, and smart edge devices for VOD and broadcast applications. Advanced technology solutions provide ultra-low bit-rate encoding, digital stream processing, IP transport, in addition to the statistical multiplexing of HD, SD and data streams. Harmonic’s digital headend products provide operators with the ability to accept a variety of signals from different sources, in different protocols, and to organize and manage this content to maximize use of the available bandwidth. The encoders, multiplexers and modulators allow our customers to convert analog video to digital and to process this output into a stream which can be delivered over a fixed-line or wireless network to subscribers. Harmonic is a leading provider of MPEG-2 video encoders deployed in DTH, cable, telecommunications and broadcast networks.