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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (2581)	12/2/1998 9:44:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4134

Mark, old news, new news from HLIT,one of the three international digital video now deploying was announced. I think one of the other ones is in China,the third probably US. I don't know for sure. But anyway,the direction of HLIT is great! The are going to remultiplexing digital signals with software,and may become the dominant cable software vendor. The alliance with V-Bits is very strategic,along with the three announcements today. Wednesday December 2, 8:33 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Major Canadian Cable TV Operator Is Using Harmonic Lightwaves' Headend in Digital Service Rollout Videotron Takes Multi-Vendor Approach to its Quebec Province Network: Uses Harmonic's TRANsend Headend and Scientific-Atlanta's Set-top Boxes ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1998-- At the California Cable Television Association's Western Show, Harmonic Lightwaves, Inc. (Nasdaq:HLIT - news) today announced that Videotron, Canada's second largest cable television operator, is installing Harmonic's TRANsend(tm) digital headend and Scientific-Atlanta's Explorer® 2000 set-top boxes to enable its network to deliver digital video channels, Pay-Per-View and Near-Video on Demand services to subscribers. Videotron expects to offer these digital services over its system, which passes 2.3 million homes throughout the province of Quebec, in early 1999. ''Our major goals in this upgrade are to offer subscribers the latest digital services with the highest quality picture, while keeping costs under control. To meet these goals we adopted a 'best-of-breed' approach in selecting components for the system,'' said Alain Boissonnault, Videotron's director of digital video development. ''Videotron's Montreal upgrade is the first example of an emerging trend in which cable operators choose to work with multiple vendors instead of single source suppliers,'' said Colin Boyd, Harmonic's vice president of North American sales and worldwide marketing. ''As vendors increasingly support OpenCable and other industry standards to ensure the interoperability of their equipment, operators will have the freedom to assemble complete systems using the individual components that best meet their requirements, regardless of who makes them.'' Installation of TRANsend has already begun at Videotron's Montreal headend, where it will be used to digitally-encode locally-sourced content for combination with digital channels that Videotron receives via satellite. As a second phase, Videotron's digital channel line-up will be sent to the company's four remote headends that in turn feed 30 secondary headends throughout Quebec, via its hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network, later in 1999. Additional MPEG-2 encoders are planned to be added for local channel insertion in each regional headend. Capella Telecommunications, Harmonic's Canadian distributor, is providing technical support and training to Videotron as it deploys TRANsend. At the Western Show, Harmonic is demonstrating the open architecture of TRANsend by having it interoperate with equipment and set-top boxes from General Instrument, Nokia, Sagem and Scientific-Atlanta. Tim