Harris Corporation to Showcase Products and Solutions for Emerging Mobile TV Market at IBC2006

Harris Corporation to Showcase Products and Solutions for Emerging Mobile TV Market at IBC2006

Booths to Highlight Total Content Delivery Solutions for Mobile TV Networks

CINCINNATI, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation's (NYSE:HRS) Broadcast Communications Division announces a prominent display for the emerging mobile TV market at IBC2006, with ongoing demonstrations at its main stand (7.621, Hall 7) and the Mobile Zone (M225). Its participation in early stage trials across Europe and Australia, as well as its development of transmitters for Modeo and Qualcomm MediaFLO U.S.A. applications (both scheduled to launch by 2007), have positioned Harris as a leading transmission vendor for mobile TV applications. At IBC2006, Harris will demonstrate mobile TV broadcasts for the leading standards (DVB-H, FLO(TM) and T-DMB) featuring Harris transmitters and infrastructure/networking products, as well as third- party receiving equipment.

"Our mobile TV demonstrations at IBC will clearly demonstrate the scope of products available today from Harris," said Dale Mowry, vice president and general manager of Harris Broadcast Communications Division, Television Broadcast Systems business unit. "Beyond our leadership in transmission platforms for mobile TV, a broad range of Harris content delivery solutions for mobile TV will be on display, including platforms for DVB-H, FLO and T-DMB applications. Each standard offers viable benefits for operators. IBC is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate these benefits and how Harris is equipped to offer the most complete, technically sound transmission and infrastructure solutions in the broadcast industry."

Mobile TV transmission solutions from Harris have been used to develop and prove the effectiveness of the DVB-H, FLO and T-DMB standards for mobile broadcast television. The company will highlight its complete mobile TV product range through four separate demonstrations in the Mobile Zone. A Harris NetVX(TM) networking system will deliver content to the Mobile Zone from the main Harris stand in some demonstrations.

DVB-H over UHF

The Harris DVB-H UHF solutions are world proven in both high- and low- power applications. The higher-power Atlas liquid-cooled transmitter (offered in versions from 1.25 to 9 kW) is featured in the main Harris booth. In the Mobile Zone, Harris is delivering DVB-H content to a handset via the Atlas DTV-660 air-cooled UHF transmitter, which is offered in power levels up to 1.5 kW.

DVB-H over L-Band

The Harris Cool Play(TM) Mobile TV transmitter offers a unique "convection-cooled" architecture for outdoor installations. The 1670 MHz version of the transmitter will transmit video to a handset developed for Modeo, a U.S. DVB-H operator. The Cool Play 1670 transmitter is available at power levels up to 400 watts in L-Band.

FLO(TM) over UHF

The entire of range of Harris ATSC transmitters are now available for FLO applications, based on the new Harris Apex FLO exciter that Harris is featuring in the Mobile Zone. Harris will receive live transmissions of a multichannel FLO service on a handset. This marks the first Harris display in Europe of FLO transmission products.

T-DMB over DAB

As one of the market leaders and pioneers in DAB, Harris has a full line of VHF and L-Band DAB transmitters that can be used to deliver mobile TV over DAB. In the Mobile Zone, Harris will demonstrate the receipt of digital radio channels and multichannel TV on a T-DMB handset from a Harris DAB-660 transmitter. Harris will demonstrate how the standard's highly efficient audio encoding allows for transmission of multiple digital radio and video channels using the same transmitter.

At the Harris booth, the company will display its strengths in terrestrial TV transmission. The Harris Atlas(TM) transmitter family will be prominently displayed in the delivery section of the Harris stand. As a global UHF transmitter platform, the Atlas liquid-cooled transmitter family supports analog, digital and mobile television standards. Visitors can see an active demonstration of the Atlas DVB-T/DVB-H platform delivering HDTV and H.264 mobile TV content. A widescreen display will receive and broadcast the HDTV content, with the H.264 mobile content received on a handheld device.

The terrestrial TV area also will include a demonstration of the Harris/Neural Audio MultiMerge for DTV. MultiMerge uses intelligent detection to blend any audio (mono, stereo, matrix encoded stereo (L/R), and 5.1 discrete content) into a seamless, uninterrupted 5.1 surround sound stream.

Harris began developing terrestrial transmission platforms for mobile TV in 2004 after participating in early demonstrations and the development of the DVB-H standard. The company's recent acquisition of Leitch Technology adds a range of servers, routers, switchers and processing equipment to Harris(R) NetVX video encoding and distribution systems, providing the infrastructure for bringing content into the mobile TV headend. Meanwhile, equipment from the Harris Software Systems business unit adds a complement of broadband software and distribution equipment for network management, traffic scheduling, digital asset management and ad insertion, among other applications. The entire portfolio gives Harris the most comprehensive solution for mobile TV.

About Harris Broadcast Communications Division

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. With headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, the company has annual sales of over $3.5 billion and more than 14,000 employees -- including more than 6,000 engineers and scientists -- dedicated to the development of best-in-class assured communications(TM) products, systems, and services. The company's operating divisions serve markets for government communications, RF communications, broadcast communications, and microwave communications. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/ .

FLO(TM) is a trademark of Qualcomm MediaFLO USA

Source: Harris Corporation

CONTACT: Laura Whitaker, Harris Broadcast Communications Division,
+1-408-782-1201, or laura.whitaker@harris.com; or Robin Hoffman, Pipeline
Communications, +1-973-746-6970, or robinh@pipecomm.com, for Harris

Web site: http://www.harris.com/

EDITORS' ADVISORY: Cool Play Transmitter Photos are available on the Harris website at http://www.broadcast.harris.com/news/photos.asp

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