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SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 6, 2013 - Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader
in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that Norwegian operator GET
has deployed a comprehensive Harmonic headend solution to power its IPTV, cable,
and OTT multiscreen services. Through a high-density and scalable architecture
designed to optimize bandwidth efficiencies, Harmonic's video infrastructure
solutions enable GET to cost-effectively deliver high-quality HD video services
to a wide range of IP-connected devices.

"Continued strong subscriber demand for new cable and value-added video services
made it imperative that we adopt a video infrastructure solution enabling
continued scaling with great video quality," said Christophe Brod, VP Broadcast,
GET. "Harmonic's integrated headend solution enables us to deliver exceptional
HD video quality and user experience for both linear broadcast and OTT
multiscreen, while significantly decreasing our operational   and capital expenses
as we roll out cutting-edge video services."

At the heart of GET's integrated Harmonic headend is the fully redundant
ProStream(®) 1000 with ACE(®) real-time transcoding platform. Utilizing this
versatile processing solution, GET can perform MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)
video and audio transcoding of multiple HD broadcast channels, as well as
advanced statistical multiplexing, in order to maximize bandwidth efficiencies
across its IP network. ProStream dramatically reduces GET's carbon footprint and
operating expenses, leveraging a high-density, scalable architecture.

For live OTT services, Harmonic's ProMedia(TM) Live real-time multiscreen video
processing and encoding system leverages adaptive bit rate technology to
transcode MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 AVC content into multiple streams of H.264 with
varying video resolutions and bit rates optimized for multiscreen delivery.
Encoding is split across multiple machines to enable rapid media processing.
ProStream and ProMedia Live are managed by Harmonic's NMX(TM) Digital Service
Manager, simplifying the creation, modification, and management of service
lineups.

Harmonic ProMedia Carbon transcoders handle a variety of critical operations for
GET's VOD services, including SD/HD conversion, PAL/NTSC conversion, logo
insertion, color space conversion, color correction, and closed-captions
extraction, from a file-based architecture that can scale to meet the operator's
evolving business needs. The ProMedia Carbon transcoding farms are controlled
via a Harmonic WFS(TM) file-based workflow system, which provides automated
processing of high-volume transcoding tasks, failover support, job distribution
management, job prioritization, load balancing, FTP transfer, status monitoring,
and job notification, to further increase operational efficiencies.

"Given the increased consumer demand over the last several years for a high-
quality video experience on any device, multiscreen video services are becoming
an important tool for cable operators to retain existing customers as well as
attract new subscribers," said Thomas Henriksen, regional sales director, North
Europe, Harmonic. "By maximizing GET's scalability, flexibility, and operational
efficiencies through a unified platform, Harmonic's video infrastructure
solutions will help streamline multiscreen and OTT delivery while enabling the
operator to achieve a superior video quality."

Further information about Harmonic and the company's products is available at
www.harmonicinc.com.

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About Harmonic
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) is the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure
for emerging television and video services. The company's production-ready
innovation enables content and service providers to efficiently create, prepare,
and deliver differentiated services for television and new media video
platforms. More information is available at www.harmonicinc.com.

About GET
Get is Norway's leading digital television and broadband provider, delivering
daily services to over 470,000 homes in Norway over both HFC (Hybrid-Fiber-Coax)
and FTTH solutions. Get is known for innovative and user friendly products and
Gets customers have the widest range of digital TV channels and VOD services in
Norway in addition to telephony, mobile broadband and internet speeds up to
200Mbps.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, including statements related to the anticipated
capabilities and benefits of Harmonic's ProStream® 1000 with ACE®, ProMedia(TM),
and WFS(TM) products. Our expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may
not materialize and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the
possibility that that the products do not meet some or all of their anticipated
capabilities or provide some or all of their anticipated benefits, such as
maximized scalability, flexibility, and operational efficiencies, and the
achievement of superior video quality.

The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are also subject
to other risks and uncertainties, such as those more fully described in
Harmonic's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec.31, 2012, its Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q and its Current Reports on Form 8-K. The forward-looking
statements in this press release are based on information available to Harmonic
as of the date hereof, and Harmonic disclaims any obligation to update any
forward-looking statements.

EDITOR'S NOTE - Product and company names used herein are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.

CONTACTS:
Paulien Ruijssenaars                      Michael Bishop
Director of Public Relations for Harmonic Investor Relations Contact for
+1.408.490.7021                           Harmonic
paulien.ruijssenaars@harmonicinc.com      +1.408.542.2760
                                          investor@harmonicinc.com





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