Envivio
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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Video software |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Julien Signes |
| Fate | Acquired by Ericsson |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Julien Signes (President & CEO) |
| Revenue | $50.6 million (2012) |
Number of employees | 163 (2014) |
| Website | envivio.com |
Envivio is a software-based video processing and delivery solutions company. It was founded in 2000 in San Francisco by Julien Signes, the president and CEO, with a focus on developing technologies supported by the MPEG-4 standard, a standard for audio and video coding formats and related technology.[1]
Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco with offices in Singapore, Beijing, Denver (Colorado) and Rennes.
History
Envivio was created in 2000 as a spin-off of the France Telecom R&D Labs in San Francisco and Rennes. The co-founders were contributors to the specification and development of MPEG-4, which is available on most consumer devices. The company holds 17 patents dating as far back as 2000.[2][3] Envivio went public on April 25, 2012.[4]
Products
Envivio products include encoders and transcodes, network media Processors, gateways and multiplexers, management systems, quality controls and platforms. The company has been a pioneer in software-based, over-the-top delivery to multiple screens.[5]
In 2014, Envivio was contracted to provide 4K UHDTV coverage of the French Open for TDF,[6] to assist Globosat in providing 4K coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup[7] and also to provide the only live multi-screen coverage for Comcast,[8] and to provide cloud-based video multiscreen transcoding services for Beijing Gehua CATV Network Co. using its Muse software.[9][10]
See also
References
- ^ "Registration Statement, Envivio, Inc". 2011-04-15.
- ^ "Managing User Interaction for Live Multimedia Broadcast". Patentmaps. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
- ^ "Quantization and Compression of Information in a Direct Acyclic Graph". Patentmaps. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
- ^ "Envivio". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
- ^ "Passing clouds – the evolution of OTT multiscreen delivery". Digital TV Europe.net. 2014-08-12.
- ^ "TDF partners with Envivio to air French Open in 4K". Digital TV Europe.net. 2014-05-27.
- ^ Reynolds, Mike (2014-07-02). "World Cup: Globosat, Envivio Team on 4K Delivery". Multichannel News.
- ^ Robuck, Mike (2014-08-26). "FIFA World Cup a watershed for multi-screen". CED magazine.
- ^ Santo, Brian (2014-08-28). "Envivio sets up cloud multi-screen service for Chinese company". CED magazine.
- ^ Baumgartner, Jeff (2014-08-28). "Envivio's Top Sales Exec Departing". Multichannel News.