- Tandberg Television
Infobox_Company | company_
company_type =subsidiary ofEricsson
company_slogan = We're televisionaries
foundation =1979
location =Southampton ,UK
key_people = CEO: Eric Cooney
num_employees = Over 900 (2007 )
industry =Digital Video |Telecommunications |VOD
products = Advanced compression on-demand and interactive television systems
revenue = US$350 million (2006 )
homepage = [http://www.tandbergtv.com/ www.tandbergtv.com]"Tandberg Television" is a company providing advanced compression, on-demand and interactive television solutions. As part of the
Ericsson Group , the company's customers are network operators and broadcasters.The company has 900 employees world wide. The headquarters for the Americas headquarters is in
Atlanta, Georgia , USA, while the global headquarters inSouthampton , UK, while the Asia-Pacific headquarters is located inHong Kong , SAR. Research and development offices are located in the UK and USA while sales and support operations are provided across Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.The company was honored at the 2008
Technology & Engineering Emmy Award s for development of interactive Video-on-Demand infrastructure and signaling, leading to large scaleVOD implementations.History
Tandberg Television, originally with headquarters in
Oslo , Norway, was formed in1979 when the original Tandberg company split intoTandberg ,Tandberg Data , and Tandberg Television.In 1999 Tandberg Television entered into a £170 million agreement to acquire all the assets of NDS’ Digital-TV products business, the Digital Broadcasting Business (DBB), a subsidiary of
The News Corporation group. After the acquisition, Tandberg Television could offer digital video compression encoders, multiplexers and modulation products for large satellite DTH systems, terrestrial networks and mobile news gathering solutions.Tandberg Television has since then acquired four U.S-based digital media companies. In December 2004 Tandberg Television acquired Atlanta-based N2 Broadband, a provider of open-platform solutions for video-on-demand. In October 2005, they acquired Los Angeles-based Goldpocket Interactive, an interactive technology provider for digital television, the Internet and wireless/mobile networks. Further, in February 2006, they acquired SkyStream Networks, a provider of IP
MPEG-2 andMPEG-4 AVC video delivery solutions, based inSunnyvale, California . Later the same year, they acquired Los Angeles-based Internet TV software developer Zetools.In April 2007, Tandberg Television was acquired by
Ericsson . Tandberg Television operates as an independent entity within the Ericsson Business Unit Multimedia.External links
* [http://www.tandbergtv.com/ Tandberg Television]
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