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Telestream, Inc. is USA based multinational product company well known in digital video Industry. Its provider of software and hardware products for video capture and ingest; live and on-demand encoding and transcoding; captioning; monitoring; playback and inspection, delivery, live streaming, workflow automation and orchestration, QC and monitoring and management of quality service and experience over networks.
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| Industry | Computer software |
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| Founded | 1998 in Nevada City, California, United States |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Dan Castles, CEO Shawn Carnahan, CTO |
| Products | Vantage CaptionMaker |
Number of employees | 500[1] |
| Website | www |
For more than two decades, Telestream has been at the forefront of innovation in the digital video industry, pioneering file-based video transcoding and high-quality media exchange over IP networks. Telestream provides world-class live and on-demand digital video tools and workflow solutions that allow businesses and consumers to transform video on the desktop and across the enterprise. Many of the world's leading media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, FOX, CBC, Comcast, Direct TV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery and Lifetime etc. as well as a growing number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences, and generate more revenue from their media. The company has been profitable since 2001 and has experienced double-digit revenue growth every year since. This has allowed the company to finance seven strategic acquisitions to expand its transcoding expertise and enter the content management, workflow automation, live streaming, QC, video test, quality and service assurance spaces. Today, Telestream continues to drive the industry forward by embracing agile software development methodologies that accelerate innovation in this highly dynamic and fast-changing market.
Recently Telestream made Video department of Tektronix to merge with itself. There are several supporting articles online. This was a big merger as together they capture 40% of their market making them. Telestream helps OTT companies to solve their end-to-end problems.
History
The company, founded in 1998, is headquartered in Nevada City, California with personnel in France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Canada, INDIA, CHINA and the UK.[2]
Telestream as highly profitable product company has been growing exponentially and making acquisitions. It has made 12 Acquisitions and 1 merger till 9 march 2021.
Telestream provides live and on-demand digital video tools and workflow solutions[buzzword] that allow consumers and businesses to transform video on the desktop and across the enterprise. Many media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox, CBC, Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.
As of Q1 2010, revenues for enterprise products were up 25% for the first quarter over the previous year, and desktop products grew by 45%.[3] More than 80% of the top broadcast station groups, media companies and Fortune 100 companies, along with millions of consumers, currently use Telestream products.[4]
Products
Telestream products span the entire digital media lifecycle, including video capture and ingest; live and on-demand encoding and transcoding; captioning; playback and inspection, delivery, live streaming, workflow automation and orchestration, and monitoring and management of quality service and experience over networks. The company also partners closely with digital media companies across the entire digital media lifecycle, from consumer to enterprise.
- IQ Solutions are products and solutions[buzzword] that provide analytics to monitor, analyze and optimize video — independent of the screen or network — with end-to-end visibility into subscriber, viewing experience, channel, and advertisement.
- Vantage, a video transcoding and workflow automation solution[buzzword] that enables file format conversion, device interoperability and intelligent workflow orchestration for multiscreen, OTT, broadcast, cable, and IPTV distribution, as well as production and archiving.
- Lightspeed Server, a server platform providing GPU acceleration to Vantage workflows.
- Lightspeed Live Capture, a server platform that encodes real-time SD, HD and UHD into mezzanine formats commonly in use worldwide, in addition to providing a streaming proxy for each channel.
- Lightspeed Live Stream, a server platform providing enterprise quality adaptive bit rate encoding for SD, HD and UHD in AVC and HEVC (h.264 and h.265), and also supplying a streaming proxy for each channel processed.
- Post Producer automates repetitive media editing and production processes that would otherwise tie up editors and NLE workstations.
- TrafficManager is an end-to-end solution[buzzword] for ad ingest, and management of ads and syndicated content at broadcast and cable facilities.
- Telestream Cloud is a high quality video encoding software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the cloud. Telestream Cloud pricing is structured as pay-as you-go monthly subscriptions for scaling as your needs change.
- Wirecast is live streaming production software that enables capture, live production, and encoding of live video streams for broadcast to multiple servers and destination platforms.
- ScreenFlow is a software screen recording and video editing product for web demos, training and video tutorials.
- MacCaption (Mac) and CaptionMaker (Windows) are software products that author, repair and repurpose captions for online, mobile and television delivery.
- Flip4Mac is a QuickTime software component that enables Macintosh users to play, edit, and encode Windows Media Video.
- Switch is a software product used to play, inspect, and correct media in one application.
- Vidchecker is a Windows software application that provides automated checking of video/audio file conformance. It can check file-based video before and after distribution, and is used by broadcasters for checking files received from post production and content distributors.
Awards
- On September 11, 2015, Telestream has been honored with an Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering.[5]
- The 2019 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award winner
- The 2020 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Winner in 13 categories
References
- ^ Telestream's corporation fact sheet
- ^ Turner, Melanie (2007-07-09). "Bridging the Mac/PC divide". Sacramento Business Journal. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
- ^ Dickson, Glen (2010-04-11). "Telestream Says Business is Good". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- ^ O'Neill, Jim (2010-04-12). "Telestream says 12 years of double-digit growth to continue as broadcasters look for ways to cut costs". FierceOnlineVideo. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- ^ Telestream honored with Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering (September 11, 2015) – Telestream