TVBEurope 57 NAB 2012 Headline News RadiantGrid acquired by Wohler By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
RADIANTGRID TECHNOLOGIES,which debuted its support of adaptive bitrate streaming formats at NAB this year, has been acquired by Wohler Technologies. This acquisition will provide current and new RadiantGrid users the benefit of additional sales, technical and development support worldwide “Like Wohler, RadiantGrid is
always looking to keep itself ahead of emerging technologies, offering our users access to the latest file format support,” said Kirk Marple, RadiantGrid president and chief software architect. “Now being a Wohler Technologies company, RadiantGrid will be able to offer even more innovations to meet the industry’s changing needs, combined with expanded sales and support.” “We see ourselves as an
innovator in this file-based workflow space. The big thing we’re looking at for NAB this year is faster than realtime standards conversion. It’s a first time offering for this space,” added Marple at the Wohler press conference during NAB. “We’ve been looking for the right partner in the industry to accelerate our growth internationally and domestically. I think it’s really going to pay off for both companies.” Wohler’s acquisition of
RadiantGrid will allow the two companies to streamline file-based workflows with a full range of video, audio, data, and QC solutions that support broadcasters for distribution needs such as IPTV and VoD. “Over the past 20 years, we
have watched the industry change and evolve and have always been right there along with it, offering our users the latest video and audio monitoring, and data management technologies,” said Carl J. Dempsey, president and CEO of Wohler Technologies. He also added that when they
asked their customers what they needed, they came back with “faster than realtime processing, and there was nothing in their bag of tricks that could get there. We’ve really ramped up our engineering and so we’re on the road to a file-based solution.” By bringing RadiantGrid into the
Wohler family, Dempsey said: “The association now accelerates and expands that. The acquisition of RadiantGrid, which has a proven reputation of providing innovative file-based solutions, is a great
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