Elecard Group

Elecard is a provider of software products for encoding, decoding, processing, receiving and transmitting video and audio data in different formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, and others). Elecard offers a wide range of software solutions for professional digital TV broadcasting market, which includes streaming, transcoding, video-on-demand servers, professional products and software development kits (SDKs), develops digital TV Set-Top Boxes and end-user applications. Elecard provides reference design, software components and technical support for the integrator companies as well.

History

1988 Foundation of Elecard.

1989- 1995 Elecard develops multimedia applications and PC hardware. Among the company's products are Frame Grabber, VideoCatcher, Information Storage and Retrieval Systems Portret and Portland. In 1996 Company releases MPEG Editor based on Microsoft ActiveMovie (a.k.a DirectShow) filters. Elecard announces a multi-channel Sound Recorder and special-purpose hardware for surveillance systems.

1997-1999 Elecard Ltd. works on the Russian domestic market specializing in multimedia production development, Internet and Intranet software development, and digital video research.

In 2000-2001 Company combines efforts in marketing its technology and products with Moonlight Cordless Ltd, with headquarters in Israel and reenter the international market with the MPEG-2 Video Decoder engine, Wavelet Image Compressor, and SDK v2.0. In 2002-2003 Elecard releases SDK v2.1, DVD simple player, MSeye, MPEG Player v2.1, SDK v3.0.

2003 AVC/H.264 codec is released the same year as the standard itself, makes it into the top 5 best quality and productivity codecs.

In 2005 Elecard and Main Concept AG team up, and Elecard developers contribute to the creation of well-known solutions of Main Concept. Elecard Deviсes derives from the Elecard group.

2006 is notable due to release of a firmware solution SIGMA iTV for IPTV.

2007 Startup of set-top box manufacturing in Russia. Elecard Devices becomes officially accepted as a resident of Tomsk Special Economic Zone of Technological and Innovative Type.

Organizational structure and customers

Group Divisions

• Software codecs and SDK’s
• End-user software
• Professional video analyzers
• DVB/IPTV/WebTV servers
• Hardware designs for consumer market

Elecard offices

• Tomsk (Russia) – Headquarters
• Moscow (Russia)
• San Francisco (USA)

Subsidiaries

• Triaxes Vision
• Elecard-Med
• Solveig Multimedia

Notable customers and partners

IBM
Innotech
Momentum Data Systems
Prog DVB
Teracue
GDT
NVIDIA
NXP
Texas Instruments
Wowza Media Systems
Verimatrix
SecureMedia

Products

Awards

Subsequent to the results of 2010 MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video codec comparison carried out by Moscow State University “Compression project” Elecard AVC Encoder has demonstrated the fastest speed of encoding with a high picture quality.

Elecard was recognized as the “Russian Innovation Leader” at the Forum “New Electronics in Russia” in 2009.

External links

• elecard.com
• elecard.tv