About ATEME
Keep content looking great wherever it’s played
ATEME is a video compression solution provider to the broadcast and telecom industries headquartered in Bièvres near Paris, France, and operating worldwide through its distribution network and support offices.
Thanks to a pioneering commitment to standards and two decades of continued research investment, ATEME offers today the most advanced implementations of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codecs. These home grown algorithms are the pride of the company and the heart of our products and solutions.
ATEME primarily targets bandwidth sensitive applications where its unrivalled compression efficiency delivers an increased Quality of Experience for the final users, while reducing our customers operating costs.
ATEME encoding solutions are deployed widely in broadcast contribution links over satellite or fiber networks, in video distribution to the home, and in multi-screen delivery of live channels and VOD, also known as Over-The-Top video. The company addresses compression applications ranging from 3D and Ultra High Definition transmissions to web and mobile streaming. When cost effective video quality matters, the choice is ATEME.
History
ATEME Celebrates 20 years of Innovation in 2011
ATEME [pronounce ‘a-‘ as in ah and ‘-tem’, ignore the final ‘e’] originally stands for “Assistance Technique et Etudes de Materiels Electroniques”, or Technical Assistance and Design or Electronic Equipment in English. Founded in 1991 in Bièvres, just outside Paris, by Dominique Edelin and Michel Artières, the company started as a design house with a dozen employees.
The next 10 years saw organic growth up to a hundred employees, engineering turnkey systems and providing consulting services to the most demanding industrial groups in France.
At the end of the 90s, ATEME joined the 3rd party alliance networks of Texas Instruments, Altera and Xilinx, all providers of high performance programmable DSP and FPGA processors. The company was soon recognized as a center of expertise for video compression algorithms, supplying both software libraries and real-time embedded reference designs.
In 2004, we co-developed the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 software encoder Nero Digital, for the PC, which even now is probably the most widely deployed H.264 codec worldwide.
In 2005, we introduced the world’s first FPGA based MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder and launched our first encoding products for broadcast and broadband as OEM.
In 2007, we launched our Kyrion family of encoders at the NAB show in Las Vegas.
In 2008, we incorporated ATEME in the USA and opened an office in California.
In 2009, we launched the Titan platform for massive parallel multi screen transcoding, and the world first MPEG-4 4:2:2 10-bit encoder and decoder pair for the high end broadcast contribution.
In 2010, MPEG-4 4:2:2 10-bit has become the standard for broadcast contribution of sports content by satellite; our Kyrion encoders enjoyed broad adoption in the wake of the FIFA world cup. We deployed turn-key video head-ends for greenfield IPTV projects in Europe, America and Asia. And Titan has become the preferred solution of our customers to address their multi-screen delivery challenges. These success led to a record financial year for ATEME.
In 2011, we opened another ATEME office in Miami, USA.
In 2012, we opened another ATEME office in Seoul, Korea.
Throughout the history of the company we have focused on video compression and have developed a unique expertise in this area. Throughout the history of the company we have been technology innovators.