Wohler announces acquisition of RadiantGrid Technologies
Published: ASIA
WORLD: Wohler Technologies has announced its acquisition of RadiantGrid Technologies. ‘By joining these resources we are positioned to move quickly into exciting new areas and to roll out innovative solutions that help broadcast organisations everywhere to deliver media efficiently, effectively, and economically,’ said Carl J Dempsey, president and CEO of Wohler Technologies.
The announcement sees Wohler's modular monitoring and processing solutions unite with RadiantGrid's parallel processing technology, enabling the two companies to streamline IT-centric workflows with a full range of video, audio, data, and QC solutions. By building intelligence into its systems and processes, Wohler and RadiantGrid free up operators for other tasks while increasing the speed and efficiency with which content can be processed for delivery.
‘Our customers are increasingly making the move to more IT-centric infrastructures and looking to file-based solutions as a way to realise increased efficiency and profitability,’ said Mr Dempsey. ‘We have assembled engineering talent to develop our own file-based solutions, and the strategic acquisition of RadiantGrid – and the company's exceptional technology and talent – expands and accelerates that programme.’
Kirk Marple, president and chief software architect of RadiantGrid Technologies described the announcement as ‘the most important moment in the history of RadiantGrid. We are proud to be a part of the Wohler Technologies family, and we look forward to finding creative integration points with Wohler's strength in managing audio, video, and data. Together, we have long-term plans for RadiantGrid feature and product development. Building on Wohler's worldwide sales and support resources, as well as the company's market leadership, we plan to follow an aggressive growth path, domestically and worldwide, and to become a dominant company in the file-based workflow space.’
Mr Dempsey added: ‘Wohler products address management of audio, video, ancillary data, and loudness, all with an eye toward QC-ing those signals to ensure a high quality of experience for consumers. Radiant Grid offers a file-based path to achieve the same result. We view it as highly complementary to our existing range and a logical extension of Wohler's product offerings, from the baseband to the file-based domain.’