EuroProfile: Edgeware

The London Olympics has highlighted the demand for multi-screen video, with over-the-top services such as the BBC's iPlayer creaking under the strain of sports fans streaming action to their laptops, tablets and smartphones.

One company that really stands to make hay in the brave new multi-screen (or TV Everywhere) world is Edgeware AB , a Swedish outfit that specializes in video delivery systems based on its Convoy VDN and Orbit hardware platform. Its core aim, it says, is to help operators monetize video. (See Edgeware Unveils Convoy Video Software.)



Its customers to date include Telia Company , KPN Telecom NV (NYSE: KPN) and Belgacom SA (Euronext: BELG) in Europe, and Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. (NYSE: CHT) in China, while SeaChange International Inc. (Nasdaq: SEAC), Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC) and Nokia Networks are numbered amongst its vendor partners. (See TeliaSonera Uses Edgeware.)

One of its most recent collaborations saw the integration of its VoD servers with SeaChange's Adrenalin back-office software, a combination that proved attractive to Starman, Estonia's largest cable operator. (See Edgeware Adds Server, Teams With SeaChange and SeaChange Picked for Estonian VoD.)

And what video might Edgeware CEO Joachim Roos stream to his connected device of choice in his leisure hours? Well, it seems squabbling hitmen and crocodile-skin jackets will loom large. Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead....

Table 1: Edgeware Cheat Sheet

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading