AWS Elemental, formerly known as Elemental Technologies, is a software company headquartered in Portland, Oregon and owned by Amazon Web Services that specializes in multiscreen video.
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22 Facts About Elemental Technologies
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Elemental Technologies has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India and Brazil.
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Elemental Technologies was founded in 2006 by three engineers formerly of the semiconductor company Pixelworks: Sam Blackman, Jesse Rosenzweig, and Brian Lewis.
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In July 2012, Elemental Technologies products supported the broadcast of the 2012 Summer Olympics on internet devices for media companies including the BBC, Eurosport, Terra Networks and others.
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In September 2013, Elemental Technologies was named to the Silicon Forest top 25 by The Oregonian.
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In 2015, during security testing conducted as a prelude to a possible acquisition by Amazon, it was reported that some Elemental Technologies servers contained chips from Chinese manufacturing subcontractors that allowed backdoor access.
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Elemental Technologies received its initial investments in 2007 in the amount of $1.
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In July 2008, Elemental Technologies announced it had closed its first round of venture capital financing, receiving $7.
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In 2009, Elemental Technologies formed a partnership with In-Q-Tel - the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Elemental Technologies servers were subsequently used in various secure capacities, including by the United States Department of Defense, the United States Navy, NASA, the United States Congress and the Department of Homeland Security.
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In May 2012, Elemental Technologies closed its Series C financing for $13 million from Norwest Venture Partners.
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In September 2015, Elemental Technologies was acquired by Amazon Web Services, for an estimated $350 million.
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AWS Elemental Technologies MediaPackage prepares and secures live video streams for delivery to connected devices.
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In November 2009, Elemental Technologies released the first video server appliance to utilize the graphics processing unit for video on demand transcoding.
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Elemental Technologies Delta is a video delivery platform designed to optimize the monetization, management and distribution of multiscreen video across internal and external IP networks.
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Elemental Technologies Delta has been presented at IBC in September 2014 and won the IABM Design and Innovation award for Playout and Delivery Systems.
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Elemental Technologies Cloud provides transcoding services in a cloud computing environment using clustered graphics processors.
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Elemental Technologies Statmux is a software-based statistical multiplexer that optimizes content delivery for pay TV operators by reallocating bits in real time between video encoders and combining the outputs from multiple encoders into a single transport stream.
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Elemental Technologies Conductor is a scalable management system of two or more Elemental Technologies video processing systems.
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On October 23,2008, Elemental Technologies released Badaboom, a consumer media converter, in partnership with NVIDIA Corporation.
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Elemental Technologies supported Badaboom until April, 2013, without further software updates.
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