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Giraffic

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Industry
  
Streaming Media

Headquarters
  
Tel Aviv

Type of business
  
Private

Website
  
www.giraffic.com

Founded
  
2008

Key people
  
Yoel Zanger(founder and CEO) Rotem Epelbaum (VP R&D)

Products
  
Adaptive Video Accelerator (AVA)

Services
  
Streaming media content delivery acceleration; Mobile-to-mobile file transfer acceleration; Mobile video acceleration

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Giraffic is a company that develops "Adaptive Video Acceleration” (AVA(tm)) software that attempts to improve the performance of streaming video. It sells primarily to OTT Video Apps Providers, as well as to Consumer Electronics Device Manufacturers, such as Samsung.

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History

The company was founded in 2008 by Gil Gat, Boris Malamud and Yoel Zanger. Prior to founding Giraffic, Yoel Zanger co-founded New-Tone Technologies, a value-added services platform for mobile applications based on advanced voice and data technologies. Yoel Zanger is CEO and Rotem Epelbaum is the VP R&D. Giraffic is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel and has offices in the United States, Korea and Hong Kong. Directors & Advisors include Menashe Rothschild, Jeffrey Parkinson, Bhupen Shah, Anton Monk, Gregg Bernard, Mitch Singer and Levy Gerzberg. Investors include KEC Ventures and Previz Ventures.

Technology

Giraffic’s Adaptive Video Acceleration (AVA) software debuted at CES 2015 where they demoed their video product on Samsung Smart TVs, Broadcom IP set-top boxes and on Intel Puma Home Gateway.

Patents

  • US Patent 14/287,276 IL 231685 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE BUFFERING AND NETWORK SHAPING
  • US Patent 9306860. A congestion control method for dynamically maximizing communication link throughput. Filing date October 14, 2013
  • US Patent 8473610. Proactive seeding of data in a peer to peer network. Filing date June 22, 2011
  • U.S. Patent 20,120,054,260A1. Asynchronous data streaming in a peer to peer network. Issued March 1, 2012
  • Partners

    Samsung and LG use Giraffic's Adaptive Video Acceleration (AVA) technology.

    Competitors

    Companies who offer solutions competitive to Giraffic's include Conviva and Ooyala.

    References

    Giraffic Wikipedia