VITEC has today formally announced the acquisition of Datapath Ltd, a leader in real-time video processing for large-scale video walls, AVoIP content distribution, and KVM control in mission-critical control rooms, commercial applications, and creative environments. This strategic move strengthens VITEC’s video wall and video distribution portfolio, offering customers access to expanded engineering capability, customer support, distribution, and geographical reach.
Datapath is a highly respected Pro AV industry leader, renowned for its engineering excellence, intuitive video wall and control room solutions.Nicolas Quesne, Deputy CEO of VITEC
“Datapath is a highly respected Pro AV industry leader, renowned for its engineering excellence, intuitive video wall and control room solutions, and decades of heritage in video hardware and software development,” says Nicolas Quesne, Deputy CEO of VITEC. “Its portfolio complements our IPTV distribution technologies and opens new opportunities in the control room sector. This move marks an exciting new phase for VITEC as we continue our growth as a company.”
Datapath's advanced video wall processing, multi-display graphics, and AV-over-IP engineering expertise will be integrated into VITEC's solutions, allowing it to offer a broader range of capabilities to support IPTV distribution applications. Once the integration is complete, nearly 50% of VITEC’s workforce will be engineers, underscoring the company’s commitment to technical innovation and customer-centric development.
Bringing VITEC and Datapath together will allow us to accelerate product development and offer an even broader range of solutions, features and services.Phil Webster, VP of R&D for VITEC
Commenting on the acquisition, Phil Webster, VP of R&D for VITEC, said: “Bringing VITEC and Datapath together will allow us to accelerate product development and offer an even broader range of solutions, features and services. We’ve worked hard internally to align systems and strengthen both businesses, and we’re excited to integrate our combined expertise.” Webster was leading the R&D team at Datapath and now will be responsible for the engineering teams across the entire VITEC portfolio of video streaming solutions.
The integration will see Datapath’s product names and categories – including its video wall controllers & processors, AV-over-IP solutions, capture cards, and control room solutions – preserved within the VITEC portfolio. VITEC intends to maintain familiarity, while enhancing support and development capabilities for Datapath. Datapath serves customers in over 100 countries across industries including professional AV, defense, education, security, and healthcare.
About VITEC
VITEC is a market-leading provider of IPTV, Video Streaming and Digital Signage Solutions that help organizations harness the power of video to engage, empower and evolve. VITEC is a pioneer in the design and manufacture of hardware and software for video encoding, decoding, transcoding, archiving and streaming over IP. Our end-to-end video streaming solutions enable customers to capture TV and video content directly from any source and manage its delivery, as channels or within digital signage screens, to any connected device via an existing network. From corporate, broadcast and venues, to accommodation, government and military, VITEC has global expertise in delivering complex, Pro AV solutions.
VITEC’s award-winning IPTV platform is a powerful suite of services for content management, digital signage, video archiving, and video wall processing. Our encode/decode solutions are 100% hardware based, including PCIe cards with SDK for custom design or OEM for high-performance video systems.
Headquartered in Paris, France, we have a global reach through our offices across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Making a difference with green initiatives, VITEC is the first Zero Carbon MPEG company and encourages customers to ‘buy GreenPEG’ for continued environmental efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. https://www.vitec.com/
About Datapath
Datapath is a world leader in video wall and multi-display control technologies. The company designs and manufactures scalable, high-performance video wall controllers, capture cards, and AV-over-IP solutions that power mission-critical command and control centers, enterprise collaboration environments, and creative visual installations worldwide. Founded in 1982 and now distributing across five continents, Datapath has customers in more than one hundred countries Worldwide: covering multiple industries such as professional audio and video, military, education, security, and health care. Datapath is a privately held company, with a head office in Derby UK, plus sales and support offices in USA, Latin America, France, Germany, and Japan. By listening carefully to customers, continuous improvement, and putting quality in everything it does first, Datapath solutions are Excellent by Design.
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