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MANUFACTURER
Changing live content production and delivery Headquartered in Oslo, Norway and
Awards and Recognition
the perfect balance between cost,
with customers in over 100 countries,
Appear has subsequently won several
bitrate, price and availability is essential.
Appear AS is a leading supplier
national and international prizes for
of media processing and delivery
revenue growth, internationalisation
ultra-low latency platform for high-
technology. It provides the backbone
and technology. In 2021, it won
speed video networking, enhanced IP
that production companies, telcos and
TVBEurope’s coveted Best of Show and
security and advanced compression for
broadcasters trust to make immersive live
was awarded a grant from Innovation
remote production, contribution and
experiences possible for their viewers.
Norway for the NEO Series — an
distribution markets. X Platform fulfils
efficient new server-based line of
the highly demanding requirements
software compression products.
of sport and e-sport applications,
Where It All Started Founded in 2004 by 11 professionals
With continuing consumer demand
X Platform: A high-capacity, versatile,
among many others, and can be used
with industry background from
for content across more devices,
as a compression head-end for OTT,
Tandberg Television, Appear is now
Appear is actively involved with industry
IPTV, broadcast and for high density
renowned in the market for world-class
bodies and technology partners,
satellite turnaround or monitoring.
products and expertise. Before Appear
helping advance standardisation
was founded, the broadcast market
and continuously innovate so
comprised solutions that only performed
customers stay one step ahead in
the X10DSNG provides a tailor-
single functions such as scrambling,
a market where expectations and
made solution for digital satellite
multiplexing, decoding and demodulation.
requirements are constantly evolving.
news gathering (DSNG), supporting
X10 DSNG: For live event coverage,
encoding, decoding and satellite uplink
Appear saw a gap in the market and an opportunity to develop solutions with
Appear Better, Appear Faster
modularity in mind, capable of multiple
Contribution is a big drain on bandwidth
functions housed within a single chassis
for operators, with multiple channels and
meets the very specific and challenging
— drastically reducing required rack
feeds that need to be delivered in high
needs of mobile production. Supporting
space and operational complexity.
definition and with low latency. Finding
an array of compression technologies
and downlink in a single chassis. The compact, powerful solution
and protocols, it can handle satellite and fibre delivery simultaneously and has built-in security and redundancy features to ensure reliability.
