Monday, March 12, 2007

SNAPSHOT: Vidyatel



Company profile
Vidyatel is a privately-owned Israeli corporation. Originally founded in 2002 to develop and market a real-time distribution/content-management server over IP broadband networks in the area of IPTV.
Vidyatel developed a video-based content monitoring system: Motion Picture Fingerprint – MPF solution. Vidyatel's system identifies any identical components in distinct videos over the Internet, streaming video or television broadcast.
The main investor in Vidyatel is BATM/Telco system (BVC.L).

Management

Asher Hershtik
A video-broadcasting and post-production expert. Previously: Founder & CEO of ContentWise. CEO of Terra Computers, a subsidiary of El-Op. Team Leader in El-Op in the defense and aerospace industries. Developer of encryption technologies for Israel Defense Forces.

Ofer Harpak
A successful entrepreneur since the late eighties. He served from 1999 to 2003 as CTO of BATM/Telco systems – Metro Ethernet Systems Provider and is also a Co-founder of WiNetworks, engaged in WiMAX /Wireless systems offering triple play solutions for TV Broadcasters.