Axis Communications
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| Public | |
| Traded as | Nasdaq Stockholm: AXIS |
| Industry |
Video surveillance Physical security Research and development |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Founders | Mikael Karlsson Martin Gren Keith Bloodworth |
| Headquarters | Lund, Sweden |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Ray Mauritsson, CEO Jonas Hansson, CIO Johan Paulsson, CTO Fredrik Sjöstrand, CFO |
| Products |
Network cameras Network video encoders Network video recorders Video management systems Video analytics Physical access control |
| Revenue |
 SEK 6.635 billion (2015) |
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SEK 881 million (2015) |
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Number of employees
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2,139 |
| Website | www |
Axis Communications AB is a Swedish manufacturer of network cameras for the physical security and video surveillance industries.It operates in the market segments transport, infrastructure, retail, banking, education, government and industrial.
Axis Communications originally started out as an IT company selling print servers. It then applied its knowledge in networks and embedded computing to develop network cameras for the security industry. Most of its products contain an embedded computer with some flash memory and run a custom version of Linux. One of its major breakthroughs in technology was the development of JFFS, which extended the lifetime of the devices' flash memory.
Axis Communications was founded in 1984 by Martin Gren, Mikael Karlsson and Keith Bloodworth in Lund, Sweden. The company developed and sold and printer interfaces for the connection of PC printers in IBM mainframe and mini-computer environments. By the end of the 1980s, Axis Communications had opened its first U.S. sales office in Boston, Massachusetts and in the early 1990s started shifting its focus away from IBM mainframes towards networking and the TCP/IP protocol.
In 1991, Axis Communications introduced a multi-protocol print server supporting both TCP/IP and NetWare. In 1995, the company introduced a file server independent, multi-protocol CD-ROM server, supporting TCP/IP (NFS) and Windows (SMB), for Ethernet networks, the AXIS 850. Also by 1995, Axis Communications had opened sales offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, Japan.
In 1996, Axis Communications introduced the industry's first network camera, the AXIS 200. This was followed in 1999 by the AXIS 2100 which was the first volume product using an embedded Linux. In 2004, the company introduced the AXIS 206, the then smallest network camera.
In 2008, Axis Communications announced together with Bosch and Sony that the companies will cooperate in order to standardize the interface of network video products and form a new industry standards body called ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum). Axis Communications introduced its first product with ONVIF support in 2009, the AXIS P3301. There are now over 600 ONVIF conformant products available.
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