Kudelski SA
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| Stock corporation | |
| Traded as | SIX: KUD |
| Industry | Digital TV, public access, cybersecurity |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Headquarters | Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Key people
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André Kudelski: CEO |
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Number of employees
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3800 |
| Website | nagra.com |
The Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.S) is a Swiss company that manufactures hardware and software digital security and convergent media systems for the delivery of digital and interactive content. Its technologies are used in services and applications requiring access control and digital rights management for the monetization of digital media by content owners and service providers for digital television and interactive applications across broadcast, broadband and mobile delivery networks. The Kudelski Group is also involved in the area of access control and management of people or vehicles to sites and events. It additionally offers professional recorders and high-end hi-fi products. The Kudelski Group is headquartered in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne. It operates in five continents and employs about 3800 people. Its services and content protection technologies are used by more than 120 leading pay-TV operators around the world securing content delivered to more than 133 million active smart cards and devices. Its products have been integrated into more than 150 million devices, enabling advanced user interfaces, video-on-demand, personal video recording, advanced advertising and a variety of enhanced television applications (end of 2010).
The company's first successful product was the Nagra tape recorder, developed by Polish researcher Stefan Kudelski. In 1991, his son André Kudelski succeeded him as chairman of the board and chief executive officer (CEO).
1951
Creation of the company by Stefan Kudelski and launch of the first portable recorder, the Nagra I
1958
Release of the Nagra III, the legendary radio, TV and cinema recorder
1965
US Agencies start using the miniature NAGRA SN secretly. Worldwide expansion from 1974.
1983
Joint project-venture with Ampex (US) and launch of the AMPEX-NAGRA VPR-5, the world’s smallest, lightest professional portable C-format video recorder
1989
Canal+ adopts Kudelski’s access control system for pay television
1991
André Kudelski succeeds Stefan Kudelski as chairman and chief executive officer
First million analog decoders sold; conditional access TV systems become Kudelski’s core business
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