On2 Fast Facts

Since 1992, On2 Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ONT) has been innovating advanced video compression technologies, contributing to some of the most pioneering video products and services from leading global brands and cutting-edge startups in web video, social networking, gaming, mobile & wireless, video conferencing and consumer electronic devices.

Founded
Founded as The Duck Corporation, On2 originally developed and marketed video compression technology that enabled developers of video games and multimedia presentations to convert analog video to digital video and to compress the file for storage and playback.

Incorporated
1992

Stock Symbol
ONT (NYSE Amex)

In June of 1999, On2 Technologies started trading on the American Stock Exchange after the Duck Corporation merged with a publicly traded company.

Office Locations

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Leadership
Matthew C. Frost - Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer>
Tim Reusing - General Counsel, Executive Vice President, Corporate & Business Development and Secretary
James Bankoski - Senior Vice President of Core Technologies and Chief Technology Officer
Paul Wilkins - Senior Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer
Wayne Boomer - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
J. Allen Kosowsky -Chairman of the Board of Directors
Thomas Weigman - Director
Mike Kopetski - Director
Mike Alfant - Director
Afsaneh Naimollah - Director
James Meyer - Director

Employees
60+ (2009)

Major Acquisitions
Meta Visual Creations, LTD., 1999
Hantro Products, Oy, 2007

Industry Recognition
2006 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award for Advanced Video Compression

Market Presence
More than two billion deployments through Adobe Flash Player, Skype 2.0, Sun JavaFX, AOL AIM Triton, Nokia, and other customers.

Major Customers

On2's technologies range from low level software and SDKs to system level solutions for major industry formats.

Proprietary Video compression - On2 Video codecs lead the industry in efficiency, quality and bandwidth utilization and are the de facto Internet standard for web and VoIP video.

Encoding and Publishing Solutions – On2's Flix product family consists of Software based encoders and SDKs for building video applications for desktop, server and browser based applications. On2 Flix is a leading product line of video encoders used as standalone applications or integrated into video production workflows for Adobe Flash Player and Sun JavaFX. Flix customers include consumers, major media companies, Web 2.0 and social networking websites, enterprises, and carriers.

Embedded Video – On2's Hantro™ products lead the industry in extremely low power implementations of codecs for devices based on number of deployments and customer base. Fully optimized to provide quality video at the lowest power requirements, On2 Video VPx™ and standards based codecs (H.264, H.263, VC-1 and MPEG-4) implemented as SDKs and RTL (Hardware IP) for wireless semiconductor and device manufacturers, and deployed in more than 200 million handsets and proven in silicon through over 25 leading semiconductor companies.

Advanced Video Applications - On2's Hantro products deliver advanced video application solutions to ensure the video experience for critical device applications by enhancing quality with advanced pre- and post-processing applications. Targeting mobile and handheld devices where bandwidth and power are at their most constrained, On2 provides solutions for camera stabilization, cropping, scaling, masking, dithering, de-interlacing and color space conversion.

Flagship Products

Encoding and Publishing Solutions
Flix Cloud - On-demand video transcoding in Amazon EC2 powered by On2 Flix Engine
Flix Engine - The industry's leading server side encoding platform for Adobe Flash Player video used by the majority of leading video web sites, user generated content sites and social networking sites.
Flix Pro - A leading desktop application for consumers and professionals to create professional quality video for Adobe Flash Player.

Video Compression
On2 VP6 Codec - The de facto Internet video standard through inclusion in Adobe's Flash video. Licensed by Adobe for Flash Player, and now for Adobe Flash Lite 3 for mobile phones. VP6 is also used by Sun JavaFX as the cross-platform video format, and by Vividas to provide high quality full screen video for the web.
On2 VP7 Codec - Recognized by the 2006 Frost and Sullivan Innovations Award as the most advanced video compression scheme, VP7 is used by Skype 2.0, AOL AIM, Move Networks, Triton, Viewpoint Media Player, and Tencent Messenger/QQ, among others.
On2 VP8 Codec - the next generation of On2 Video, announced in September 2008.

Embedded Video
Series 6000 and 7000 - On2's Hantro 6000 and 7000 series multiformat encoders and decoders are specifically designed for software and hardware based mobile implementations, combining high performance and error resilience with low power consumption and CPU load from standard to high definition video for H.263, H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1 and JPEG.
8300-MME Multimedia Application Development Platform – the 8300-MME is a multimedia engine to enable fast implementation of embedded multimedia applications for devices.

Video Systems Solutions
On2 TrueMobile System - The On2 TrueMobile solution is an end to end mobile video system designed to reach the largest number of handsets across the most networks including 2.5G, Edge, 3G and 4G networks through efficient compression, streaming and playback using On2 VP7 technology.