SOFIA DIGITAL

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ABOUT SOFIA DIGITAL

Sofia Digital is an international high-tech company based in Tampere, Finland, with over 20 years of history delivering services for TV screens and interactive smart devices. The company specializes in media technologies, broadcasting and streaming services using TV standards and Internet technologies. 

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Sofia Digital is an international high-tech company based in Tampere, Finland, with over 20 years of history delivering services for TV screens and interactive smart devices. The company specializes in media technologies, broadcasting and streaming services using TV standards and Internet technologies. 

Sofia Digital’s typical projects consist of development and hosting of new TV and Video services, made available both in broadcast and broadband – and can support both hosted and on-premises service models. Since the company was founded in the year 2000, various deployments and projects have been successfully delivered in Europe, Africa, North and South America, Middle East and South-East Asia where especially Asia and Europe are growing regions during the year 2020.

The Sofia Backstage® Platform is a software-based product family available for powering smart TV and linear TV services in the TV network operator’s head-end and online environments. Sofia Backstage® helps customers to manage and aggregate any electronic formats of Television and TV-programming metadata including support for the latest interactive TV standard HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV).

Sofia Digital is working in co-operation with the TV and media industry, online technology companies and CE manufacturers. As an active member of the HbbTV Association, Sofia Digital is able to provide the best possible level of interoperability for HbbTV and MPEG-DASH deployed in global TV markets.

Our Key Players

Ari Pöyhtäri

CEO, Co-Founder

Responsible for the overall management, strategy and business development. One of the Co-founders.

Erkki Salminen

Chief Business Development Officer

Responsible for business development especially through recruitment and personnel development.

Janne Riihimäki

Director of Service Design

Responsible for UX-design lead and building the best user experiences for the end users. Also involved in marketing operations.

Juha Joki

Director, Broadcast and Testing

In charge of DVB Broadcast products and testing and certification services.

Juho Mäyränpää

Sales Director

In charge of sales, distribution, product packaging and marketing operations.

Mika Kanerva

COO, Executive Vice President

Responsible for ongoing business, operations and R&D. Also one of the Co-founders.

Tommi Riikonen

Product Line Manager

Responsible for Sofia Backstage® Studio and Sofia Backstage® Author.

We come from finland

Finland in the late ‘90s was a real hotbed of exciting new innovations. Digital mobile phones, internet technologies, digital broadcasting… Many pioneering new technologies later affecting billions of lives were developed here from scratch.

In this exciting atmosphere, some of the founders of Sofia Digital met during a common research project about the nascent digital TV broadcasting. It soon developed into a business idea, and Sofia Digital was founded in the year 2000.

Back then, while many device manufacturers were creating their individual solutions, Sofia Digital believed in universal standards and following them. “Sofia” means “wisdom” in Greek, and adhering to standards is a wise thing to do.

PIONEERING KNOWLEDGE

Nowadays, Sofia Digital combines the pioneering knowledge of digital broadcasting and internet technologies with Scandinavian design and usability ideals. This way, our solutions are both functional and pleasant to use.

This Finnish recipe for success has been proven time and time again in every corner of the globe – with very satisfied customers. The way we see it, everyone at Sofia Digital should be proud of the results of their work.

Read blog post: Digital TV Pioneers: Celebrating Sofia Digital’s Journey of Resilience and Innovation 

WHY FINLAND?

For a small country, Finland has been the home of many groundbreaking companies and technological innovations, such as Nokia and Linux. Finland was also one of the first countries to adopt DVB technology, which led to pioneering work with digital TV standards and technologies.

Join our Team!

We are currently recruiting Smart TV developers, apply soon!

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