Grass Valley (company)

Grass Valley (company)

Grass Valley is a privately held company based in San Francisco, and originally founded in Grass Valley, California. It develops and produces technology and services for the video and broadcast industry, with a broad offering of "glass to glass" solutions for live video production, news and playout. Grass Valley is a global industry leader, 9 out of 10 broadcasters in the world use Grass Valley. Grass Valley's industry leading end to end video files architecture is called Stratus, an opened SOA software suite that manages video contents from glass (camera) to glass (television or IP connected device). The company also offers six families of products dedicated to high quality video production and playout: cameras, switchers, routers, storage, editors, and automated playout. It is the only company with such a complete end to end offering to the broadcast market. It operates with direct sales and services operations around the world, and spends more than 15% of its revenue in R&D (half of its employers are development and service engineers).