Riedel Communications announced that it has expanded the company’s new R&D hub in Vienna and has also ramped up its capacity to drive technical development, particularly with respect to IP technology.
The expansion doubles the size of Riedel’s Vienna offices, which neighbor the Euro Plaza technology park, enabling further growth of the company’s development team and more robust support for customers across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
“The team at our Vienna R&D hub has the talent and creativity to deliver products with forward-looking functionality that has the power to transform the broadcast and event industry,” says Gernot Butschek, Head of Development at Riedel’s Vienna location. “As the broadcast industry undergoes major disruptive change with the transition to IP-based transport of media signals, our R&D team meets that challenge with innovation.”
Riedel’s Vienna team is responsible for front- and back-end development, automated test software, FPGA programming, PCB layout, and mechanical design. Specialists in the fiber transport, video processing, and wireless communications technologies at the heart of the company’s Artist, Bolero, and MediorNet product lines.
In significantly expanding its Vienna facilities, originally designed to accommodate up to 55 developers and engineers, Riedel is not only hiring additional software developers and boosting its R&D capabilities, but also committing added resources to the company’s customer base across CEE. Due to concurrent restructuring and process optimization projects, Riedel also has increased the capacity of its rental and managed technology business to take on special projects of any size and degree of complexity.
The R&D hub is part of a larger Riedel Austria facility that offers an additional 120 square meters of space for the preparation of installations and managed technology projects. The facility also includes a 100-square-meter warehouse to support the company’s rental business, offering the company’s entire product line to customers in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the Balkans, Greece, and Austria.
“Our offices are well-situated for our growing development team, and they serve as a convenient base for supporting increasing customer activity across CEE markets,” states Jürgen Diniz-Malleck, Riedel general manager for Austria and CEE. “This is an exciting period of growth for Riedel, and I look forward to seeing the impact of this investment on the Riedel product line and in the success of Riedel customers.”
