Streambox

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Streambox is a U.S.-based company that manufactures and sells encoders and decoders primarily for the broadcast and cable industry. Based in Seattle, Washington, the company developed its own compression engine called ACT-L3 (Advanced Coding Technology - Level 3), a third-generation of the codec which provides better compression than the standard MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 technologies found in most other similar products. In addition, a suite of advanced networking features comprise the ACT-L3 codec, including a highly robust Forward Error Correction (FEC) scheme, packet rate shaping, and buffered variable bit rate encoding.