OPTICOM

OPTICOM was founded by it's CEO Dipl.-Ing. Michael Keyhl in 1995 as a "spin-off" company of the Fraunhofer-Institute, which is not only Germany's leading organization for applied research, but in fact better known today as 'the home of MP3' - the most successful audio compression format for the Internet... OPTICOM, a pioneer in perceptual quality testing technology: Perceptual modeling was driven by the work of Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg and Fraunhofer, the home of MP3. In the course of the early MP3 development, the need for perception based audio quality testing tools started back in 1987. Only two years later, Fraunhofer scientists presented the first perceptual quality analyzer: the Noise-to-Mask Ratio tester (NMR). Today, this work represents the roots of OPTICOM, and OPTICOM's developers benefit from their broad experience of almost 15 years in the research and development of perceptual based coding and evaluation techniques... Under the mission statement "Optimum Quality for..

Also known as: OPTICOM GmbH

Registration numbers: HRB 7169 (W)

VAT numbers: DE 194 631 268

Primary location: Erlangen Germany