as six kud industry digital tv public access founded 1951 headquarters cheseaux sur lausanne switzerland key people andr kudelski ceo number of employees 3500 website nagra.com product of skidata subsidiary the kudelski group six kud.s is a swiss company that manufactures hardware and software digital security and convergent media systems for the delivery of digital and interactive content . its technologies are used in services and applications requiring access control and digital rights management for the monetization of digital media by content owners and service providers for digital television and interactive applications across broadcast broadband and mobile delivery networks . the kudelski group is also involved in the area of access control and management of people or vehicles to sites and events . it additionally offers professional recorders and high end hi fi products . the kudelski group is headquartered in cheseaux sur lausanne . it operates in five continents and employs about 3500 people . its services and content protection technologies are used by more than 120 leading pay tv operators around the world securing content delivered to more than 133 million active smart cards and devices . citation needed its products have been integrated into more than 150 million devices enabling advanced user interfaces video on demand personal video recording advanced advertising and a variety of enhanced television applications end of 2010 . citation needed the company s first successful product was the nagra tape recorder developed by polish researcher stefan kudelski . in 1991 his son andr kudelski succeeded him as chairman of the board and chief executive officer ceo . subsidiaries edit skidata headquartered in austria manufactures access control systems and software for their management . skidata provides turnstiles admission ticketing electronic ticketing systems boom barriers and other pedestrian and vehicular access control devices to ski resorts parking lots amusement parks shopping malls airports and municipalities among others . nagravision is a developer of conditional access systems for cable and satellite television and a number of other companies involved in the audio internet security digital television public access and smart card industries . opentv is a software company for interactive and digital television . its primary business is the sale of set top box operating systems and software as well as digital advertising products . external links edit kudelski group company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kudelski group & oldid 744156724 categories television companiestechnology companies established in 1991technology companies of switzerland1991 establishments in switzerlandhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages asturianudeutschespa olfran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 13 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view