List of products by brand Teradek

Teradek was established in 2008 in Irvine, California, by engineer-entrepreneur Nicolaas Verheem, and has grown from a two-person R&D lab into the wireless video cornerstone of Videndum’s Creative Solutions division after its 2013 acquisition for USD 30 million. Early innovations such as the Cube H.264 encoder broke the tether between camera and control-room, but global recognition arrived with the Emmy- and Academy-honoured Bolt platform-–-a sub-millisecond 1080p transmitter that set the latency standard long before the current 4 K era. Today the brand’s design ethos remains unchanged: craft rugged, RF-optimised tools that carry uncompressed, colour-critical video through the most hostile spectral environments without perceptible delay.

In 2025 the flagship Bolt 6 family pushes that philosophy into the newly-opened U-NII-5 spectrum, adding twelve interference-free 6 GHz channels to the traditional 5 GHz band. Each Bolt 6 LT, XT and MAX unit streams 10-bit 4:2:2 4 K HDR at < 0.01 ms glass-to-glass latency, with 256-bit AES encryption, RSA-1024 key exchange, and app-based pairing. Operating range tops out at 5 000 ft / 1 524 m line-of-sight, while directional array antennas and dual-diversity reception maintain phase integrity in congested arenas. For ENG teams that need longer hops or licensed-band resilience, Ranger 6 employs the same zero-delay silicon across both unlicensed and Part-74 channels, sustaining visually-lossless imagery up to 1 524 m with < 1 ms delay—ideal for drone RF hand-offs, Steadicam walk-offs, and stadium-span roving. These RF systems inherit Teradek’s adaptive frequency-hopping logic, dynamic power scaling, and spectral analysis tools, allowing DITs to verify constellation health from the Bolt Manager mobile UI or via REST hooks into on-set network dashboards.

Where field mobility outruns fixed microwave links, Prism Mobile 5G bonds two internal sub-6 GHz modems (plus one external Node port) and pushes 4 K 60 p HEVC at a sustained 20 Mb s⁻¹ while recording a 10-bit B-frame backup to SD or NFS storage. The camera-back chassis weighs just 864 g including V- or Gold-mount plate, draws < 18 W, and rides Core Cloud’s Teradek Reliable Transport (TRT) protocol for ~100 ms WAN latency. For collaborative monitoring, the Serv 4K encoder delivers simultaneous local 45 Mb s⁻¹ H.265 multicasts and public-cloud relays with DCI-P3 PQ-2084 accuracy, multicast to 20+ iOS/Android endpoints or into Frame.io Camera-to-Cloud without extra hardware. A re-engineered cooling tunnel and D-pad menu keys make the 2024 revision silent in near-field audio environments while maintaining full 4 K 60 p throughput.

Beyond individual devices, Teradek’s ecosystem differentiates itself through tight horizontal integration. Bolt, Ranger, Prism and Serv units authenticate through the same Core DNS, enabling return-video, tally and IFB metadata on a unified IPv6 fabric. Link AX Wi-Fi 6 routers provide 3 Gbit s⁻¹ backhaul and IEEE-802.1X segmentation; the Core portal offers frame-accurate transcoding presets, geo-fencing, and per-stream SLA logging—critical for EMEA broadcasters under DPP Tier 2 security mandates. Every hardware chassis is milled from aviation-grade aluminium, IP51-rated, and certified for CE, UKCA and FCC-Part 74. Firmware is signed with NIST-compliant SHA-256 hashes, while device telemetry feeds Prometheus exporters for fleet observability. Together, these measures give production engineers measurable resilience, deterministic colourimetry, and the shortest RF path currently attainable on an untethered set.