Professional video equipment, engineered and supported from Germany.
IRENIS GmbH develops and supplies BLANKOM DVB and IPTV headend systems, IP encoders and streamers, gateways, decoders, and RF and fiber distribution. From Nordstemmen, near Hanover, we serve customers directly in Europe and worldwide through distributors and technical support partners.
- Company
- IRENIS GmbH
- Location
- Nordstemmen, Germany
- Brands
- BLANKOM® and IRENIS®
- Heritage
- BLANKOM roots since 1919
- Ownership
- BLANKOM brand acquired by IRENIS in 2017
Built for networks that run 24/7
Our equipment is specified by integrators and operators who need predictable, long-life hardware and a direct line to the engineers who built it.
System integrators & OEM
Web UI, remote management and project engineering support.
Integrators & OEM →Broadcasters
SRT contribution, monitoring and DVB/IP workflows.
Broadcast & contribution →IPTV & TV distribution
Linear IPTV, DVB-C and DVB-T for hotels, ships, campuses and CATV.
IPTV & TV distribution →Defence & ISR
Low-latency video from sensors and platforms to command centres.
Defence & ISR →Public safety & fire
Live incident video for control rooms over any IP link.
Public safety →Industrial & machine vision
Camera video into IP workflows for inspection and process control.
Industrial →From signal acquisition to IP and RF delivery
Four areas of activity, one engineering team.
DVB and IPTV headend systems
Reception, modulation, conversion, aggregation and distribution of TV signals in SD, HD and UHD, from DVB-S2 receivers, encoders and multiplexers to QAM modulators. Compact, remotely managed units keep rack space and operating costs low.
IPTV headend products →IP encoding, streaming and decoding
Video encoders and IP streamers, DVB to IP and IP to IP gateways, IP transcoders, IP decoders and STBs, and SRT devices for contribution over public networks. Headend multiswitches and satellite-over-fiber units complete the signal chain.
Encoders & streamers →System design and engineering
Headend design for enterprise IPTV on LAN and WAN, OTT platforms for small and mid-sized operators, and video-over-IP applications. Our group companies have worked in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the CIS since 1988.
Engineering Guide series →Cables and connectivity
Broadcast-grade audio, video and Ethernet data cables for IPTV and stage applications, also available OEM-branded.
Building multiswitches and multimedia patch cords are sold through our stocking distributors only.
Professional cable solutions →Our design philosophy has not changed: long life, maximum reliability, excellent price/performance ratio.
More than a century of communications engineering
BLANKOM traces its origins to an electrical engineering works founded in Königsee, Thuringia, in 1919. It later became the antenna and communications plant in Bad Blankenburg, which gave the brand its name.
In 2017 IRENIS GmbH acquired the BLANKOM® brand with all rights and continues its development in Lower Saxony.
Read the full history →- 1919Hermann Pawlik – Elektrotechnische Fabrik Heliogen founded in Königsee, Thuringia
- 1950Plant becomes RFT – VEB Fernmeldewerk Bad Blankenburg
- 1961Renamed VEB Antennenwerke Bad Blankenburg
- 1990Privatised as a communications and antenna technology company
- 2017IRENIS GmbH acquires the BLANKOM® brand with all rights
Company questions
Who owns the BLANKOM brand?
IRENIS GmbH in Nordstemmen, Germany, has owned the BLANKOM® brand with all rights since 2017.
Where are BLANKOM products developed and supported?
Engineering, pre-sales and after-sales support are provided from Germany. International orders ship from our main warehouse in Germany and from distributor warehouses in Turkey and China.
Do you sell directly?
Headend and IP video equipment is sold directly in Europe and through distributors and technical support partners worldwide. Cables, building multiswitches and patch cords are sold through distributors only.
How do I get a quotation?
Send your requirements through the quote form or by e-mail: product, quantity and intended application. Our engineers review every request and reply as soon as possible.
Engineers answer your enquiry.
Our customers work across every time zone, so we handle enquiries in writing. Tell us the product, quantity and application – channel count, input sources, output formats and network – and you get a qualified answer, not a callback.
Hauptstr. 29 · 31171 Nordstemmen · Germany
[email protected]
www.irenis-blankom.com – worldwide
www.blankom.de – Germany & EU
