Haivision — Company Profile
Overview. Haivision Systems Inc. (TSX: HAI; OTC: HAIVF) is a publicly traded Canadian company founded in April 2004 by Miroslav "Mirko" Wicha, who remains Chairman, President and CEO. It is headquartered in Montreal, with a second principal location in Chicago and sales/support offices across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. It listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in December 2020. Public sources put headcount at roughly 375–392 employees and fiscal 2025 revenue at about C$137.6 million, with a market capitalization in the C$120 million / US$85 million range. Ownership is widely held; the company is not a subsidiary.
Operations. Haivision is an operating company that supplies real-time, low-latency video networking and visual collaboration hardware, software and cloud services. Product lines include the Makito encoder/decoder series, the KB series of H.264/HEVC encoders and transcoders, Falkon 5G mobile video transmitters, Kraken transcoders (including the AI-accelerated Kraken X1/X1 Rugged), the Kobra video operations platform, the Haivision Media Platform (HMP) enterprise video platform, Command 360 video-wall and operations-center systems, Intelligence 360 ISR offerings, and cloud services such as Haivision Hub and Haivision Connect. The company developed and open-sourced the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) streaming protocol and founded the SRT Alliance. Customers span broadcast/media, enterprise, government and defense.
Litigation posture. The tracked data shows zero cases filed by Haivision and one case as a defendant, making it a pure operating-company defendant rather than an NPE or a two-way litigant. The single tracked matter is the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation proceeding Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Hulu et al., in which Haivision was named as a co-defendant. Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC is a patent-assertion entity that acquired a data-compression portfolio (U.S. patents including 7,386,046; 8,867,610; 8,934,535; 9,762,907; 9,769,477 and others) and sued numerous streaming, consumer-electronics and software companies in parallel actions.
Case context. The underlying Haivision suit, Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Haivision Network Video Inc., No. 1:17-cv-01520, was filed in the District of Delaware in October 2017 and named both Haivision Network Video Inc. and Haivision KB Inc. It was one of roughly a dozen related Realtime actions that the JPML declined to centralize in MDL No. 2845 (August 2018), citing defendant-specific infringement issues. Several of Realtime's asserted patents were subsequently invalidated in related proceedings, and Realtime drew a Federal Circuit attorney-fees appeal against DISH/Sling TV.