Softel is an expert in TV and video broadcasting technology, including: - Subtitling and Captioning - Interactive TV - Second Screen - Headend Components - Video and Audio Description - Ancillary Data Processing - Teletext Softel Swift™ range of feature-rich subtitling and closed captioning products enable the creation, repurposing, encoding, transcoding, insertion and transmission of subtitles and closed captions in a wide array of file formats whilst increasing reliability and productivity. Softel is a global expert in interactive TV. Its versatile MediaSphere™ platform offers an array of interactive TV technologies, including second screen, connected TV and iTV playout solutions as well as headend components. MediaSphere Bridge, Softel's second screen platform, lets broadcasters and operators drive second screen experiences and retain viewers' attention while providing them two way interaction between their TV and tablet or smart phone. Softel is trusted by the most prestigious programmers and operators across the world, such as Arqiva, BBC, ESPN, ITV, MTV, QVC, RAI, RTE, Shaw, Showtime, Sky, Starz, Technicolor, TF6, Time Warner Cable, Turner Broadcasting, TV Azteca, TV NZ and Zee TV. Softel has offices in Pangbourne (UK), Auckland (New Zealand) and in the New York metro (USA) and has been acquired by Miranda Technologies. a Belden Brand, in January 2013.