Headquartered in France, AETA is one of the leading companies in the market operating worldwide in the field of audio systems, portable audio recorders, mixers and advanced audio codecs. Its infrastructure was established to meet all types of data transfer used in media. AETA, one of the founding partners of the team that discovered Audio over IP, leads the world's manufacturers in carrying data over IP in EBU standards. Apart from ENG products, AAS (AETA Audio Systems) is known for its wide range of codecs. These codecs use PSTN, ISDN, GSM, Inmarsat and IP protocols to transmit broadcast quality sound from one remote point to another. Codecs compress the sound through these protocols, encode it, transmit it over different networks, and analyze the encoded sound.