AS Levira is a digital services provider and a technology partner to companies whose business depends on technologies and who wish to involve a professional service provider that can offer the necessary infrastructure solutions.
We are an important component in the “bloodstream” of the digitizing society, offering smart media solutions, IT services and the Internet of Things. Our goal is to be in the forefront of innovation. With the help of technologies, we wish to make life more comfortable and help companies digitise their business to be even more successful.
Levira is one of the biggest independent TV playout centres in Northern Europe and the leading broadcast transmission provider in Estonia. We help local and international media companies to design TV channels and ensure that the programs are on air 24/7 and 365 days a year. We transmit programs to viewers in the Baltic States, Scandinavia and Europe as well as Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
In the TV production segment, we are active players in the Baltic and Scandinavian markets and the market leader in Latvia, while also providing services to the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE and Nordic Business Forum. Levira owns three OB vehicles and a drone for TV production.
We operate a terrestrial digital TV network in Estonia, used by around 250,000–280,000 people all over the country. The majority of local radio channels are transmitted through Levira’s towers. In the media services segment, Levira cooperates closely with all its TV clients, offering them various innovative solutions from TV production to media management and archiving.
Our presence is visible all over Estonia, as we run a network of 22 transmitter towers, including Tallinn TV Tower, Koeru and Valgjärve, to name the three highest ones. Valgjärve tower with its 347 meters is also the highest facility above sea level in Estonia. We manage Tallinn TV Tower, one of the most popular local tourist attractions, through a separate foundation. Our transmitter towers are resistant to weather and power outages, and are used by multiple companies for installing their high-reliability transmitters and antennas.
In the data centre and IT services segment, we are one of the fastest growing service providers in the region. Levira’s data centre is located in the basement of Tallinn TV Tower and comprises around 1,000 m². The servers are surrounded by 25,000 tons of concrete and equipped with state-of-the-art security and access systems. We offer our clients turnkey infrastructure solutions, including infrastructure management.
Levira invested considerably in designing IoT solutions and services in 2017 and has a very good technical basis for providing IoT services to various service sector companies. In cooperation with its partners, Levira operates a flexible and scalable service platform for its clients as well as a wide variety of communication technologies (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, mobile data). The majority of customer contracts in 2017 consisted of remote meter-reading solutions.
We appreciate innovation, continuity and creativity, and we design agile solutions together with our clients. We value strong partnerships which is the foundation of trust.
Our clients are regional and international IT companies and TV stations, including Sony, MTG, EBU, ERR, Discovery, ATEA, Telia, Tele2, Elisa and TV3.
Levira has two shareholders: the Republic of Estonia (51%) and the French telecom and broadcasting company TDF (49%). Through the latter, Levira is part of a leading European group that provides electronic communications infrastructure and multimedia services.
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