Agora: Cloud Service Company Focused on Real-Time Audio and Video 168

Agora was founded in 2013 by Zhao Bin. It is a cloud service company specializing in real-time audio and video technology, providing the world's leading real-time audio and video API services. Agora's technology enables developers to quickly build a variety of real-time interactive scenarios in their applications, such as voice calls, video calls, and interactive live streaming.

Agora Services:

Leveraging its powerful cloud technology, Agora delivers high-quality audio and video communication services to users worldwide, featuring global coverage, low latency, and high stability. Its services span multiple industries, including social live streaming, online education, enterprise collaboration, healthcare, and gaming, supporting over 100 different application scenarios. Companies such as Xiaomi, Momo, Douyin, New Oriental, VIPKID, and TAL Education Group are all using Agora's services.

Agora Core Products:

• Real-time Audio and Video RTC: Developers can achieve high-quality audio and video calls through simple API calls.

• Interactive Live Streaming: Supports simultaneous multi-user online interaction, suitable for online education and live streaming scenarios.

• Real-time Messaging: Provides instant communication features to enhance user interactive experiences.

Agora Advantages:

Full-stack RTE Product and Solution System: Real-time interaction foundational capabilities, extension capabilities, low-code application platform, and solutions, offering a rich range of products in tiers; multiple deployment methods including PaaS, aPaaS, SaaS, and private deployment to meet customers with different development capabilities and customization needs.

Massive Plugins to Meet Various Scenario Needs: A vast RTE cloud marketplace with plugins including video effects, audio effects, natural language processing, content copyrighting, and content moderation. Ready to use out of the box, maximizing cost savings for customers.

Full Interactive Capability Coverage to Meet All Interaction and Latency Level Requirements: From less than 100ms to greater than 3000ms latency, different latency tiers mean different interaction experiences and product focal points. We provide products and solutions across different latency tiers to meet a rich variety of application scenarios, helping customers strike a balance between cost and user experience.

Efficiently Empowering Businesses to Go Global: Based on SD-RTN™ (Software Defined Real-time Network), services cover over 200 countries and regions, with specific network optimization for Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North America, and small-to-medium cities in China. Helping customers quickly replicate mature domestic scenarios in overseas markets.

8 Years Without Network-Wide Incidents: 8 consecutive years without network-wide incidents, with annual availability as high as 99.99%, 8 consecutive years without network-wide incidents. Highly elastic and scalable network architecture providing telecom-grade disaster recovery mechanisms, validated by tens of thousands of enterprise users.

Agora is the pioneer and leader in global real-time interactive cloud services. Developers only need to make simple calls to Agora's API to build various real-time audio and video interactive scenarios within their applications. Agora's API has empowered over 20 industry tracks, including social live streaming, education, gaming and esports, IoT, AR/VR, finance, insurance, healthcare, and enterprise collaboration, covering more than 200 scenarios in total.

Agora's parent company was listed on the NASDAQ in the United States on June 26, 2020, with the stock ticker symbol "API". Agora's services are not limited to audio and video calls and live streaming, but also include multiple APIs for real-time recording, real-time messaging, and real-time stream acceleration, helping developers build diverse real-time interactive scenarios.

In addition, Agora has deployed nearly a hundred data centers and nearly a thousand servers globally, ensuring the quality of real-time data transmission across continents, countries, and telecom networks. Its revenue model is primarily charging enterprise customers, with a standard rate of $0.99 per 1,000 minutes, and a unified pricing policy both domestically and internationally, offering high cost-effectiveness.