Surf Communication Solutions and Artesyn Communication Products Partner to Offer Triple-Play Media Gateway and Server Solutions

Surf Communication Solutions and Artesyn Communication Products Partner to Offer Triple-Play Media Gateway and Server Solutions
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Surf Communications Solutions (“Surf”), a leading developer of high-capacity multimedia processing boards for the telecommunication infrastructure field, today announced that it has partnered with Artesyn Communication Products, a subsidiary of Artesyn Technologies (Nasdaq: ATSN), to develop open architecture, Triple-Play (voice, video, and data [fax/modem]) media processing solutions. Surf will combine its PTMC and AdvancedMC DSP farms, based on Texas Instruments’ TMS320C64x™ DSP generation, with Artesyn’s PICMG 2.16 and AdvancedTCA blades to create media gateway and media server subsystems that deliver voice, video, fax and modem over IP, mobile, wireline, and wireless networks.
“Artesyn’s open architecture blades provide an excellent platform for our AdvancedMC and PTMC media processing DSP farms,“ said Amir Zmora, vice president of marketing at Surf. “The resulting integrated solution is a comprehensive ‘hardware and software’, high-availability, high-density infrastructure subsystem for telecom equipment manufacturers, which greatly reduces their time-to-market.”
“Surf’s extensive DSP hardware, software and media processing expertise makes them an ideal partner for creating open architecture, Triple-Play media processing solutions,” said Todd Wynia, vice president of marketing at Artesyn. “Our PICMG 2.16 and AdvancedTCA blades, together with Surf’s AdvancedMC and PTMC media processing DSP farms, will give telecom OEMs an out-of-the-box solution for building a broad range of modular, open architecture media processing gateways and servers that offer Triple-Play capability.”
"Surf is a valuable member of TI's Third Party Program, as they continue to drive innovation by leveraging TI's high-performance C64x™ DSPs to deliver superior media processing solutions," said Danny Petkevich, worldwide C6000 DSP platform marketing manager, TI. “By using TI’s C64x DSPs, Surf’s Triple-Play software solution enables customers to invest in a single architecture that scales from low cost, lower performance applications such as voice access gateways to performance intensive applications like voice/video transcoding and media servers, all while preserving the customer software investment.”