Voice & Video Engine Driving Mass Distribution of Telecom Multimedia Applications to be Demonstrated by Surf Communication Solutions with Companies at GlobalComm2006

Together with various companies in their booths, SURF Communication Solutions® (“Surf”) will be demonstrating its voice and video media processing engine (SurfGenerationTM) at the Globalcomm2006 Expo to be held June 5-7 in Chicago, Illinois. The demonstrations, carried out over AdvancedTCA® and MicroTCATM solutions, utilize Surf’s SurfRider/AMC™ DSP resource boards and media processing enabling technologies, which are based on TI’s TMS320C64x™ DSP generation. The demonstrations will be viewed on wireline and wireless SIP video phones and PDAs, and will illustrate a wide array of video processing capabilities via a video portal menu streamed from the server to the phones, including viewing of movie trailers, message record and playback voice and video conversations and voice and video conferencing.

Demo Overviews
All six demos described below will showcase Surf’s media processing voice and video engine comprised of Surf’s DSP resource boards and comprehensive media processing software capabilities:
 In the Motorola booth (#27031), as part of the Embedded Communications Computing exhibit, two different demonstrations will showcase Surf’s capabilities: one is based on a Motorola ATCA® communications server and the other on a Motorola MicroTCA wireless broadband access proof of concept, both used with the voice and video engine provided on Surf’s AMC DSP resource board.
 In the SBS Technologies booth (#18051), Surf’s AMC DSP resource board with embedded voice and video media processing capabilities is coupled with an SBS Telum™ 624-TEJ with I-TDM & 628 E1/T1 AMC using a MicroTCA Gigabit Ethernet backplane to demonstrate the industry’s first end-to-end AMC-based I-TDM solution for converged networks.
 In the Artesyn Technologies, now a part of Emerson Network Power, booth (#10043) Surf’s AMC DSP resource board powers two separate voice and video conferencing applications that demonstrate the flexibility and upgradeability of Surf’s media processing engine in the Artesyn environment. The first runs on Artesyn’s Katana®4000, a single slot AdvancedTCA carrier which can accommodate up to four AdvancedMC modules. The second runs on Artesyn’s MicroTCA chassis, utilizing Artesyn’s KosaiPM AMC as the host controller for Surf’s AMC DSP resource board.
 In the Kontron booth (#13051), Surf’s AMC DSP resource board and media processing engine transform Kontron’s AT8400 ATCA carrier into a single-blade, high-capacity voice gateway.

Surf’s AMC DSP Resource Board Used in Two Demos in Motorola Booth
Surf’s AMC form factor DSP resource board runs the voice and video telecom applications in two Embedded Communications Computing demos located in the Motorola booth (#27031). One demonstration utilizes the Motorola Centellis 3000 series ATCA communications server including CPU, GbEthernet interfaces and DSP capabilities using a mix of ATCA/AMC boards. An additional demo system in Motorola’s booth is a MicroTCA system based on DSP, CPU, GbEthernet and HardDrive AMC modules.

Industry’s First End-to-End AMC-based I-TDM Solution Demonstrated in SBS Booth
Surf has partnered with SBS Technologies® (NASDAQ: SBSE) to provide the industry’s first end-to-end AMC-based I-TDM solution for building next-generation convergent (voice, video, data) media gateways. A converged audio/video conference will be demonstrated in the SBS booth (#18051). This conference will show two analog audio streams delivered through the T1 ports on the SBS Telum 624 T1/E1 AMC and converted to I-TDM streams over a MicroTCA Gigabit Ethernet backplane. The video conference uses an SBS ASLP10 processor AMC with 1GByte memory as the video server host using an Ethernet interface to transfer the video RTP streams through a switch to the SurfRider/AMC resource board located on the backplane. All audio and video processing for the converged conference is performed on the SurfRider/AMC, using a single DSP for processing multiple calls. For more information about SBS Technologies, visit the company Web site at www.sbs.com.

Flexibility and Upgradeability Accommodate High-Density Multimedia Server Applications in Artesyn Booth
The demonstration platform in the Artesyn booth (#10043) combines the flexibility of Artesyn’s Katana®4000 AdvancedTCA blade with the media processing power of Surf’s SurfRider/AMC DSP resource board. The KAT4000 is a single slot ATCA carrier which can accommodate up to four AMC modules, such as SurfRider/AMC boards, providing up to 32 Texas Instruments TM320C64x™ DSPs on a single AdvancedTCA blade. In this demo, a video portal application is demonstrated, which enables connection between wireless and wireline devices located on different IP networks. Components of the demonstration include conferencing between multiple participants, streaming and recording of video files, and playback of recorded messages for video mail applications. This turnkey integrated platform is ideal for applications that need to deliver audio, video, fax and modem data over IP networks, such as media/content servers, as well as video mail and video messaging servers.

World-Class Densities on a Single-Blade Voice Gateway on Display in Kontron Booth
Kontron’s AT8400 carrier board is a PICMG 3.0 and 3.1 compliant node board for AdvancedTCA shelves, supporting four full height / single width AdvancedMC slots. When coupled with Surf’s AMC DSP resource boards, the AT8400 is transformed into single-blade gateway providing superior densities over converged networks (see it in booth #13051).





Key Features to be Illustrated During the On-going Demonstrations
• IP-to-IP gateway connecting WiFi and LAN networks
• Real-time audio transcoding from G.711 to G.729
• Multiple call handling (audio, video) simultaneously by a single DSP
• Voice conferencing between two G.711 terminals, two G.729 streams and two PSTN phones
• Streaming/recording of files from/to Host file system to/from mobile PDAs and video IP phones
• Resizing, logo insertion and background insertion in the video portal menus
• Real-time video transcoding from MPEG-4 to H.263
• Frame rate adaptation of content (streamed and real-time) from 30 FPS to 15 FPS on the IP terminals and 10 FPS on the mobile terminals
• Logo insertion in the streamed movies
• Video conferencing between four participants: two connected to the IP network, and two streamed files from the Host file system
Surf’s products are optimized for media gateway applications and media server/CTI/ messaging/ streaming/ recording/ conferencing applications. Audio and video streaming capabilities as well as audio and video mixing capabilities (including dominant speaker detection) are also supported. These solutions are provided on a variety of platforms: AMC/PTMC DSP farms as well as PCI cards and DSP chip-level. In addition, Surf has cooperation agreements with leading cPCI, ATCA and MicroTCA manufacturers to provide an integrated solution of Surf’s AMC/PTMC mezzanine cards mounted on cPCI, ATCA and MicroTCA carriers.
Surf’s approach is unique, since all other solutions separate audio and video processing and run them on different DSPs/sub-systems, or divide the processing between the host and the DSP. Running them together makes the solution more effective (cost, quality and performance-wise) since it enables dynamic (during run-time) modification of the channel to support audio applications now, and audio+video later.