IP Unity Selects Surf Communication Solutions’ DSP Resource Boards for IMS Video Applications

IP Unity, the leader in carrier–grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications, has teamed with Surf Communication Solutions (“Surf”), a leading provider of high-capacity multimedia processing boards for the telecommunication infrastructure field, to deliver advanced video functionality in applications such as video messaging and video conferencing.

IP Unity’s industry-leading, IMS-ready Mereon® 6000 Media Server and Mereon Application Server are being paired with Surf’s ATCA-ready SurfRider-812™/PTMC resource board, supporting eight TI C6412 DSPs, and SurfStream™ media processing framework to enhance the delivery of diverse video communications signals from one end device or network to another, enhancing many emerging multimedia applications for converging networks.

IP Unity is bringing feature rich, flexible, and user-friendly carrier-grade video messaging and video conferencing applications to market this year, as part of its ongoing strategy to equip carriers and enterprises with unified communications and IMS-ready solutions. The company’s strategy includes the delivery of IMS functions, delivery of H.263/MPEG-4/H.264 signals and video quality enhancements.

“Surf is advancing the convergence of voice and video processing on and across 3G and IP networks,” stated Keith Bhatia, CTO and senior vice president of business development, IP Unity. “We are integrating Surf’s products into our solutions, to ensure reduced time-to-market, deliver the highest video quality, processing density and speed, and enable some of the hottest applications demanded by the market.”

“IP Unity has a great vision for converged multimedia applications, and a very powerful set of integrated video solutions,” emphasized Surf VP Sales Doron Hendler. “By using our SurfStream and SurfRider products, IP Unity is taking advantage of the best, most future-proofed signal processing technology and our advanced development framework for scalable media transport, transcoding, streaming and conferencing functions.”