Simultaneous Triple Play Media Processing Capabilities on a Single DSP Announced by Surf Communication Solutions

Surf Communication Solutions, Ltd.®, the leading provider of high capacity MoP(TM) (Media over Packet) enabling technologies, today announced the launch of its line of Triple Play media processing products, which enable developers of Voice and Video infrastructure gateways, CTI applications, Packet-to-Packet applications, and a multitude of other Voice, Video, and Data applications, to provide Triple Play functionality using a single Texas Instruments TMS320C6412(TM) digital signal processor (DSP).
This new technology will revolutionize the way telecommunications infrastructure systems are designed. Currently, there are different systems or sub-systems for each media type. Video systems are comprised of various sub-systems, each handling a different media type. For example: Voice is handled on a TMS320C5x(TM) DSP and Video on a TMS320C64x(TM) DSP, others use host-based processing for one of the media types. This separation of systems results in a variety of drawbacks: systems which are not cost-effective, not scaleable, not balanced, and not synchronized.
In Surf’s new Triple Play media processing products, all three media types can be processed simultaneously on a single DSP, using a single system. This revolutionary approach allows dynamic configuration of the ratio of Voice and Video channels running on each DSP in the system. The result is a cost-effective and scaleable system allowing step-by-step migration from ‘Voice only’, to ‘Voice intensive’ (with just a few Video calls), to a ‘full Voice and Video’ system. This approach allows customers to leverage their investment in both the intellectual property developed and hardware purchased, since the same system will be used with a different number of Voice and Video channels, based on system requirements.
“Surf’s Triple Play enabling technology allows operators to shorten the Triple Play deployment cycle and increase ARPU by bridging their Voice, Video and Data networks,” claims Eyal Zagagi, CEO of Surf Communication Solutions. “It lowers the migration costs for equipment vendors, allowing them to integrate Triple Play solutions into their existing products today, providing them with a more efficient, integrated, Voice and Video media processing platform.”
The new Surf Triple Play media processing products, which utilize the Texas Instruments state-of-the-art TMS320C6412 DSP, provide cost-effective high port density and flexible Voice/Video port assignment. As an integral component of the strategy, Surf’s patent-pending Open Framework design facilitates integration of third-party host applications and shortens time-to-market. It comes complete with built-in diagnostics API.
“Surf has designed a system which takes full advantage of the performance available on the C6412 DSP, which has been optimized to reduce overall system costs and device board space in telecom infrastructure applications,” said Ram Sathappan, DSP Solutions marketing manager, TI. “By leveraging the capabilities of DSPs, Surf is able to offer customers a robust, programmable solution to drive the rapid adoption of Triple Play communications.”
For more information about TI’s C6412 see: www.ti.com/c6412720pr

APPLICATIONS FOR TRIPLE PLAY TECHNOLOGY
Triple Play technology can be used in a variety of products, including Voice and Video gateway applications connecting mobile, broadband IP, wireless, and PSTN networks; CTI Applications, such as Voice, Video, and Fax mail, Interactive Voice/Video Response (IVR) servers, announcement servers, unified messaging servers, and call recording servers for Voice, Video, and Fax; Inter-Working Function (IWF); and Stand-Alone Termination Applications, such as RAS, Conferencing Servers, Voice quality monitoring, and non-intrusive interception and security applications.

MORE ABOUT SURF'S TRIPLE PLAY MEDIA PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
The SurfUP Triple Play Media Processing Framework comprises a media processing solution offering simultaneous support for “Triple Play” convergence—Voice, Video, and Data (Fax/Modem)—all running simultaneously on a single DSP. Featuring the SurfUP patent-pending open DSP framework, it enables customers to integrate user-defined algorithms into the DSP, based on simple and intuitive APIs that interface with Surf’s DSP software. Utilizing Surf's robust and field-hardened enabling technologies, customers can migrate their Voice systems to Triple Play today.

ABOUT SURF COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS
Surf Communication Solutions® is the leading provider of high capacity Triple Play media processing enabling technologies, which are transforming the way telecommunication infrastructure equipment providers design their products. Using their comprehensive transcoding capabilities, Surf’s products greatly shorten time-to-market, are cost-effective, and enable true convergence of all major media types—Voice, Video, and Data (Fax/Modem) —over IP, Mobile, Wireline, and Wireless networks. Surf Communication Solutions is a privately held company, headquartered in Israel with offices in the United States and representatives in Europe and Asia. For more information about Surf Communication Solutions, please visit www.surf-com.com.

ABOUT TEXAS INSTRUMENTS THIRD PARTY PROGRAM
Surf Communication Solutions is a member of the Texas Instruments Third Party Program. The Third Party Program offers the most extensive collection of DSP development support in the industry. More than 650 independent companies and consultants provide products including development boards, operating systems, software algorithms, function libraries and systems consulting services around the world. For more information on the TI Third Party Program, please visit http://www.ti.com/3p.