Voice & Video Engine Driving High Capacity Distribution of Telecom Multimedia Applications to be Demonstrated by Surf Communication Solutions at ATCA Summit
Ongoing demonstrations will showcase Surf’s AMC DSP resource boards as the media processing engine driving high-capacity multimedia server applications
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ATCA Summit 2006, Santa Clara, CA, October 17, 2006 – SURF Communication Solutions (“Surf”), a leading provider of high-capacity multimedia processing boards for the telecommunication infrastructure field, will be demonstrating its voice and video media processing engine in booth #205 at the ATCA Summit to be held October 18-19 in Santa Clara, California. The demonstration utilizes Surf’s SurfRider/AMC DSP resource board and media processing enabling technologies, which are pre-integrated with ATCA and MicroTCA chassis from a variety of leading hardware and communications server providers. The following vendors will showcase the SurfRider/AMC integrated with their own ATCA and MicroTCA offering:
- Motorola’s Embedded Communication Computing business is showing a MicroTCA based communications server configured to demonstrate video conferencing that uses Surf’s SurfRider/AMC form factor DSP resource board.
- Interphase will showcase Surf’s SurfRider/AMC DSP resource board and Surf’s voice and video media processing capabilities. This includes streaming, conferencing and recording to demonstrate Surf’s key media processing AMC-based features that are integrated and interoperable with Interphase’s ATCA and AMC products.
- GE Fanuc Embedded Systems will showcase Surf’s SurfRider/AMC DSP resource board.
Surf demonstrations will be viewed on IP video phones, 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.
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Key Features to be Illustrated During the On-going Demos
- 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 and two G.729 streams
- Streaming/recording of files from/to Host file system to/from video IP phones
- Resizing, logo insertion and background insertion in the video portal menus
- 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 unique approach of converging audio and video processing running on the same DSPs/sub-systems offers greater flexibility for media gateway and media server developers, and enables better utilization of CPU horse power resulting in high quality, cost-effective solutions.
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