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News Release from: Surf Communication Solutions | Subject: Triple play media processing products
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 May 2005
Media processing products go three ways
A new line of media processing products will enable developers to provide triple play functionality using a single Texas Instruments TMS320C6412 digital signal processor.
A new line of triple play media processing products will 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 digital signal processor (DSP) This new technology will revolutionise the way telecommunications infrastructure systems are designed
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Currently, there are different systems or subsystems for each media type.
Video systems are comprised of various subsystems, each handling a different media type.
For example: voice is handled on a TMS320C5x DSP and video on a TMS320C64x DSP, others use host-based processing for one of the media types.
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This separation of systems results in a variety of drawbacks: systems which are not cost-effective, not scaleable, not balanced, and not synchronised.
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 use 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 optimised 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".
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