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Surf Rolls Out Video Streaming Enhancements and New Codec for Its Latest Media Processing Packages(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Surf Communication Solutions has announced the availability of version 5.0 of SurfWare- Media, its multimedia processing solution that combines a wide range of audio, video, fax, and modem conversion engines. SurfWare-Media is supplied with Surf's AMC and PCI Express resource boards, PTMC DSP farm board, PCI card, and DSP chip-level solutions. It defines a new generation of Surf's convergence technologies, featuring support for H.264, iLBC, and WMV9/WMA (decoders only) in addition to the wide range of codecs and processing capabilities supported previously by SurfUP. Enhancements, such as a TrueType font text overlay, speech time scaling, and network smoothing, provide optimized video functionality and performance. The new version specifically addresses the advanced requirements of a wide range of IMS-ready carrier-grade and enterprise telecom infrastructure equipment, such as MRF, media servers, media gateways, session border controllers, as well as iPBX, CTI and other messaging, streaming, recording and conferencing applications. SurfWare-Media provides a completely integrated media processing solution, which runs audio/voice, video, fax and modem media as well as the 3G-324M protocol simultaneously on a single DSP, Texas Instruments' TMS320C64x DSP generation. In addition, Surf provides an open DSP framework that allows telecom infrastructure manufacturers to integrate their own user-defined channel and incorporate ANSI-C algorithms in the DSP. Surf's unique approach of running all media processing-related tasks on a single DSP is different from other solutions, which separate audio and video processing and run them on different DSPs/sub-systems, or divide the processing between the Host and the DSP. Running audio and video together provides a quality solution with better performance and reduced costs, since it enables dynamic modification of the channel during run-time to support audio applications now and audio plus video later, the company noted in a release. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright 2007 Wireless News |