SURF Communication Solutions announced it is leveraging Texas Instruments' high performance TNETV3020six-core digital signal processor to promote the development of open architecture, multimedia processing solutions for telecom applications. Surf's multimedia processing package enables simultaneous support for all types of media - video, voice, fax and modem - on a single DSP.

    Surf has integrated TI's DSP into its advanced mezzanine card, PCI Express card, and chip- level solution to support the development of multimedia gateways and servers that deliver video, voice, fax and modem over mobile and wireline networks. Both the SurfRider/AMC mezzanine card and the SurfExpress/PCIe board feature a modular plug-in that carries up to four pairs of DSPs. The resulting eight multicore DSPs per board delivers unprecedented price performance, ideal for converged distribution of video and voice for a wide variety of telecom applications, including voice and video gateways, MMSC content adaptation engines, and multimedia servers.

    TI's TNETV3020 DSP provides high performance with low power consumption and a small footprint. The combined solution offers impressive processing performance for video codecs, such as H.264, alongside a large amount of voice channel instances. Surf offers a variety of DSP-level solutions for the development of telecom infrastructure applications, each of which comprises a complete media processing solution offering simultaneous support for multimedia convergence–audio/voice, video, fax and/or modem–all running on a single DSP.

    "The low power consumption, small footprint and exceptional processing performance of TI's TNETV3020 provide telecom equipment manufacturers with the highest performance/density ratio available," commented Ofer Talmor, Product Marketing Manager at Surf Communication Solutions. "This makes the TNETV3020 DSP on Surf's multimedia processing platforms the most optimized solution for development of voice and video telecom applications. The fact that customers can choose to use the TNETV3020 DSP-based solution within Surf's cards or as chip-level provides plenty of opportunities to build heavy duty media processing products using the best available building blocks."

    Media Gateway manufacturers are continuously working to update their products to reflect new transport protocols and media types. Augmenting product capabilities to support MoP (Media over Packet: the conversion of Voice, Video, and Data (Fax & Modem) over Wireline, Wireless and Packet networks) using any one of Surf's suite of hardware and software products for media gateway manufacturers will reduce development costs and shorten time-to-market.

    "The advanced set of communication peripherals in the TNETV3020, like Telecom Serial Interface Ports (TSIP) and Gigabit Ethernet, along with the outstanding processing performance and low power consumption per channel, make it the ideal platform for TDM and IP-based systems," stated John Smrstik, manager of TI's high density core networks group. "Coupled with Surf's ability to process video, voice, and data simultaneously, this combined solution will reduce time-to-market for OEMs building fixed and mobile media gateways, and transcoding applications."