(1888PressRelease)
February 27, 2009 - Barcelona, Spain -– This carrier-grade solution was built using best-of-breed, commercial off-the-shelf technology within an unprecedented 8-week period and is based on:
* Surf highly successful SurfExpress/PCIe
* IBM BladeCenter NEBS3 / ETSI-compliant system platform
* ENEA, an SA Forum based, High-Availability (HA) middleware
* BLADE Network high bandwidth, IP network switch
* NAT provided TDM telecom interfaces
* Tail-F integrated systems management
At the heart of this Surf integrated solution is the SurfExpress / PCIe DSP farm, which includes a complete media-processing package for audio, video, modem and fax support. Surf unique board utilizes a highly innovative, patent-pending design, which can support up to four pairs of Texas Instruments’ most advanced generation, the C64x DSPs. By utilizing this innovative approach, Surf is able to dramatically increase the density with up to 12 DSPs per PCI Express. Since the media processing is performed at the DSP level, Surf product provides an ideal high-density solution for multimedia channel processing with the most effective power consumption and foot print.
"Preliminary analysis from customers of this open COTS approach projects an 8X cost advantage over some proprietary based configurations" said Avi Fisher, founder and Chief Technology Officer, Surf Communication Solutions. "The union between IBM BladeCenter and the unique media processing capabilities of our SurfExpress/PCIe DSP farm demonstrates a much higher value proposition for our joint clients to enjoy faster time to market and provides a cost-effective and easy-to-integrate communication solutions to drive and distribute their voice and video applications"
"A PCI based solution, based on SurfExpress/PCIe provides tremendous scalability from the IBM System x up through the IBM BladeCenter" said Pierre Perdaems, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, IBM Systems & Technology Group.
Surf chose to work with IBM products because of their broad portfolio of blade offerings, including:
* BladeCenter S for small firms and branch office environments
* BladeCenter E and BladeCenter H for enterprise data center deployments
* BladeCenter T and BladeCenter HT for robust, telecom central office deployments with NEBS3 / ETSI requirements
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