US : Surf Communication Solutions ("Surf") announced that Wind Mobile has selected Surf's SurfRider/PTMC multimedia processing technology to support mobile 3G video services in its Falcon platform media server solutions.

Falcon platform, Wind Mobile's flagship product, is a unified service environment for mobile carriers that provides voice, SMS, MMS, call completion and a wide range of other leading edge mobile services. Possible services available on the Falcon platform range from mobile entertainment, such as Custom Ringback, Funny Greetings, Song Dedications, to core communications services such as Network ACD, Voice Messenger, IN Services, SMS2Fixed, up to call completion services including Presence / Availability and Missed Call Notifications. By incorporating Surf's SurfRider/PTMC multimedia processing solution into the Falcon platform, Wind Mobile can further boost the reach of its customers' services by supporting video streams over the mobile network and enabling brand new and innovative applications over 3G networks. The first commercial video service based on Falcon and enabled by Surf will be launched in Q3 2007.

The SurfRider/PTMC ( inset )is a fully integrated RoHS-compliant PMC/PTMC DSP resource board with a comprehensive multimedia processing package for audio, video, modem and fax.

"Wind Mobile selected Surf's multimedia processing solution for its open architecture, high performance, excellent quality, and video conferencing support," said Szymon Slupik, CEO, Wind Mobile. "With Surf's product we will be able to expand upon our current communication solutions to offer our customers feature-rich, high quality mobile and fixed video services with a minimum of development effort."

"We are pleased that Wind Mobile selected our DSP-based multimedia processing solution to enhance their contact center and media server services," said Doron Hendler, Surf's VP Sales. "These projects demonstrate how Surf's flexible architecture and ability to process various media types simultaneously enable our customers to add video support with incredibly fast time-to-market."

About Surf Communication Solutions

SURF Communication Solutions(R) develops a suite of hardware and software products that drives a wide variety of applications whose common goal is high- capacity distribution of voice and video. These applications are predominantly developed by media gateway, media server and IMS equipment manufacturers in the telecommunication infrastructure field.

The Surf engine is an off-the-shelf fully converged audio/video media processing subsystem that integrates easily into media gateways and servers. It is available in various integration levels, such as AdvancedMC, PTMC, PCIe and PCI form factor resource boards or DSP chips, which are pre-integrated with leading AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA and cPCI carrier boards and blades.