Banco Columbia integrates Surf video conferencing technology to improve communications between its 60 branches spread throughout Argentina.
Banco Columbia sees highly secured inter-bank communications playing a key role in improving customer service and reducing overhead business expenses.

Yokneam, Israel (November, 2016) – Surf Communication Solutions, a developer of high capacity, real-time multimedia processing and enabling technologies, has announced an agreement for supplying its Orion HMP video conferencing solution to Banco Columbia S.A., a commercial bank headquartered in Buenos Aires with over 60 branches spread throughout Argentina.

As part of the agreement, Banco Columbia will outfit all of their bank branches with Surf’s WebRTC compatible video conferencing solution. The plug-and-play Orion HMP is the first video conferencing solution that supports both legacy and next-gen deployments, enabling financial organizations and enterprise to quickly outfit secure and high-quality video conferencing for all codecs and protocols without having to overhaul their existing IT infrastructure.

Surf’s Orion HMP is a software-based solution that leverages the processing power of a COTS Intel server GPU to process up to 90% more data per server, enabling it to provide users with 1080p/4k video resolution with latency of under 60 FPS. Of significance to Banco Columbia and other monetary institutions, Orion HMP operates on top of the internal server, enabling all the benefits of web-browser access without any risk of data leakage.

Represented by Provetel, a leading IT integrator and distributor in Argentina, and Provetel’s integrator VOXSUR, Surf made the short list of potential providers by demonstrating its ability to facilitate high-quality calls between legacy SIP, H.323 infrastructure and next-gen WebRTC. Furthermore, Surf’s software-based architecture enables Orion HMP to be priced significantly lower than traditional room-based systems.

Diego Salomon, VP telecommunications for Banco Columbia commented, “The bank was seeking an easy to integrate video conferencing platform that would enable multi-user access at each bank location over WebRTC protocol. Our initial criteria in the tender were secure communications with a high quality call experience, content sharing and whiteboard. However, we chose Surf, Provetel and VOXSUR after being impressed with their professionalism, and having found the product to have exceptionally low latency, the most competitive pricing and the greatest adaptation to Internet based calling.”

Ariel Linker, Surf’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing commented: “Surf supports the financial industry with ultra-secured communications over the WebRTC model. The installation at Banco Columbia represents another successful installment within the financial sector, and cements Surf’s place as the ideal solution for banks and investment houses seeking secure communications while not compromising on flexibility and quality.

About Surf Communication Solutions

Surf Communication Solutions is an industry leader in high-capacity processing solutions for real-time multimedia communication systems and applications. Since 1996, Surf’s products have delivered the integral technology behind many of the leading vendor’s multimedia servers and gateways, and have been deployed by operators and service providers worldwide. Surf powered multimedia applications deliver next-gen services to millions of end-users every day. Surf’s engines provide a fully converged multimedia processing subsystem available in various form factors affording unmatched density and performance, optimal modularity and the broadest available multimedia-service handling.

For more information, visit our new website at www.surfsolutions.com.

Contact Information:

Email: pr@surfsolutions.com

Leveraging NFV Migration & Multimedia Applications

The telecom landscape is changing rapidly thanks to the increase in media-centric target applications and services. To meet these requirements, Enterprise IT, service providers and telecom operators are pivoting to virtualized servers, including NFV.

In this free webinar, learn how a layered software architecture better leverages the advantages of the MSDK/GPU, including HD 4K resolution, H.265/HEVC, increased server capacity and a reduction in energy consumption. Surf HMP is the first integrated multimedia transcoding platform to optimize Intel’s MSDK/GPU for voice, video and signal applications.

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Panamax leverages Surf Communications’ technology to expand the capabilities of its popular telecom platforms. Panamax sees faster time to market and Level 5 API switches as key Surf advantages in the rapidly changing telecom market.

Yokneam, Israel (September, 2016) – Surf Communication Solutions, a developer of high capacity, real-time multimedia processing and enabling technologies, has announced an agreement for supplying its three-level HMP product suite to Panamax®, a New York and India based developer of advanced telecom and mobile financial technologies.

As part of the agreement, Panamax will integrate the Surf HMP media transcoding engine within their iMax® Class-4 integrated carrier switch, explore Motion-HMP media and signaling APIs for its Class-5 UC&C suite Bridge2Call®, and initiate a trial of the Orion HMP plug-and-play video conferencing application.

Surf’s three-level HMP platform improves performance, cuts time to market, and helps raise corporate profits. Leveraging the processing power of any COTS Intel server GPU, and Surf’s 20 years’ expertise in multimedia, signaling and codec transcoding, the combination of cutting-edge technology and deep industry know-how has enabled Surf to process up to 90% more data per server, reduce energy consumption in parallel, and support the highest quality transcoding for the greatest number of codecs and standards.

By integrating Surf HMP, Panamax will enhance the transcoding gateway on their iMax integrated carrier switch to handle a greater number of legacy and next-gen codecs, while substantially reducing energy consumption, server count, and call latency. Similarly, the potential combination of Motion HMP and the Bridge2Call UC&C suite will improve service and application support, taking the UC&C suite towards ISBC and full IMS for the telecom industry, while Orion HMP’s top-level video conferencing wraps up a complete carrier-class solution.

“When seeking a technology partner for our next generation product line, and the Bridge2Call UC&C suite in particular, Panamax was looking for a software-based transcoding solution with full signaling support that could also provide our clients high-quality and dependable capabilities on both SIP/H.323, and the next-gen WebRTC model,” commented Manoj Jain, VP Global Marketing of the Bankai Group. “As Motion-HMP supports all these requirements, as well as easy-to-use JSON APIs, we are confident that SURF represents the best partner for quickly upgrading our product offering among Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors.”

Ariel Linker, Surf’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing commented: “Surf supports partners like Panamax via friendly per-use licensing models and never-before-seen platform scalability. The Panamax implementation drives home the fact that SURF-HMP’s unique system architecture combined with GPU, multi-core and hyper-thread technology is helping to keep our clients’ operating costs low and profit margins high, while providing true flexibility in new product offerings. We are honored to have been chosen by a distinguished solution provider such as PANAMAX, marking yet another success of our revolutionary HMP platforms.”

About Surf Communication Solutions

Surf Communication Solutions is an industry leader in high-capacity processing solutions for real-time multimedia communication systems and applications. Since 1996, Surf’s products have delivered the integral technology behind many of the leading vendor’s multimedia servers and gateways, and have been deployed by operators and service providers worldwide. Surf powered multimedia applications deliver next-gen services to millions of end-users every day. Surf’s engines provide a fully converged multimedia processing subsystem available in various form factors affording unmatched density and performance, optimal modularity and the broadest available multimedia-service handling.

For more information, visit our new website at www.surfsolutions.com.

About Panamax Inc.

Panamax Inc. is the technology division of the Bankai Group. Established in 2001, it is a rising technology company offering innovative & market-proven telecom switching, carrier business automation and mobile financial solutions. Panamax is headquartered in New York with its R&D center located in Ahmedabad, India. Since 2001, Panamax has been delivering first-class, turnkey telecom and technology solutions to customers across various verticals and geographies. With synchronization of stability & cutting edge technologies, Panamax caters to Telcos, Banking, Financial services and Insurance companies (BFSIs), carriers, merchants, aggregators and service providers.

For more information, visit Panamax’s website at www.panamaxil.com.

Vertical chooses Surf HMP as the media processing engine for its new virtual IP-PBX. Vertical anticipates fast time to market, enhanced product range and improved operating efficiency with Surf’s NFV-enabling solution.

Yokneam, Israel (March, 2016) – Surf Communication Solutions (www.surfsolutions.com), a developer of high capacity, real-time multimedia processing and enabling technologies for the telecommunications industry has announced its Surf HMP media processing platform being chosen by Vertical Communications® (www.vertical.com) for its virtual IP-PBX.

As the successful deployment of new Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies require provision for the latest voice and UC codecs and standards, they also impose the need for legacy support in what is projected to be a long transition period, in addition to seamless interoperability with incumbent PSTN and SIP legacy networks. Vertical Communications has chosen Surf HMP, a media processing platform that handles all media-related tasks in a virtual environment; including modern and legacy codec transcoding, messaging, call recording, large-scale conferencing, legacy fax processing, encryption and a world of additional functionality.

Developed by a veteran team with over 20 years’ experience in voice and video processing, Surf HMP is a scalable and robust media processing platform that meets the needs of both small-scale, as well as large virtualized and non-virtualized deployments. As Surf HMP’s unique system architecture is fully scalable for growth, in addition to making optimized use of the CPU multiple cores and hyper-threads, it is the premier solution today for users seeking to take advantage of Network Function Virtualization capabilities by virtualizing their activities, lowering OPEX and improving time to market.

“As we evaluated various technology vendors to help virtualize our IP-PBX, we recognized it was critical to partner with a company that offered both a dependable infrastructure and a compelling business model,” said Bobby Mohanty, Vertical’s senior vice president and general manager for products. “We’ve had a close relationship with Surf for many years, and have come to appreciate the value that it delivers. Surf HMP’s JSON APIs are extremely easy to use, which helps us achieve an extremely short time to market. In addition, Surf’s flexible licensing models and platform scalability enables us to manage costs as we look to satisfy the needs of our diverse customer base.”

“Telecom providers are seeking a one-stop-shop solution to fully address all their multimedia needs. By facilitating HD voice & video processing across any codec or platform in a single server, and including an advanced API development kit, Surf HMP enables our clients to focus their activities on creating innovative UC solutions which benefit their customers while increasing corporate revenues,” explained Surf CEO, Mr. Avi Fisher.

Ariel Linker, Surf’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing commented: “We are very pleased to be expanding our business cooperation with Vertical. Surf HMP is in many respects an enabling technology that brings with it the business justification for service providers upgrading to NFV/SDN and WebRTC infrastructure. As Surf HMP can be licensed as a media-only or as a media & signaling platform, for voice only or voice & video, Vertical now has a dependable and scalable backend that enables near-complete flexibility in their business model and product offering.”

For more information, visit our new website at www.surfsolutions.com.

Contact Information:

Email: pr@surfsolutions.com

Surf Communication collaborates with Intel on its first all-inclusive platform for NFV and WebRTC

As part of a strategic cooperation, these companies expand the boundaries of NFV and WebRTC deployments. Powered by Intel graphics processors and media software, Surf’s cutting-edge HMP product line is defining the future of multimedia processing solutions.

Yokneam, Israel (February 8, 2016) – Surf Communication Solutions (www.surfsolutions.com), a leading developer of high capacity, real-time multimedia processing platforms and solutions for the telecommunications industry, announces Surf Orion HMP and Surf Motion HMP, the next building blocks of the Surf HMP™ family. This comprehensive, high-performance multimedia communications and processing platform was developed in collaboration with Intel Corporation, a leading vendor of hardware-accelerated media processing platforms utilizing standard off-the-shelf parts.

The NFV/SDN revolution brought about a major shift in the telecommunications industry, where service providers are abandoning dedicated network equipment infrastructures in favor of virtualized, software-based solutions that run on uniform server farms. Successful NFV implementations are now demanding support for the latest video and voice codecs and standards that empower innovative LTE and WebRTC deployments, but at the same time proficiency and guaranteed interoperability with the incumbent SIP and H.323 legacy networks and services.

Surf Communication Solutions, a 20-year veteran of multimedia enabling platforms, introduced its new architecture called Surf HMP, which signifies a quantum-leap in real-time multimedia processing. This new family of products pushes the advantages of Intel® processors with integrated graphics, and optimized by Intel® Media Server Studio delivers fast, high-quality media acceleration – facilitating up to 4K video resolutions and ultra-high capacity HD voice and video processing. Surf HMP is flexibly architectured to meet the requirements of both evolving and large-scale deployments, is driven-by a powerful processing engine that supports all major video and voice codecs and protocols in use, and delivers a multitude of applications such as transcoding, conferencing/mixing, MRF, playout, recording, messaging, video surveillance, encryption and more.

Avi Fisher, Surf’s CEO explains: “Following almost two decades of multimedia processing excellence, SURF meticulously evaluated the available platforms suitable for our next generation offering. We were delighted to find the superb media capabilities provided by Intel Media Server Studio and hardware-accelerated codec support in Intel processors, which are second to none; therefore we have invested considerably in acquiring expertise and proficiency on Intel-based platforms to achieve what Surf HMP can now provide.”

Jeff McVeigh, Intel Software and Services Group vice president and Visual Computing Products general manager, states: “Through the use of Intel processors with media-accelerated technologies optimized by Intel Media Server Studio, the Surf HMP platform solves a critical need for the deployment of multimedia processing, conferencing and streaming solutions. We are excited by its introduction and look forward to ongoing collaboration to lead the way in the NFV/SDN revolution.”

Ariel Linker, Surf’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing comments: “Surf HMP marks a breakthrough in multimedia processing for telecom and service providers, lowering related infrastructure and OPEX, while significantly increasing performance and functionality. As NFV deployments for new 4G/LTE services begin to take shape and form, they’re expected to account for more than 90% of operator deployments in APAC, U.S. and Western Europe. Surf HMP is by far the best of breed for these purposes, and will cement Surf’s leading position in this technological space.”

To meet with a Surf representative and see a live demo of Surf HMP, join us at the 2016 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 22-25 Feb, 2016, Hall 5 – booth 5F81 (Israeli Pavilion).

For more information about Surf products and technologies contact sales@surfsolutions.com.

About Surf Communication Solutions

Surf Communication Solutions is an industry leader in high-capacity processing solutions for real-time multimedia communication systems and applications. Since 1996, Surf’s products have delivered the integral technology behind many of the leading vendor’s multimedia servers and gateways, and have been deployed by operators and service providers worldwide. Surf-powered multimedia applications deliver next-gen services to millions of end-users every day. Surf’s integrated media and signaling engines provide a fully converged multimedia processing subsystem available in various form factors affording unmatched density, interoperability and performance, optimal modularity and the broadest available multimedia-service handling.

For more information, visit our new website at www.surfsolutions.com.

Contact Information:

Email: pr@surfsolutions.com

Paving the way for next generation NFV deployments demanding support for state-of-the-art 4K Video resolutions and HD Voice interoperability between legacy SIP/H.323 and revolutionary WebRTC hybrid infrastructures.

Misgav, Israel – (26 May 2015) – Surf Communication Solutions (www.surfsolutions.com), a leading developer of high capacity, real-time multimedia processing solutions and enabling technologies for the telecommunications industry, today announced the launch of its Surf HMP™ comprehensive multimedia communications & processing platform.

Surf HMP™ marks a breakthrough in multimedia service provisioning, revolutionizing cost, performance and functionality – extended via superb 4K Video resolution and ultra-high capacity Voice & Video transcoding, mixing and processing on any GPU accelerated INTEL processor. Offering a wide variety of licensing models, Surf HMP™ is architectured to meet requirements from evolving and up-to full-blown/large-scale deployments, driven-by a powerful multimedia processing engine facilitating a multitude of applications (transcoding, conferencing/mixing, MRF, playout, recording, messaging, Video Surveillance and more), and instrumental in bridging the “battle between codecs” in the WebRTC world – supporting any-to-any transcoding between H.264, H.265, VP8 and VP9 codecs. Additionally coping with signaling and termination gap challenges, Surf HMP™ grows to be an imperative building-block when interconnecting between legacy/ incumbent operator networks and emerging WebRTC environments.

Mr. Avi Fisher, Surf’s CEO explained, “We anticipated the need for a comprehensive platform that would accommodate the individual needs of heterogeneous audiences, boosting-up the ROI of Service Providers relinquishing archaic-dedicated network equipment for uniform server farms running s/w-based services, integrators seeking ultra-high resolution processing for Video Surveillance applications and others. Surf HMP™ utilizes COTS Intel processors, helping customers realize the NFV/SDN model of a complete separation between the telecom processing platform and the processing hardware.”

Ariel Linker, Surf’s Vice President of Sales commented, “Driven by the vast disposition of Cloud-based and SDN networks for 4G/LTE services, most market analysts share the consensus that starting 2015 NFV platforms will move out from lab phases into commercial ‘productization’, expected to account for over 90% of operator deployments in APAC, US and Western Europe. Surf HMP™ is by far the best of breed, reinforcing Surf’s leading position in this technological space.”
To meet with a SURF representative and see a live demo of the Surf HMP™, join us at the 2015 CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore, 2-5 June, 2015, Hall A – booth 1E2-01 (Israeli Pavilion).

For more information about Surf products and technologies contact sales@surfsolutions.com.

About Surf Communication Solutions

Surf Communication Solutions is an industry leader in high-capacity processing solutions for real-time multimedia communication systems and applications. Since 1996, Surf’s products have delivered the integral technology behind many of the leading vendor’s multimedia servers and gateways, and have been deployed by operators and service providers worldwide. Surf- powered multimedia applications deliver next-gen services to millions of end-users every day. Surf’s integrated media and signaling engines provide a fully converged multimedia processing subsystem available in various form factors affording unmatched density, interoperability and performance, optimal modularity and the broadest available multimedia-service handling.

For more information, visit our new website at www.surfsolutions.com.

Contact Information:

Email: pr@surfsolutions.com