IP Unity Selects Surf Communication Solutions' DSP Resource Boards for IMS Video Applications

Companies' complementary media processing and strengths expand rich media functions, leverage emerging multimedia capabilities

Fall VON 2006, BOSTON, Mass — September 10, 2005— P Unity, the leader in carrier–grade media servers, application servers and real-time multimedia applications, has teamed with Surf Communication Solutions ("Surf"), a leading provider of high-capacity multimedia processing boards for the telecommunication infrastructure field, to deliver advanced video functionality in applications such as video messaging and video conferencing.

IP Unity's industry-leading, IMS-ready Mereon® 6000 Media Server and Mereon Application Server are being paired with Surf's ATCA-ready SurfRider-812™/PTMC DSP resource board and SurfStream™ media processing framework to enhance the delivery of diverse video communications signals from one end device or network to another, enhancing many emerging multimedia applications for converging networks.
IP Unity is bringing the most feature rich, flexible, and user-friendly carrier-grade video messaging and video conferencing applications to market this year, as part of its ongoing strategy to equip carriers and enterprises with unified communications and IMS-ready solutions. The company's strategy includes the delivery of IMS functions, delivery of H.263/MPEG-4/H.264 signals and video quality enhancements.

"Surf is advancing the convergence of voice and video processing on and across 3G and IP networks," stated Keith Bhatia, CTO and Senior Vice President of Business Development for IP Unity. "We are integrating Surf's products into our solutions, to ensure reduced time-to-market, deliver the highest video quality, processing density and speed, and enable some of the hottest applications demanded by the market."

"IP Unity has a great vision for converged multimedia applications, and a very powerful set of integrated video solutions," emphasized Surf VP Sales Doron Hendler. "By using our SurfStream and SurfRider products, IP Unity is taking advantage of the best, most future-proofed signal processing technology and our advanced development framework for scalable media transport, transcoding, streaming and conferencing functions."

IP Unity's Mereon Video Conferencing solution, incorporating Surf's video engine, can be seen at Booth 429 at the Fall VON 2006 in Boston, September 12-14.

About Surf Communication Solutions
SURF Communication Solutions develops a suite of hardware and software products that drives a wide variety of applications whose common goal is high-capacity propagation 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 media processing engine is available in a variety of integration levels, such as AMC, PTMC and PCI form factor resource boards or DSP chips, which are pre-integrated with leading ATCA, MicroTCA and cPCI carrier boards and blades.

By utilizing the capabilities and flexibility of Surf's media processing engine, customers can significantly reduce time–to–market while supporting market demands for true convergence of all media types: audio/voice, video, and data (fax/modem), over all networks: IP, mobile, wireline, and wireless – all on a single DSP.

For more information, go to www.surf-com.com or call (866) 644-3379.

Trademarks SurfRider and SurfStream are trademarks of Surf Communication Solutions. Mereon is a registered trademark of IP Unity. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About Movius
Movius Interactive Corporation gives people the power to enrich their lives through viable innovations that transform the way they interact with information, media and each other. Formally under the name IP Unity Glenayre, Movius is a recognized leader in messaging, collaboration and mobile media solutions for service providers worldwide.

For more information, please visit www.moviuscorp.com.

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