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YOKNE'AM, Israel, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Surf Communication Solutions ("Surf"), a leading developer of high-capacity multimedia processing boards for the telecommunication infrastructure field, today announced that it has partnered with Artesyn Communication Products, a subsidiary of Artesyn Technologies (NASDAQ:ATSN), to develop open architecture, Triple-Play (voice, video, and data [fax/modem]) media processing solutions. Surf will combine its PTMC and AdvancedMC DSP farms, based on Texas Instruments Incorporated's TMS320C64x(TM) DSP generation, with Artesyn's PICMG 2.16 and AdvancedTCA blades to create media gateway and media server subsystems that deliver voice, video, fax and modem over IP, mobile, wireline, and wireless networks. "Artesyn's open architecture blades provide an excellent platform for our AdvancedMC and PTMC media processing DSP farms," said Amir Zmora, vice president of marketing at Surf. "The resulting integrated solution is a comprehensive 'hardware and software', high-availability, high-density infrastructure subsystem for telecom equipment manufacturers, which greatly reduces their time-to-market." "Surf's extensive DSP hardware, software and media processing expertise makes them an ideal partner for creating open architecture, Triple-Play media processing solutions," said Todd Wynia, vice president of marketing at Artesyn. "Our PICMG 2.16 and AdvancedTCA blades, together with Surf's AdvancedMC and PTMC media processing DSP farms, will give telecom OEMs an out- of-the-box solution for building a broad range of modular, open architecture media processing gateways and servers that offer Triple-Play capability." "Surf is a valuable member of TI's Third Party Program, as they continue to drive innovation by leveraging TI's high-performance C64x(TM) DSPs to deliver superior media processing solutions," said Danny Petkevich, worldwide C6000 DSP platform marketing manager, TI. "By using TI's C64x DSPs, Surf's Triple-Play software solution enables customers to invest in a single architecture that scales from low cost, lower performance applications such as voice access gateways to performance intensive applications like voice/video transcoding and media servers, all while preserving the customer software investment." About Surf Communication Solutions Surf Communication Solutions(R), established in 1996, designs, develops, and markets high-capacity multi-media processing boards for the telecommunication infrastructure field. Surf's customers use these boards in their Media Gateway and Media Server products. Using their comprehensive transcoding capabilities, Surf's products greatly shorten time to market, are cost effective, and enable true convergence of all major media types-Voice, Video, and Data (Fax/Modem)-over IP, Mobile, Wireline, and Wireless networks. These solutions are provided at various integration levels: DSP software; DSP hardware/software; PTMC/AMC DSP farm boards; and PCI boards. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.surf-com.com/ . About Artesyn Technologies, Inc. Artesyn Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Boca Raton, FL., is a world leader in the design, manufacture and sale of power conversion and single- board computing solutions for infrastructure applications in telecommunications and data-communications systems. The Company's products are used in middle to high-end servers, data storage devices, routers, hubs, high-speed modems, RF amplification systems, base station controllers and transceivers. The Company has a global sales reach with design and manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe and North America. Artesyn is a public company whose common stock is traded on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol ATSN. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.artesyn.com/ . About Texas Instruments Third Party Program Surf Communication Solutions is a member of TI's TMS320(TM) third party program, the most extensive collection of global DSP development support in the industry. With more than 650 independent companies and consultants, TI's customers have easy access to a broad range of application software, development hardware and software and consulting services. For more information on the TI third party program, please visit http://www.ti.com/3p . TMS320, TMS320C64x and C64x are trademarks of Texas Instruments. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Surf Communication Solutions CONTACT: Ruth Bridger of Surf Communication Solutions, +972-4-9095777, or Web site: http://www.ti.com/ http://www.surf-com.com/ http://www.artesyn.com/ http://www.ti.com/3p

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