YOKNE'AM, Israel, September 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Surf's PCI Express Multimedia Processing Platform Provides High Density 
Voice and Video Processing for NEC's New Line of Platforms for Advanced 
Telecom Services

Surf Communication Solutions ("Surf"), a leading provider of multimedia
embedded processing solutions, announced today that NEC Corporation ("NEC"),
a multinational company providing information technology (IT) and network
solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and
government, has selected Surf's SurfExpress/PCIeTM multimedia processing
solution to provide simultaneous voice and video processing capabilities for
their core network mobile and fixed service delivery platforms.

These media servers and media gateways are the forerunners in a set of
new multimedia applications and services currently being developed by NEC for
Japanese telecom operators who are deploying new IP-based networks. The
decision to select Surf's PCIe platform for these projects was three-fold: 1)
Surf provides true multimedia support on the same platform when all other
manufacturers support voice and video separately; 2) Surf's is a very
cost-effective solution; and 3) Surf's platform supports high densities with
low power consumption, which is very important in the central office.

The first media server is scheduled for delivery to a Japanese telecom
operator in Q4, 2008.

The SurfExpress/PCIe DSP farm includes a complete media processing
package for audio, video, modem and fax. It utilizes a highly innovative
patent-pending design supporting up to four pairs of DSPs from Texas
Instruments' most advanced generation, the C64x(TM), for a total of eight
DSPs per PCI Express board. Since the media processing is performed at the
DSP level, and not on the host, the Surf product provides an ideal
cost-effective solution for high density multimedia channel processing at the
lowest possible power consumption.

"NEC selected Surf's development platform because it stood out as the
highest density transcoding solution available, and since it is the only true
multimedia processing board in the market, handling both voice and video on
the same platform," said Kazuo Shimazaki, Senior Manager, NEC Network Service
System Division. "In addition, the unique architecture of Surf's solution
opens up bottlenecks in the control and media planes, further increasing
throughput in our systems."

"We are pleased to be selected as a key supplier for the latest products
in NEC Corporation's telecom services line," said Avi Fisher, Surf's CTO.
"This project is proof that Surf's products and support staff meet the
stringent quality standards demanded by NEC. It also demonstrates how Surf's
high density, low power consumption multimedia processing boards provide
cost-effective solutions to our customers."

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet,
broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the
specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. For more
information, visit www.nec.com.

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. For
more information, visit http://www.surf-com.com.

Contact Information

    SURF Communication Solutions
    Public Relations
    Tel: +972-(0)-73-714-0700
    e-mail: PR@surf-com.com