Surf Communication Solutions and Motorola are to provide bundled silicon and software solutions aimed at the high-growth telecommunications access market

The agreement is intended to provide OEMs with the most advanced universal port solution available for converged packet voice, packet fax, V.9x modems and high-speed data services. The access solution is based on Motorola's leading MSC810x family of StarCore-based DSPs, including the MSC8101 and the recently announced quad-core MSC8102, which will be designed to run the Surf Multi-access Pool (SMP) DSP software solution for packet voice (VoIP), packet Fax (FoIP), V.9x modem, including the recently ratified V.92 standard, and high-speed data services.

This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 February 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition to the MSC810x/SMP kit, Motorola and Surf plan to provide a comprehensive suite of tools, including multi-DSP reference designs, Smart Networks-compliant host level interfaces and evaluation platforms.

This access solution is designed to allow leading telecommunication OEMs to integrate turnkey solutions, thus speeding time-to-market and enabling valuable internal engineering resources to concentrate on system level and value-added applications.

The MSC810x family, with the industry's highest performance DSP announced to date, coupled with its small package size and low power dissipation, is an optimal solution for high-density, signal processing-intensive applications.

Surf's SMP is a modular software solution that is designed to process multiple channels concurrently supporting a broad suite of access technologies-including voice compression, fax and modem modulation and high-speed data services.

Together, the MSC810x and SMP provide a comprehensive solution for a wide variety of telecommunication access equipment such as Remote Access Servers and Concentrators, Media Gateways, Voice Gateways, Access Routers, and 3G Wireless Interworking Gateways.
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"Our strategic alliance with Surf is intended to integrate Motorola's industry-leading communication processors and networking DSPs with Surf's proven SMP solution, further providing Smart Networking solutions that are designed to deliver performance, interoperability and scalability", said Keith Cheney, general manager of Motorola's Networking and Communication Systems Division.

"This alliance is expected to deliver a solution that frees our customers to focus their development resources on value-added applications, further enabling faster time-to-market for their access products.

We believe that Surf, with its industry accepted and deployed SMP solution is a perfect partner to provide our carrier class customers with a comprehensive universal port access solution", Cheney continued.

"Surf is delighted with our strategic alliance with Motorola.

Motorola's Smart Networks Platform, including its StarCore-based MSC810x DSPs, provide excellent technology for the type of software access solutions that Surf provides.

Surf is confident that the MSC810x/SMP kit will be an unbeatable solution for the Internet telephony and data access markets", said Ron Bleakney, president of Surf Communication Solutions.

The MSC8102/SMP kit is expected to provide over 60 fully convergent (voice/fax/modem) channels; over 80 compressed voice channels with over 64 millisecond carrier class echo cancellation; and up to 600 non-compressed (G.711) voice channels - a capability unmatched by any other product today.