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23 November 2005 - Artesyn Technologies

SURF Communication Solutions 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' TMS320C64x 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 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."

Surf Communication Solutionsestablished 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 in various integration levels: DSP software; DSP hardware/software; PTMC/AMC DSP farm boards; and PCI boards.

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About: Artesyn Technologies
Artesyn Technologies is a leader in the design, manufacture and sale of advanced power conversion equipment and board-level computing solutions for infrastructure applications in telecommunication and data-communication systems. The company's products are sold to OEMs within four core market sectors in the communications industry - server & storage, wireless infrastructure, networking, and telecommunications. The company operates globally, with numerous design, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe and North America.

Artesyn Technologies' business is organized into two operating segments: Power Group and Communication Products Group. The two groups share a strategic direction, a set of core business values and many of the same customers, but have separate operations.

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