“OnSurf provide our customers the opportunity for new and increased revenues streams by diversifying their offerings with innovative video services. Running on the IBM BladeCenter means our customers have the performance, high-availability and scalability required for carrier-class, mission critical service delivery.”
— Ilan Weizman, Vice President, Marketing, Surf Communication Solutions
Mobile video represents a huge opportunity for wireless service providers to differentiate their offerings and counter declining ARPU trend by stimulating use of higher-ARPU services by subscribers.
To take advantage of this opportunity, service providers need to be able to deliver attractive content to their subscribers.
Successful deployments of mobile video requires the adaptation of video content to ensure compatibility across various different devices.
Surf Communications Solutions has developed OnSurf a carrier-grade, high-density and scalable video delivery platform featuring streaming with real-time content adaption to deliver any video content to any handset. By utilizing the IBM BladeCenter and the IBM PCI Expansion Unit, OnSurf performs real-time video content adaptation with high efficiency. It delivers superb video quality and avoids the need to duplicate the source content off-line in different formats to match different handsets.
OnSurf can optimize the transport protocol, video codec and format/size to improve the subscriber’s experience based on the capabilities of the mobile device.
Simplified Content Management maintaining a single copy of video content (file or live stream) leading to a more cost-effective content management solution.
Sample Configuration
| Services |
|---|
| Control |
| Transport |
| Acess |
| Chassis | BladeCenter HT |
|---|---|
| Blade | HS21 & PCI Expansion Unit |
| Memory | 8GB |
| Other | Linux |
Surf Communications Solutions and IBM: a powerful combination
The combination of Surf Communications Solutions and the IBM BladeCenter family delivers the performance, reliability and affordability demanded by mission critical telecommunications applications. The IBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform for the deployment of these services providing a single platform to help reduce operating costs and complexity.
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