Artesyn Embedded Technology 6806800T07B, Installation And Use Manual, Page: 11 / 34

Chapter 1
SharpMedia™ 2U Platform Installation and Use (6806800T07B)
11
Introduction
The SharpMedia™ Platform is an integrated solution that consists of a Carrier grade 2U server
and SharpMedia™ PCIE-8120 acceleration cards. The SharpMedia platform server is installed
with CentOS 7.x 64-bit Operating System.
SharpMedia™PCIE-8120 acceleration cards are PCI Express based and are designed using the
Octasic OCT2224M multi-core Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) along with Vocallo Media
Gateway firmware (MGW). The DSP array performs the media processing acceleration for host
server, supporting both voice and video conferencing and transcoding applications. The
OCT2224M DSP supports high-density media processing at a fraction of the power of
competing devices. With a nominal power consumption of 4 Watts, the OCT2224M can
transcode hundreds of audio streams or multiple HD video streams.
For more information about the functional description of SharpMedia™ PCIE-8120, refer to
SharpMedia™
PCIE-8120 Installation and Use manual .
1.1 Features
The following are the main features of SharpMedia™ Platform:

Configurable for up to four single slot full-length full-height PCI Express cards with x4
interface.

High performance media processing core based on power-efficient DSPs.

Support for 720p and 1080p video conferencing.

Designed to comply with NEBS, GR63-CORE, and GR-1089-CORE.
The SharpMedia Platform and its SharpMedia PCIE-8120 acceleration cards are used for the
following applications:

Session border controllers (adding voice or video transcode)

Media gateways

Media servers/media resource function

Video/content optimization (transcode and transrating)

WebRTC voice applications

Interactive voice and video response systems