Tempe, Arizona -- April 14, 2014 – Artesyn Embedded Technologies, spun off from Emerson Network Power's embedded computing and power business divisions, announced enhanced support for large-scale application deployments such as OTT network services and WebRTC gateways by integrating the latest audio codec into SharpMedia™ PCIE-8120, the recently rebranded PCI Express media processing acceleration card.

With Artesyn™ SharpMedia PCIE-8120, network equipment providers can add high-density, highly scalable voice and video processing network applications in less space at lower power and cost, rather than deploying additional servers or dealing with significantly reduced application performance. By including support for Opus (used by WebRTC) and SILK (used by Skype) audio codecs in the PCIE-8120, Artesyn enables network application providers to accelerate development and deployment in a cost-effective and scalable manner.

Opus and SILK are open-source, royalty-free audio codecs designed for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet, as well as ideal for archival and streaming applications. These codecs can handle a wide range of audio applications such as Voice over IP, video conferencing, in-game chat, and remote live music performances.

Linsey Miller, server acceleration marketing director at Artesyn Embedded Technologies, stated, "The addition of these codecs underscores the continuity of our innovative product line development and demonstrates our ongoing efforts to introduce new technologies for these application use cases. We actively monitor video codec discussions occurring at the IETF to maximize interoperability for WebRTC-based deployments."