I find myself really focused on video and the impact it's having on both business and social interaction. Hence, I find that news about video companies catches my eye more often. Video technologies have long been available with amazing quality for surveillance, CCTV and defense uses. For businesses and consumers, the solutions available have been either cheap and unreliable, with poor quality, or priced out of our reach.

Mango DSP just announced a PCI blade that acts as a high-end video coprocessor, offloading the video transcoding and other functions from the main CPU. I think we're going to see this solution approach spread quickly to other applications of video than surveillance.

Mango DSP Releases New 32 Channel PCI Blade with High-End Video Processing Capabilities

The Condor, PCI Express is ideal for centralized solutions that require video encoding, decoding or video analytics processing.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – February 28 2008 – Mango DSP, a leading provider of intelligent video solutions for the CCTV, video surveillance, and defense markets today announced the launch of the new Condor family of products starting with the Condor PCI-e. The Condor PCI-e blade, a single PCI slot solution capable of high density encoding or decoding, video streams up to 32 channels using H.264, MPEG-4 or MJPEG video compression. With its advanced capabilities the Condor is a powerful processing board that enables video analytics, transcoding and other demanding applications.

"Mango DSP's Condor is ideal for OEM partnerships as it provides a cost effective, highly flexible centralization solution. " said Baruch Peled, CEO of Mango DSP. "It is an important addition to Mango DSP's product suite and part of our unique multi-analytic approach to threat prevention, whatever the threat."

The Condor transforms any industrial PC station into a centralized intelligent video surveillance system. It is capable of receiving an analog video signal, encoding and streaming it, either through the PCI bus or through the onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports. Video Analytics can be employed on IP video from 3rd party encoders and IP cameras. The Condor technology also enables cross channel data manipulation and the addition of multiple boards increasing the number of input channels processed on a single PC. The Mango X software allows seamless integration of any algorithms including video analytics to the Condor. The Condor can be used as a secondary processing unit through its Ethernet ports or as a pre-processing blade for the host PC through the PCI bus.

About Mango DSP
Mango DSP develops and markets the next generation of video solutions for the CCTV, defense, and homeland security markets. The company employs approximately 60 people at its Jerusalem headquarters and offices in the U.S. Mango has excelled in developing the next-generation intelligent video servers for the defense, surveillance, and mobile markets. At the core of Mango’s solutions are a variety of high-end video servers and the Mango IVS software, which provide the industry with a standard platform for analytics and security management systems enabling leading performance, compact and cost effective solutions. Mango's products are available in commercial and rugged form.