Infineon And Jungo Partner To Deliver Carrier-Grade Residential Gateway Platform
Service Providers deploying gateways based on the new platform can
dramatically increase revenue streams by offering new services for
home subscribers
Neubiberg, Germany, and San Jose, CA - October 09, 2007Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX) and Jungo Ltd., today announced a
partnership to deliver production-ready, carrier-grade reference designs
for the multi-service residential gateway market. The partnership enables
customers to offer complete solutions for operator-specific products based
on a pre-integrated, carrier-ready software platform from Jungo and
Infineon's communications chips. Furthermore, it also helps significantly
reduce the customer's time-to-market by shortening in-house design cycles
by up to 50 percent. The new design is available for ADSL2/ 2+ and VDSL
solutions.
"This cooperation with Jungo, the market leader in embedded software
for residential gateways, will enable our customers to bring their products
faster to market and leverage the silicon's value and capabilities",
said Christian Wolff, Senior Vice President of the Communication Solutions
business group and General Manager of the Wireline Access business unit at
Infineon. "Furthermore this partnership will help, complete our
offerings in the residential gateway market and additionally strengthen our
business."
"Jungo's vision of the 'digital home' is one where the operator
offers a plethora of managed value-added-services. By delivering managed
easy-to-use targeted services, the provider can both retain and reclaim the
customer relationship, and maximize the revenue potential of the subscriber
base," said Ofer Vilenski, Jungo's CEO. "Jungo and Infineon are
helping operators drive this vision," he commented.
Infineon is focusing on three key areas of business: Energy Efficiency,
Communications and Security. The company plans to grow in these areas and
strengthen existing businesses. This partnership contributes positively to
Infineon's CPE-business and growth in the Communications area.
About the platform offerings
The gateway design is targeted at OEMs developing carrier grade CPE that
can offer high-performance, next generation multi-service gateways. Service
Providers deploying gateways based on the new platform can increase revenue
streams by offering new revenue-generating services such as IPTV, video
surveillance and Video on Demand (VoD).
The new reference design, for ADSL2/2+ (using Infineon's Danube
IAD-on-a-Chip solution) and VDSL (using the TwinPass-VE and the Vinax-CPE),
offers a wide range of popular services and functions, including IPTV, home
media distribution, WLAN, firewall, VoIP, remote file access and parental
control. This robust functionality gives gateway manufacturers the
flexibility they need for rapidly developing market-specific products such
as triple-play residential gateways, DSL, integrated access devices (IADs),
wireless access points, voice and Private Branch exchange (PBX) gateways,
VPN routers and home storage routers.
About Infineon
Infineon Ventures GmbH, the corporate venture capital arm of Infineon Technologies AG with offices in Munich (Germany) and San Jose (California), today manages a portfolio of 35 start-up companies. Since October 1998 up to date, venture capital of approximately 150 million dollars has been spent in form of minority equity investments. The investment activities are global in region and focus in industry sector on early-stage and start-up companies in microelectronics and communications. More information is available at
http://www.infineonventures.com.
About OpenRG
Jungo's OpenRG™ software for residential gateways enables delivery of innovative,
usable and manageable value-added services to the evolving digital home, while
minimizing the telco's support costs and VAS time-to-market. OpenRG supports all
popular home networks and access networks, and includes high-performance feature-rich
VAS enablers, such as QoS, VoIP, Firewall and Remote management, as well as a
growing set of value-added services. Millions of Jungo-based gateways are deployed
About Jungo
Jungo Ltd., an NDS Group company, is a provider of broadband home
value-added service solutions. Jungo's flagship products, OpenRG™
(
residential gateway software
platform) and OpenSMB™ (small and medium business gateway
software platform) enable broadband Operators to deliver managed
revenue-generating services to the digital home.
Jungo also offers driver development tools,
embedded USB software solutions ans
USB testing tools.
Jungo has partnered with leading operating system and silicon vendors to provide the best solutions for both software and hardware developers.
To find out more about Jungo Ltd. and our products, please visit
www.jungo.com.
About NDS
NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital
technology and services to pay-television platform operators and content providers.
See www.nds.com for more information about NDS.
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