Jungo Releases OpenRG™ v2.1 Residential Gateway Software

CPE manufacturers can now integrate a wider range of broadband services and support emerging home networking standards

San Jose, Calif., October 29, 2002 - Jungo Software Technologies Inc., a leading provider of residential gateway software, today announced the release of OpenRG v2.1 - Jungo's embedded software platform for broadband access devices. The latest release allows CPE manufacturers to bring to market more advanced home networking devices that support a wider range of broadband services and emerging industry standards.

OpenRG v2.1 enhances the mature and proven infrastructure of OpenRG with the introduction of new applications and features, including, support for Linux 2.4, Multi Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC), Multi Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connections, remote upgrade with dual image, Universal Serial Bus (USB) master, Firewire, support for remote syslog server, enhanced network security through additional Application Level Gateways (ALGs) such as Quake I,II,III, AOL® Instant Messenger™ (AIM) and MSN® messenger with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) support.

To assist Jungo's customers in testing and verification, Jungo has also developed complementary Network Management System (NMS) modules that include a Kerberos server and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) client, supporting Kerberos and Diffie Helman key exchange.

"Our extensive experience in the residential gateway market has allowed us to bring new improvements to the OpenRG software for home access devices," said Derry Shribman, Jungo's chief technology officer and vice president of research and development. "We are continuing to work closely with our customers to enable them to bring to market devices that pass home networking standards certification and provide MSOs with rich service offerings."

About OpenRG
OpenRG is a scalable suite of software infrastructure and technologies that OEMs require in order to bring residential gateways / IADs to market. OpenRG includes drivers, an operating system and remote management capabilities and delivers a set of highly integrated applications and services required for the home and small office, including: home networking (HomePNA, wireless LAN - 802.11b, Bluetooth), network security (Stateful Packet Inspection), Virtual Private Networking (VPN), remote management (web and SNMP based) and remote update capabilities.

Availability
OpenRG v2.1 is available today for vendors developing residential gateways and broadband access devices and supports leading CPU architectures including MIPS, ARM, x86 and XScale. For more information please contact Jungo at openrg@jungo.com.

About Jungo
Jungo Software Technologies develops the OpenRG residential gateway software platform that enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to bring broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) such as residential gateways, SOHO gateways and IADs to market quickly. Jungo also provides software development tools for embedded systems and telephony applications, which have millions of installations in the market to date. Jungo is a privately held company with corporate offices in San Jose, California, sales and support offices in Taipei, Taiwan and an R&D center in Israel. Founded in 1998, Jungo is backed by strong venture funding including Telesoft Partners, as well as strategic investors including Infineon Ventures and Intel Communications Fund.

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