WellTech Selects Jungo's OpenRG Software for New VoIP Gateway

Product development time shortened through use of Jungo's residential gateway software optimized for the Intel® IXP420 network processor

San Jose, Calif., Feb. 20, 2003 - Jungo® Software Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of residential gateway software, today announced that its OpenRG™ residential gateway software, optimized for the Intel® IXP420 network processor, will provide the core infrastructure for WellTech's new broadband Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway.

OpenRG is a complete set of software technologies for residential gateways that enables the delivery of advanced broadband services and simplifies networking for broadband users and service providers. By choosing the combined hardware and software platform of OpenRG on the Intel® IXP420 network processor, WellTech, a leading manufacturer of VoIP and computer telephony solutions, has been able to simplify the product development cycle, focus on product customization and bring a high-performance VoIP gateway to market sooner.

"The development work done by Intel and Jungo has made it easier for WellTech to develop their new gateway based on the IXP420 network processor," said Nick Finamore, general manager, Intel Network Processor Division. "Jungo's OpenRG provides an open software platform that has been optimized for the IXP4XX product line and is increasingly popular with broadband customer premise equipment manufacturers."

With OpenRG integrated into its new VoIP gateway, WellTech is able to offer its customers a product that delivers advanced broadband services, secure networking, intuitive web-based management and remote upgrade capabilities. In addition, to enable voice services, the gateway supports leading VoIP industry standards, including H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The gateway also offers networking over an Ethernet switch, USB 1.1 slave and wireless local area network (LAN) interfaces 802.11a and b.

"Jungo's OpenRG optimized for the Intel® IXP420 network processor enabled us to smoothly integrate a wide variety of applications and interfaces into our new VoIP gateway," said John Chen, President of WellTech. "With this infrastructure in place, we are easily able to add our added-value features, save precious development time and bring the gateway to our customers sooner."

In response to WellTech's selection of OpenRG, Udi Yuhtjman, VP business development of Jungo commented: "Jungo's choice of reference designs on the Intel® IXP4XX product line provides broadband CPE manufacturers with a flexible architecture for multiple applications and support for a variety of WAN and LAN technologies. WellTech has been able to maximize these core technologies to develop a sophisticated VoIP gateway that we look forward to seeing deployed by service providers and retailers alike."

About OpenRG
OpenRG is a scalable suite of software technologies that provides customer premise equipment (CPE) vendors with the infrastructure needed to bring residential gateways / integrated access devices (IADs) to market faster. OpenRG includes a choice of operating systems, drivers, remote management capabilities and support for CableHome -based devices. In addition, OpenRG combines a set of highly integrated applications and services required for the home and small office, such as home networking (wireless LAN - 802.11a/b/g, HomePNA , HomePlug), network security (Stateful Packet Inspection firewall certified by ICSA Labs, a division of TruSecure Cooperation), Virtual Private Networking (VPN), remote management (web and SNMP based) and remote upgrade capabilities.

About WellTech
Welltech Computer Co., Ltd., founded in 1988 in Taiwan, is committed to promoting better communications and networking solutions to their customers through a strong knowledge and expertise in VoIP, CTI, and Call Center technologies. Welltech is an ISO 9001 certified company with more than 120 employees worldwide. As the leading company in CTI and VoIP technology in Taiwan, and with years of experience in system development, Welltech has developed its own line of VoIP solutions and become a VoIP expert. Find out more at http://www.welltech.com.tw

About Jungo
Jungo Software Technologies is a leading supplier of residential gateway software solutions, driver development tools and hardware access applications. Jungo offers integrated reference designs with several of the most influential global silicon vendors, enabling its customers to simplify device development cycles, improve performance and accelerate time to market. Jungo is a privately held company with corporate offices in San Jose, California, sales and support offices in Taiwan and an R&D center in Israel. Founded in 1998, Jungo's investors include TeleSoft Partners, Infineon Ventures and Intel Communications Fund.

Jungo is a member of the Intel (R) Communications Alliance, for more information please visit intel.com/go/ica

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Jungo and OpenRG are trademarks of Jungo Software Technologies Inc. Intel, IXP and XScale are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other brands and names contained in this release are the property of their respective owners.

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