PCI of Japan Introduces VPN Gateway Powered by Jungo's OpenRG Software

Aug 28, 2003

BRC-114IXR Provides Users with Secure, Plug and Play Networking for Corporate and SOHO Environments

San Jose, Calif. & Tokyo, Japan, Aug 28, 2003Jungo® Software Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of residential gateway software, and Planex Communications, Inc. (PCI) (JASDAQ: 6884), a leading networking device vendor based in Japan, today announced the introduction of BRC-114IXR, a new high-throughput VPN gateway for corporate and small office/home office (SOHO) users, manufactured by PCI and powered by Jungo's OpenRG software.

"We recognized the complexity of the software required in our new gateway and took the strategic decision to partner with Jungo, a recognized expert in the corporate and SOHO gateway field," said Katuaki Kubota, CEO of PCI. "Jungo and PCI have worked closely to produce feature-rich designs that met our customers' needs and were delivered on schedule."

BRC-114IXR users benefit from plug and play networking, secure and high-speed communications through a VPN connection, a Stateful Inspection Firewall and a user-friendly web-based management.

"PCI's highly professional development team have maximized the proven OpenRG software platform to produce a family of products that have succeeded to move rapidly into the deployment stage," said Udi Yuhjtman, VP business development at Jungo. "This latest design win adds to the fast growing number of OpenRG-powered gateways now being deployed."

About Planex Communications, Inc.
Interface Masters is a full service design and development-consulting company with over 70 years of combined experience in design, development and project management for Networking and Computer industry. Interface Masters is located in the heart of Silicon Valley with the branch offices to be soon opened in Europe and Asia. Find out more at www.interfacemasters.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.

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