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New Design is a Fully Integrated Hardware/Software Solution Providing OEMs with the Most Complete and Cost Effective System for NAS Devices

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 4, 2005 - Jungo Software Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of home, SOHO and SMB gateway software, and StorLink Semiconductors, Inc., a worldwide technology leader in network storage technology today announced a new fully integrated software and hardware reference design targeted at OEMs and ODMs designing Home, SOHO and SMB NAS systems. Jungo's field proven and widely deployed software suite bundled with StorLink's highly integrated silicon enables vendors to bring to market competitive NAS devices in less then 3 months from early stages of design into mass production.

The newly introduced System-on-a-Chip (SoC) bundled with a commercial software license from Jungo, achieves new levels of cost and its priced at $10 in quantities of 50k units, enabling OEMs/ODMs the delivery of advanced NAS devices with retail price of under $60 with out the drives.

"The first generation of consumer/SMB networked storage came to being with standalone NAS boxes. Home users are demanding solutions to share and secure their photos and other media files. SMBs see the appeal of a lower-cost, easier to manage alternative to using low-end servers for simple file sharing", said Jeremey Donovan, Chief Analyst at Gartner Dataquest. "The future generation brings the very real prospect of converging storage functionality with network routing and firewall with benefits that extend from lower-cost to simplified management to a smaller footprint".

Based on StorLink's Centroid System-on-a-Chip (SoC) storage router device bundled with Jungo's sate-of-the-art Linux based OpenRG™ software suite, ODMs and OEMs will be able to introduce highly competitive NAS devices, storage routers with VPN, and Office-in-a-box solutions. The flexible architecture allows vendors to add premium features such video/audio processing and streaming to differentiate their products.

NAS devices based on the new Jungo/StorLink solution will provide advanced functionality including certified firewall and VPN, hardware encryption engine, secure wireless connectivity, print server and file server functionality supporting dynamic storage recognition, FAT32/ext2/ext3 disk formatting, FAT32/ext2/FAT12/FAT16 disk mounting, graphic display of storage device on network map, partition table administration, error detection and repair utilities and friendly user administration via web based management.

"Today's home and office users are looking for expandable, secure and easy to use and share storage solutions for the rapidly increasing digital content ", said Ofer Vilenski, Jungo's Chief Executive Officer. "The StorLink SoC storage router device bundled with Jungo's OpenRG software will assist OEMs to quickly bring to market high quality, low price storage networking devices."

"Bundling Jungo's software with our silicon enables us to offer OEMs a field proven and widely deployed software solution in the most cost effective manner, improving time to market and reducing the risks associated with complex software development and integration", said Dr. Stewart Wu, CEO and Chairman of StorLink Semiconductors.

About OpenRG
OpenRG is a scalable suite of software technologies that provides customer premise equipment (CPE) vendors with the infrastructure needed to bring to market Home, SOHO and SMB gateways. OpenRG significantly simplifies development cycles, improves product performance and accelerates time-to-market with new revenue generating services. OpenRG includes an optimized Linux-based operating system, optional VxWorks support, communication and routing protocols, network security (Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall), wireless LAN security (802.1x, RADIUS client, WPA) Virtual Private Networking (VPN), Universal Plug and Play, web-based management, remote upgrade capabilities, support for CableHome 1.1-based devices and a wide range of home networking applications.

About StorLink
StorLink Semiconductors, Inc. is a worldwide technology leader in network storage System-on-a-Chip design. StorLink offers semiconductor and software solutions to the system manufacturers to develop superior home entertainment and SOHO information technology products such as NAS, router gateway, VPN gateway, printer server, media server and adaptor. Its superior performance is driven by the highly integrated and optimized hardware and software designs. StorLink is a privately held company with corporate offices in Mountain View, California and a R&D and customer support center in Taiwan. Find out more at www.storlinksemi.com.

About Centroid
The Centroid Product Family is a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) NAS Router device that provides superior performance and functionality for the Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SME) and the home network storage markets. It has a 32-bit ARM9 RISC Processor with over 225MIPS performance. The device integrates two IDE Controllers for direct interface with hard drive, CD-RW and DVD-RW, a full featured hardware accelerated security engine, a 66MHz 32-bit PCI interface, a 10/100 Ethernet MAC, an USB interface for printer sharing, a Real Time Clock for system management, an UART port for modem connection, and a LPC interface for parallel printer or a Super IO chipset connection. In addition, Centroid supports the cost effective DDR SDRAM memory .

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