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SAN JOSE, Calif. (Embedded Systems Conference) – April 3, 2006 –

Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) and Jungo Ltd. have collaborated to deliver an Office-in-a-Box reference platform for the small-medium business (SMB) multi-service gateway market. The two companies are jointly demonstrating the combined solution at Freescale’s Booth #1624 at the Embedded Systems Conference this week.

The Office-in-a-Box platform blends Jungo’s field-proven OpenSMB software with Freescale’s MPC8349E mITX reference board. The versatile board features the MPC8349E PowerQUICC™ II Pro processor containing a PowerPC® core and Vitesse’s SparX Gigabit Ethernet switch technology.

The reference platform enables network equipment vendors to develop products that support a rich suite of information technology (IT) services and capabilities, such as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), IP-PBX, Gigabit Ethernet LAN switch, stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall, virtual private network (VPN) router, application-aware quality of service (QoS), print server and network-attached storage (NAS).

“Increased business reliance on Internet services has resulted in significant investments in multi-service small-office networking equipment, and we’ve teamed with Jungo to address this trend with a scalable platform that gives developers exceptional design flexibility,” said Lynelle McKay, vice president and general manager of Freescale’s Digital Systems Division. “Our PowerQUICC processor-based platform running Jungo’s software enables rapid development of all-in-one networking equipment that supports a compelling range of IT services.”

According to AMI Partners, a global market research firm, IT departments for the more than 35 million small-medium businesses (fewer than 100 employees) worldwide spent more than $12 billion on networking and telecom-related infrastructure in 2005. That number is expected to grow to nearly $19 by 2010.

“The combination of PowerQUICC processors and Jungo software will allow customer premises equipment manufacturers to rapidly target the SMB market by leveraging the strength of a highly differentiated solution that has already been integrated for them,” said Udi Yuhjtman, Jungo’s vice president of business development. “Freescale and Jungo are delivering on a shared vision for the ‘connected office’ in which small businesses can receive all the IT services of their enterprise counterparts, and can now do so to fit their smaller budgets.”

"Vitesse is excited to participate in this initiative with Freescale and Jungo," added Martyn Humphries, vice president and general manager of Vitesse Semiconductor's Ethernet Products Division. “The Office-in-a-Box platform addresses customer requirements for an all-in-one, easy-to-manage networking system solution. Our market leading SparX family, tailored for SMB networking applications, provides the switch and PHY foundation for the MPC8349E mITX platform. It enables this solution to be developed at the right cost point because of Vitesse's proven leadership in delivering integrated Gigabit Ethernet switch and PHY solutions."