Freescale and Jungo Partner to Drive Down Cost of SMB Networking Equipment

Office-in-a-Box reference platform based on PowerQUICC™ processor, Vitesse Gigabit switch and Jungo software designed to enable multi-service media gateways

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.”

Availability

The Office-in-a-Box reference platform is planned to be available in May. For system design and preliminary pricing information, please contact your local Freescale sales representative or an authorized Freescale distributor.

About the MPC8349E mITX platform

The Office-in-a-Box reference platform is available in the compact, 170mm x 170mm mini-ITX form factor, which makes it easy to design small-footprint home NAS systems. The hardware centerpiece of the reference platform is the MPC8349E mITX reference board, featuring the 667-MHz MPC8349E PowerQUICC II Pro processor. The platform also includes a robust memory subsystem, a four-port USB 2.0 interface, a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch from Vitesse, an on-board 4-port PCI serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) controller, a 32-bit PCI slot, a 32-bit MiniPCI slot, a two-port RS-232C interface, a power supply and a SATA hard drive.

In addition to Jungo’s OpenRG and OpenSMB software, the Office-in-a-Box reference platform ships with the Linux® 2.6.x operating system with Samba on Flash. Schematics, layout files and Gerber files are available online.

About Jungo’s Software platforms

Jungo’s OpenRG for the residential market and OpenSMB for the business market are scalable suites of software technologies that provide CPE vendors with the infrastructure needed to bring to market home, SOHO and SMB gateways, such as firewall/VPN, converged voice/data gateways, wireless access points and security appliances. OpenRG and OpenSMB significantly simplify development cycles, improve product performance and accelerate time-to-market with new revenue generating services. OpenRG and OpenSMB include 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), Universal Plug and Play, web-based management, remote upgrade capabilities, support for CableHome 1.1-based devices, and a wide range of home and business networking applications.

About Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500®, is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, with 2004 sales of $5.7 billion (USD).

For fore information visit www.freescale.com.

About Vitesse

Vitesse designs, develops and markets a diverse portfolio of high-performance, cost-competitive semiconductor solutions for communications and storage networks worldwide. Engineering excellence and dedicated customer service distinguish Vitesse as an industry leader in Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Ethernet-over-SONET, Advanced Switching, Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, Optical Transport, and other applications. Vitesse innovation empowers customers to deliver superior products for Enterprise, Access, Metro, and Core applications. Additional company and product information is available at www.vitesse.com.

About Jungo

Jungo is a leading provider of software products and solutions that power residential broadband service offerings and connectivity solutions. Our residential broadband products enable 40 million of the world’s residential gateways. Our connected home, application framework and remote management solutions let service providers easily launch value-added broadband services and manage and monitor their delivery. Jungo’s unique home broadband offerings enable service providers to accelerate the introduction of a variety of innovative, revenue generating digital home services, while enhancing their competitive edge and reducing operational costs.
Jungo’s connectivity solutions division offers extensive connectivity software solutions for USB and PCI, including WinDriver™, a driver development toolkit that enables developers to quickly create custom device drivers that can run on a multitude of operating systems without modification, and USBware™, a complete, high-quality embedded USB software protocol stack, allowing device manufacturers to easily incorporate standard USB OTG/Host/Device connectivity in their designs.

Jungo is owned by NDS, a leading global provider of end-to-end software solutions for the pay television industry. Jungo is owned by NDS, a leading global provider of end-to-end software solutions for the pay television industry. To learn more, visit www.jungo.com.

 

By barak in Uncategorized on April 3, 2006