Jungo and Atheros Unveil Draft 2.0 802.11n Reference Designs For High

New Wireless Gateway Platforms Support High-Quality IPTV, Gaming, VoD and Fixed Mobile Convergence Services

Santa Clara, Calif., and San Jose, Calif., September 11, 2007

Atheros Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR), a leading developer of advanced wireless solutions, and Jungo Ltd., a leading provider of broadband gateway middleware, today announced a productionready platform for residential triple-play gateways and business gateways. The new platforms consist of Atheros’ 802.11n chipsets with Jungo’s OpenRG TM (residential) and OpenSMB TM (small business) gateway software. This allows OEMs and operators to quickly bring to market wireless broadband customer premise equipment that supports the latest bandwidth-hungry and latency-sensitive consumer applications like IPTV, video-on demand, multi-room DVR, gaming, Internet radio, podcasts, VoIP and fixed mobile convergence in the home or office.
The need for WLANs is rapidly increasing with wireless products making it easier to share and distribute multimedia. In order to support this consumer demand, the home wireless network must deliver the capacity required for a growing number of media applications and services. Jungo’s feature-rich, high-performance OpenRG and OpenSMB gateway software platforms integrated with Atheros’ XSPAN TM 802.11n dual-band concurrent (2.4/5GHz) technology with up to 300Mbps data rates per band deliver sophisticated features and robust performance at range, which is essential for carriers that want to enable a true triple-play home experience.

According to a recent iSuppli report1, two-thirds of consumers want their televisions to connect to the Internet. To support this consumer demand, home networking is migrating beyond its PC-centric beginnings to incorporate a variety of entertainment-oriented consumer electronics devices including DVD recorders, digital televisions, multi-room DVRs, digital media adapters, set-top-boxes and video game consoles. Shipments of these network-equipped devices, along with consumer PCs and home network bridges and gateways, are expected to increase to 732.9 million units by 2011, more than triple the 225.3 million that were shipped in 2006.

“By 2011, Wi-Fi will be the most common network interface in the home, followed by Cat 5, power line and coax,” said Steve Rago, principal analyst, networking/optical communications for iSuppli. “The ease of installing 802.11n will make it the choice of many home networking consumers.”

Atheros’ XSPAN draft 2.0 802.11n chipsets are featured in a growing number of wireless products ranging from home and enterprise-class access points to laptops and highly compact, thumb-size USB adapters. To ensure the highest standard of Wi-Fi performance and interoperability with the rapidly growing number of 802.11n devices, Atheros XSPAN dual-band 802.11n AP/router, CardBus and PCI Express client reference designs are Wi-Fi® CERTIFIED. In addition, the AP/router and CardBus designs were selected for inclusion in the Wi-Fi Alliance Draft 2.0 802.11n Test Program.

“We’ve combined Jungo’s advanced gateway software with Atheros’ XSPAN 802.11n performance to satisfy consumers’ appetite for wireless multimedia applications,” said Mike Stauffer, director of marketing for the carrier business with Atheros. “Users want to move their content from the broadband entry point, the residential gateway, to any device in the home. Atheros’ wireless LAN enables the gateway to distribute the latest IPTV and video services in addition to supporting VoIP, Internet access and advanced wireless services.”

Carriers are classifying consumers into two user segments: those who want 802.11n multimedia applications and those who only require basic 802.11g data networking applications like e-mail, web surfing and file transfers.

“We see consumer demand for pervasive entertainment continuously growing, rendering the gateway as the digital home media orchestrator, serving new applications and distributing content throughout the home,” said Gilad Brand, director of product marketing for Jungo. “Atheros’ 802.11n technology will help our broadband CPE customers support the growing operator demand for the rapid introduction of value-added services that create new revenue streams.”

Jungo’s OpenRG software speeds development of gateways with a modular architecture that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) for a wide range of popular services and functions, including IPTV, home media distribution, WLAN, home network security, QoS, VoIP, IP-PBX, remote file access and parental control. This robust functionality gives gateway manufacturers enhanced flexibility for rapidly developing market-specific products.

Atheros’ 802.11n solutions are optimized for whole home coverage with significantly increased bandwidth capacity up to 400 Mbps of real user throughput2 using the company’s XSPAN with Signal-Sustain Technology TM (SST). Only home gateways featuring XSPAN with SST offer industry-leading wireless signal reliability which results from the world’s only 3-transmitter/3-receiver (3Tx/3Rx) MIMO design. Atheros’ innovative triple-radio architecture delivers higher throughput at greater distances than conventional 2×2 MIMO solutions, providing a distinct competitive advantage for carriers and ISPs looking to differentiate their gateways by delivering the ultimate wireless user experience.

1″Home Networking: In Search of a Killer Connection” iSuppli, July 2007
2Performance based on a dual-band concurrent 2.4/5GHz gateway reference design.

About Atheros Communication, Inc.

Atheros Communications is a leading developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless and other network communications products. Atheros combines its wireless and networking systems expertise with high-performance radio frequency (RF), mixed signal and digital semiconductor design skills to provide highly integrated chipsets that are manufactured on low-cost, standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes. Atheros technology is being used by a broad base of leading customers, including personal computer, networking equipment and consumer device manufacturers.
For more information, please visit http://www.atheros.com or send email to info@atheros.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.

About NDS

NDS Group Ltd. creates the technologies and applications that enable pay-TV operators to securely deliver digital content to TV STBs (set-top boxes), DVRs (digital video recorders), PCs, mobiles and other multimedia devices. Over 90 of the world’s leading pay-TV platforms rely on NDS solutions to protect and enhance their business.
NDS’ VideoGuard® is the world’s market-leading content and service protection solution, deployed in 133 million pay-TV households. VideoGuard conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) technologies safeguard pay-TV service revenues exceeding $50 billion. NDS middleware, which enables a host of advanced services for subscribers, has been deployed on 226 million devices. NDS DVR technology, centred around XTV™, is a leader in the global industry with 49 million units deployed. (Deployment figures as of 30th April 2012).

Headquartered in the UK, with over 5000 employees, NDS remains committed to investing in technology and development with over 75% of its employees dedicated to pioneering work at development centres in France, India, Israel, Korea, UK and US.

NDS Group Ltd. is a private company owned by the Permira Funds and News Corporation. See www.nds.com for more information.

 

By barak in Uncategorized on September 11, 2007