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.
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