Infineon And Jungo Partner To Deliver Carrier-Grade Residential Gateway Platform

October 09, 2007
Service Providers deploying gateways based on the new platform can dramatically increase revenue streams by offering new services for home subscribers

Neubiberg, Germany, and San Jose, CA - October 09, 2007Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX) and Jungo Ltd., today announced a partnership to deliver production-ready, carrier-grade reference designs for the multi-service residential gateway market. The partnership enables customers to offer complete solutions for operator-specific products based on a pre-integrated, carrier-ready software platform from Jungo and Infineon's communications chips. Furthermore, it also helps significantly reduce the customer's time-to-market by shortening in-house design cycles by up to 50 percent. The new design is available for ADSL2/ 2+ and VDSL solutions.

"This cooperation with Jungo, the market leader in embedded software for residential gateways, will enable our customers to bring their products faster to market and leverage the silicon's value and capabilities", said Christian Wolff, Senior Vice President of the Communication Solutions business group and General Manager of the Wireline Access business unit at Infineon. "Furthermore this partnership will help, complete our offerings in the residential gateway market and additionally strengthen our business."

"Jungo's vision of the 'digital home' is one where the operator offers a plethora of managed value-added-services. By delivering managed easy-to-use targeted services, the provider can both retain and reclaim the customer relationship, and maximize the revenue potential of the subscriber base," said Ofer Vilenski, Jungo's CEO. "Jungo and Infineon are helping operators drive this vision," he commented.

Infineon is focusing on three key areas of business: Energy Efficiency, Communications and Security. The company plans to grow in these areas and strengthen existing businesses. This partnership contributes positively to Infineon's CPE-business and growth in the Communications area.

About the platform offerings
The gateway design is targeted at OEMs developing carrier grade CPE that can offer high-performance, next generation multi-service gateways. Service Providers deploying gateways based on the new platform can increase revenue streams by offering new revenue-generating services such as IPTV, video surveillance and Video on Demand (VoD).

The new reference design, for ADSL2/2+ (using Infineon's Danube IAD-on-a-Chip solution) and VDSL (using the TwinPass-VE and the Vinax-CPE), offers a wide range of popular services and functions, including IPTV, home media distribution, WLAN, firewall, VoIP, remote file access and parental control. This robust functionality gives gateway manufacturers the flexibility they need for rapidly developing market-specific products such as triple-play residential gateways, DSL, integrated access devices (IADs), wireless access points, voice and Private Branch exchange (PBX) gateways, VPN routers and home storage routers.

About Infineon
Infineon Ventures GmbH, the corporate venture capital arm of Infineon Technologies AG with offices in Munich (Germany) and San Jose (California), today manages a portfolio of 35 start-up companies. Since October 1998 up to date, venture capital of approximately 150 million dollars has been spent in form of minority equity investments. The investment activities are global in region and focus in industry sector on early-stage and start-up companies in microelectronics and communications. More information is available at http://www.infineonventures.com.
About OpenRG
Jungo's OpenRG™ software for residential gateways enables delivery of innovative, usable and manageable value-added services to the evolving digital home, while minimizing the telco's support costs and VAS time-to-market. OpenRG supports all popular home networks and access networks, and includes high-performance feature-rich VAS enablers, such as QoS, VoIP, Firewall and Remote management, as well as a growing set of value-added services. Millions of Jungo-based gateways are deployed
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.

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