Centillium and Jungo Collaborate on Telco-Grade Residential and
Business Gateway Platforms
Palladia gateway chipset and Jungo's OpenRG TM
/OpenSMB TM
software
offer feature-rich platform for operators and equipment
manufacturers
Fremont, Calif. - October 10, 2007Centillium Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTLM) has partnered with Jungo
Ltd. to develop an integrated software platform for Centillium's
Palladia
TM
high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for
residential and business ADSL and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP)
residential and business gateway applications. The integration of Jungo's
widely adopted OpenRG
TM
and OpenSMB
TM
software with the
gateway-on-chip solution offers Operator and OEM customers the opportunity
to select the platform that best accommodates their application and
network requirements.
"The Jungo flexible and feature-rich gateway software platforms work
in perfect conjunction with Centillium's powerful Palladia product suite
to integrate extremely high quality voice services and formidable routing
capabilities within a single, high-powered chipset," noted Gilad Brand,
Jungo's Director of Product Marketing. "The demand for voice services
over ADSL is growing, and Operators and OEMs will look to Palladia and
OpenRG for the robust features, reliability and interoperability to meet
their goals in the residential and business marketplace."
"Next-generation broadband networks are placing an ever-increasing
premium on gateway performance, and that performance will be measured not
only in extreme data rates but in rich functionality to power dynamic
triple-play services while maintaining quality of experience and always-on
service levels for the consumer," said Bill McDonald, Director of
Product Marketing. The joint efforts of Jungo and Centillium promise a
superior solution for the demands of next-generation applications."
Mated to Centillium's Palladia SoC product, the comprehensive
functionality of Jungo's OpenRG and OpenSMB gives gateway and integrated
access device manufacturers a strong foundation for accelerating product
development, and offers carriers a trusted platform for rapid, reliable and
profitable deployment of new VoIP services over ADSL networks.
About Palladia 402
The Palladia 402 is the world's first integrated VoIP solution for the ADSL
markets. A highly integrated design and high-performance processing assure
a rich feature set for voice communications and data transfer while
minimizing costs and enhancing time to market. Palladia 402 integrates a
network processor, as well as multiple dedicated hardware engines -
including a voice digital signal processor, a packet header processor,
and an encryption accelerator - that assist the network processor by
off-loading many routine tasks. The Palladia 402 serves as a fully
integrated data pump for ADSL2/2+/2++ networks with speeds of up to 50
Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream. Additionally, Palladia 402 supports
Ethernet and USB LAN interfaces, and a PCI interface with a glueless
interface to many mini-PCI WIFI modules.
Availability
The OpenRG software platform for Palladia gateway SoC solutions is currently
in development for Centillium's and Jungo's mutual customers. Reference
designs will be available in early Q4 2007.
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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