Jungo Fast Channel Switching Solution to Deliver Enhanced IPTV User Experience

October 2, 2008
Highlights:
  • Jungo's new software helps IPTV providers offer subscribers a user-friendly channel-switching experience that matches cable and satellite
  • Jungo's OpenRG TM solution enables fast channel changing without sacrificing picture quality
  • Patent-pending software operates with any off-the-shelf IPTV Set-Top Box (STB)
SAN JOSE, USA October 2, 2008 Broadband World Forum Europe, Brussels Expo, Booth #143Jungo Ltd, a leading provider of software solutions for residential nnounced that its OpenRG TM residential gateway software now supports a patent-ice providers to enhance consumers' IPTV experience by improving the channel-switching performance of broadband access equipment.

Subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE) is critical to the success of an IPTV service. While there are many factors affecting IPTV service quality such as picture quality, transport and reliability a key QoE element is how quickly and reliably subscribers can change TV channels.

Subscribers expect switching between hundreds of channels to be smooth and fast. However, in reality, IPTV users often experience slow response times, and sub-standard picture quality, further affected by pixelation. These problems tend to increase in homes with multiple STBs.

A channel switching delay of under two seconds is considered acceptable to users. Jungo's new technology removes channel-switching overheads by employing an innovative mix of tactics, including an enhancement of the regular IGMP Leave and Fast- Leave operations - otherwise known as 'Aggressive Leave' the monitoring of available resources such as bandwidth and virtual circuits (VCs), and intelligent bandwidth usage assumptions. The new solution from Jungo can be used on any off-the-shelf STB.

OpenRG, Jungo's complete residential gateway solution, helps service providers to successfully introduce and grow triple play services. By reducing channel switching time across their networks, IPTV service providers can be more confident that they will meet the expectations of their subscribers.

Arik Gilad, Jungo's Chief Technology Officer, commented: "Channel switching time is a major issue in the IPTV industry. Jungo is pleased to be able to offer operators a solution that will deliver an enhanced experience to users, and therefore help service providers to grow their businesses".

About OpenRGTM
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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