Jungo and National Semiconductor Collaborate to Speed Development of Residential Gateways

Jungo’s OpenRG software solution bundled with National’s Geode processor-based reference design enable OEMs to quickly develop residential gateways

Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, Calif., November 9, 2001

Jungo Software Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of driver development tools and software solutions for broadband access, and National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM), the leading provider of analog technology and information appliance solutions, today announced a strategic alliance to enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly develop residential gateways.

National Semiconductor will distribute development platforms featuring National’s award winning Geode™ processor bundled with Jungo’s OpenRG software solution to OEMs for the evaluation and development of residential gateways.

“With many vendors promoting box solutions of similar features, Jungo’s OpenRG software can provide the differentiation that OEMs seek,” said Jeff Waters, Director of the Consumer Access Business Unit at National Semiconductor. “Jungo’s expertise in networking software and software development tools coupled with National’s development platform enables OEM’s to quickly create differentiated residential gateway products for their customers.”

Geode™ processor, featuring high performance and low power consumption, is specifically designed to power information appliances. Its x86 core leverages a variety of peripherals such as Ethernet, wireless cards andHard drives that are designed to use standard PC hardware interfaces such as PCI, USB and IDE.

“As the broadband access market burgeons, OEMs are facing fierce competition and therefore are looking for an out-of-the-box solution,” said Udi Yuhjtman, Vice President of Operations and Business Development for Jungo. “We are delighted to partner with National Semiconductor, a leader in the Information Appliances market, to jointly deliver a solution that will significantly reduce gateway and application development time for Integrated Access Device manufacturers, enabling them to offer value added services and applications to the broadband residential and small office market.”

Jungo’s OpenRG software design delivers a modular solution that includes a Linux-based operating system, drivers and communication stacks for varying network configurations, and revenue generating services such as ‘plug and play’ home networking, Stateful Inspection Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN). Remote management and provisioning capabilities, together with a robust development environment and open Application Program Interface (API), make OpenRG a highly scalable solution.

 See Jungo and National at Comdex

National and Jungo are exhibiting OpenRG V1.0 running on residential gateway designs with National’s Geode GX1 and Geode SCX200 processors at Comdex Fall 2001 in Las Vegas Nevada Convention Center, November 12-16, 2001, at National Semiconductor’s booth L3005.

Availability

National will distribute its SP4SC30 development platform with Jungo’s OpenRG software. The SP4SC30 platform uses National® Geode™ SCX200 IA-on-a-chip. The platform, the chip and Jungo’s software are available immediately. For further information, contact Jungo at openrg@jungo.com or visit the National website link: http://www.national.com/appinfo/solutions/0,2062,194,00.html.

 About National Semiconductor

National Semiconductor is the premier analog company driving the information age. Combining real-world analog and state-of-the-art digital technology, the company is focused on the fast growing markets for wireless handsets; information appliances; information infrastructure; and display, imaging and human interface technologies. With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, National reported sales of $2.1 billion for fiscal year 2001 and employs about 9,700 people worldwide. Additional company and product information is available on the World Wide Web at www.national.com.

National is a registered trademark and Geode is a trademark of National Semiconductor.

 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/st.

 

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