PARIS, FRANCE Broadband World Forum, Stand H3 – 27.10 2010 – Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, and Jungo Ltd, a leading provider of software solutions for residential gateways, today announced that the two companies have integrated Jungo’s OpenRG™ residential gateway software and Marvell’s AVANTA™ Application Gateway–on-a-Chip (GoC). With the new residential gateway reference platform, service providers and network operators will have easier access to always-on home services and value-added applications while increasing average revenue per user.
Newest to Marvell’s AVANTA family of broadband optical solutions, the Application GoC integrates Marvell’s flagship 2 GHz Application Processor, optical broadband, with smartphone-like power management, and Ethernet switch and transceiver integration. The AVANTA Application GoC is the first to introduce Universal PON (UPON) interface with seamless auto-sensing and auto-configuration between ITU-GPON, IEEE-EPON, China-specific EPPON, and Point-2-Point Gigabit Ethernet.
The UPON residential gateway platform powered by Jungo’s OpenRG software offers a managed gateway with intelligent data routing with quality of service (QoS), carrier-class VoIP, IPv6 support, and virtual private networks with firewalls. The platform also provides seamless support for multiple wide area network (WAN) and local area network (LAN) technologies, including EPON, GPON Gigabit Ethernet, USB and WiFi. The modular software architecture is easily tailored to offer additional capabilities and services.
“Marvell is pleased to collaborate with Jungo and offer a total solution home application gateway platform to service providers and network operators,” said Nafea Bshara, Vice President of Technology and Strategy for the Enterprise Business Unit at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. “Our collaboration with Jungo offers customers a field- proven, cost-effective, and scalable solution for the fast growing optical broadband gateway and service-router market. Combining the superior architecture and performance of the AVANTA GoC with Jungo’s OpenRG™ software suite enables Marvell to bring to market a complete, ready-to-deploy, open source-friendly application gateway platform.”
“Service providers strive to build and maintain their presence and service uptake within the subscriber’s digital home in order to increase their average revenue per user and reduce customer churn, while maintaining a high performance and cost effective service delivery ,” said Mr. Rami Amit, Jungo’s CTO. “Our collaboration with Marvell, using their broadband gateway processors, delivers a comprehensive solution for deploying and managing the multi-service connected home.”
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. The company’s diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the terms “company” and “Marvell” refer to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit www.marvell.com.
About Jungo
Jungo Ltd., an NDS Group company, is a provider of broadband home value-added service solutions. Jungo’s flagship products, OpenRG™ (residential gateway software platform) and OpenSMB™ (small and medium business gateway software platform) enable broadband operators to deliver managed revenue-generating services to the digital home.
Jungo also 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.
To find out more about Jungo Ltd. and our products, please 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 75 of the world’s leading pay-TV platforms rely on NDS solutions to protect and enhance their businesses. VideoGuard® is the world’s market-leading conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) technology, currently deployed on 138 million active devices, and safeguarding pay-TV service revenues exceeding $40 billion. NDS middleware, including MediaHighway® which enables a host of advanced services for subscribers, has been deployed on 163 million devices. NDS DVR technology, centred around XTV™, leads the global industry with 33 million units deployed. (Deployment figures as of 30th September 2010).
Headquartered in the UK, NDS remains committed to investing in R&D with over 75% of its employees dedicated to pioneering work at development centres in China, Denmark, France, India, Israel, Korea, UK and US. NDS has also implemented a host of initiatives aimed at reducing its carbon footprint and helping digital TV subscribers reduce energy consumption.
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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