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ZON TVCabo Selects Jungo Middleware for its Next-Generation DOCSIS 3.0 Home and Business Gateways


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Highlights:
* Portugal’s ZON TVCabo, a ZON Multimedia company, chooses Jungo’s OpenRG™ residential gateway middleware, OpenSMB™ business gateway middleware, SCR™ Support Cost Reduction offering and JRMS™ Remote Management System for its new ZON Net Wideband™ and ZON Empresas™ home and small office gateways
* Jungo’s OpenRG and Open SMB middleware will help provide ZON TVCabo’s residential and business customers an advanced digital networking experience powered by a DOCSIS 3.0 gateway, ensuring greater bandwidth capabilities and a broader array of services
* By providing ZON TVCabo with a software solution that is hardware-agnostic, ZON TVCabo now has a unique competitive advantage and the flexibility to future-proof ZON TVCabo offerings and launch new, next-generation services more quickly and easily
* Jungo’s SCR solution to significantly decrease ZON TVCabo customer support costs while improving their satisfaction

SAN JOSE, USA - Jungo Ltd., an NDS Group company and a leading provider of software solutions for residential gateways, today announced that ZON TVCabo, a subsidiary of ZON Multimedia and Portugal’s largest triple-play cable operator, has chosen a suite of Jungo’s broadband software solutions to support the operator’s residential and business customers. ZON TVCabo has selected Jungo’s OpenRG™ and OpenSMB™ DOCSIS 3.0 gateway middleware for its new ZON Net Wideband™ and ZON Empresas™ home and small office gateways, as well as the newly available SCR™ (Support Cost Reduction) offering for cable operators and the JRMS™ (Jungo Remote Management System).

“We were seeking to provide our customers with DOCSIS 3.0 gateways with wireless and voice capabilities that deliver the highest possible value while minimizing our capital expenditure. We realized early on that hardware and software do not need to come from the same vendor and, in fact, that the separation of the two is a great way to enable true flexibility now and in the future,” said Luis Lopes, Executive Director of ZON Multimedia. Nuno Sanches, Internet Products Director at ZON TVCabo added: “We selected Jungo for the software side of the equation as they are the market experts in hardware-agnostic gateway middleware.”

Using Jungo technology, home subscribers can enjoy the broadest spectrum of multimedia offerings, including complete broadband access, 802.11n wireless, IP telephony, highly secure high-speed web access, print sharing, file sharing, UpNP AV media sharing – all without the need for additional devices. Small business users will benefit from Jungo’s “office-in-a-box” solution that delivers a wide range of valuable business features such as advanced PBX over SIP capabilities for multiple users as well as two PacketCable voice ports for fax and a credit card swipe reader, all with minimized setup and maintenance costs.

“Our relationship with ZON TVCabo represents another key step forward in Jungo’s broadband business development,” said Eran Rom, Jungo CEO. “More and more operators are realizing the significant benefits of our flexible broadband software solutions. TVCabo is a forward-thinking company who were quick to recognize the trend towards implementing hardware-agnostic technologies, and seized on it. We are very pleased to work with these true innovators in support of their next-generation DOCSIS 3.0 wireless gateway.”

In addition to the OpenRG residential gateway middleware for consumers and OpenSMB, business gateway middleware for small and home offices (SOHO), ZON TVCabo also chose the Jungo Support Cost Reduction (SCR) solution for cable service providers, whose availability was announced in April 2009. Jungo’s SCR solution is an intelligent mechanism residing both in the cable gateway and on the central office side which identifies problems in the home network, activates a “self healing” mechanism or provides clear troubleshooting guidance to subscribers when needed. It also equips customer support staff with a range of tools to quickly identify and resolve problems remotely, thereby significantly reducing operational costs and increasing subscriber satisfaction.

About ZON Multimedia
With over 1.5 million TV, 540,000 broadband and 400,000 fixed-line customers, ZON Multimedia is Portugal’s leading provider of triple play offerings. Originally a cable TV operator, ZON now offers multiple services across several platforms: cable, satellite, ADSL and GSM. Additionally, ZON is Portugal’s leading content distribution and cinema exhibition company, through its ZON Lusomundo business. For more information, visit ZON at www.zon.pt.

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 operator’s support cost 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 worldwide. Operators deploying Jungo-powered gateways can rapidly and easily introduce new value added services that drive revenues and increase ARPU.

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 70 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 104 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 115 million devices. NDS DVR technology, centred around XTV™, leads the global industry with 19 million units deployed. (Deployment figures as of 31st March 2009).

Headquartered in the UK, NDS remains committed to investing in R&D with over 75% of its employees dedicated to pioneering work at development centers 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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