Media Center: Press Release
Jungo Unveils MediaCore™ Multimedia Management Middleware for Automotive Infotainment Systems
Highlights:
- MediaCore™ from Jungo Ltd. enables in-car infotainment system manufacturers to integrate seamless media access, control and streaming infrastructure
- MediaCore provides end-to-end infotainment middleware – from
hardware access to unified APIs for the HMI layer
- Jungo’s off-the-shelf MediaCore reference platform is available
today
SAN JOSE, CA – June 2, 2009 —Jungo
Ltd., a leading
provider of USB software connectivity solutions, today introduced
the launch of its MediaCore™ Automotive Middleware solution
for in-car infotainment systems. MediaCore leverages Jungo’s
advanced USBware™ protocol stack to facilitate industry-compliant
connectivity with any USB device. It also provides infotainment
system manufacturers with all of the components necessary to
index, control, synchronise and stream audio, video and images
from personal media players, USB mobile storage, smartphones,
and cameras to in-car systems.
Enabling end-to-end connectivity, MediaCore unifies access
to any media source that utilizes USB network transports. This
includes devices such as Apple iPod, MP3/MP4 players, flash
drives, local hard disks, CD/DVDs and mobile phones. With Jungo’s
MediaCore, all connected media sources are filtered through
a media gateway and are controlled via an intuitive, unified
API. This eliminates the complexity of direct protocol implementations
and enables a single application to control and access all
media sources. Native support for advanced media protocols
(such as MTP and Apple iPod) is enabled through Jungo’s
media API reduction technology which allows applications to
select and play songs using only three function calls.
The MediaCore architecture includes easy-to-use hardware-
and software-agnostic middleware that eliminates the need for
complex in-house platform development. Its software design
enables seamless porting to any environment and re-use of the
foundation software blocks across multiple platforms. Off-the-shelf
support for MediaCore is available for leading OS and processor
platforms including QNX, Win CE, Linux, μitron, VxWorks,
VDK, Renesas, Freescale, Analog Devices and TI.
“As multimedia devices proliferate in the consumer market,
in-car infotainment system manufacturers are competing to maintain
native support through their platforms,” said Ophir Herbst,
Vice President and General Manager of Jungo’s Connectivity
Software Division. “MediaCore is a perfect solution because
it provides unified middleware that enables them to keep pace
with device support requirements. This shortens their product
development cycle and enhances market success and bottom-line
profitability,” he said.
“Car buyers increasingly want device connectivity and
media support to bring their rich media content -- already
ubiquitous in the home and office -- to the in-car experience,” said
Mark Fitzgerald, Senior Analyst in the Global Automotive Group
at leading global research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics.
He continued: “Jungo’s MediaCore solution provides
in-car infotainment system manufacturers with an end-to-end
framework for developing elegant, feature-rich systems using
unified APIs, enabling consumers to enjoy access to content
on their favorite devices.”
Evaluation
boards with MediaCore software are available from
Jungo for qualified infotainment system manufacturers.
At Telematics
Detroit 2009, Ilya Lifshitz, Jungo Connectivity
Business Unit CTO, will be participating in a panel session
entitled “How to Achieve In-Car Systems Integration” on
June 3, at 13.45 in the Sapphire Room at the Rock Financial
Showplace, 46100 Grand River Avenue, Novi, MI 48374
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 a variety of connectivity software solutions
for USB and PCI. These include WinDriver™, a driver development
toolkit that enables developers to create custom device drivers
that can run on a multitude of operating systems without modification.
DriverCore™ offers standard USB drivers, allowing device
manufacturers to expose a variety of native communication interfaces
via USB to different operating systems and platforms. USBware™ is
a complete, high quality and small footprint embedded USB software
protocol stack, allowing device manufacturers to incorporate
standard USB connectivity easily in their designs. MediaCore™ enables
automotive infotainment systems manufacturers to integrate
a complete hardware and media access, control and streaming
infrastructure into their products. To find out more about
Jungo, 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 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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| For further information: |
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| Jungo |
| Shiri Ram |
T: +972.54 4510599 |
| Manager, Marketing Communications |
shirir@jungo.com |
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| Rainier Communications for Jungo |
T: +1 508 475 0025 x142 |
| Colin Boroski, Senior Account Manager |
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