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Médiamétrie and Jungo Team Up to Offer Data Collecting Software Solution through Residential Gateways


Highlights:
  • Jungo and Médiamétrie join forces to provide focused, real-time broadband usage data
  • Allows service providers and advertisers to deliver focused offerings to different demographic groups based on their preferences and habits
  • Jungo’s HomeSense™ technology collects the raw data logs while Médiamétrie adds a layer of intelligence, creating accurate audience measurement data

LEVALLOIS, FRANCE and SAN JOSE, CA – March 16, 2009 – Jungo Ltd, an NDS Group company, a leading provider of software solutions for residential gateways, and Médiamétrie, a leading specialist in media research, today announced that they have joined forces to create a unique mechanism for collecting data relating to user habits and preferences in today’s digital home. The new software solution resides in the triple-play residential gateway and enables service providers to target new service offerings tailored to the subscriber’s specific profile

The solution is centred around HomeSense™, a unique software solution developed by Jungo which enables the real-time collection of data on user preferences, while complying with local market regulations. The residential gateway is effectively the intersection point between the network and the household. Thus it has a unique view of the entire digital traffic flow that is being carried on all the multiple devices within the home. This traffic includes the complete range of broadband services including internet browsing, mobile telephony, IPTV, network gaming, VoIP, etc.

HomeSense, part of Jungo’s OpenRG™ residential gateway software, can extract user information which, coupled with Médiametrie’s expertise on behaviour analysis, enables the operator to provide better services to subscribers, and to offer new features targeted to the subscriber’s specific profile. Data can be collected from a broad cross-section of the installed base, rather than relying on just a small focus group. In addition, Jungo's HomeSense provides full identification of the type, model and status of all home network devices and performs statistical analysis of all media uses offered by digital access.

Jungo gateway software collects the raw data logs on user consumption in real time, while the Mediametrie tools correlate the data and add a layer of intelligence that turns these raw logs into accurate audience measurement datasheets for use by service providers. This unique offering constitutes an important step towards enabling the enhanced analysis of habits and preferences in digital households - benefiting not only service providers, but advertisers, and, additionally, consumers, who will gain access to content and services that will be more likely to appeal to them.

Laurent Battais, Performance and Cross-media Director at Médiamétrie, said: “The technology developed by Jungo is particularly innovative and interesting, as it resides at the crossroads between the network and the household. It enables a more in-depth assessment of the habits and tastes in the digital home.”

Nicolas Decitre, France and Benelux Business Development Director at Jungo, added: “This solution is set to appeal to service providers in France and abroad. By offering a joint solution with Mediametrie we have true ability to offer service providers ongoing, real time information on their users’ preferences.”

About Médiamétrie
Médiamétrie measures audiences and conducts media research for companies within the media and communications market. Its mission is to provide measurement of audiences and of audiovisual and digital media performance with a level of quality that will make it the reference for all market participants. Created in 1985, Médiamétrie is expanding its activities in television, radio, the internet, film, mobile phones, and the cross-media sector in France and abroad. Médiamétrie Group realised a turnover of €55 million in 2007.

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 minimising 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 more than 99 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 108 million devices. NDS DVR technology, centred around XTV™, leads the global industry with 17 million units deployed. (Deployment figures as of 31st December 2008)

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 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.

For further information:
Laure Osmanian Molinero
Médiamétrie
T: +33 (0)1 47 58 97 55
losmanian@mediametrie.fr
Shelly Aks
Jungo Ltd.
T: +972-9-8859365 ext. 293
shelly@jungo.com