Partner Communications Selects Jungo’s OpenRG™ Software for New SmartBox™ Gateway
Highlights:
- Partner Communications has selected Jungo’s OpenRG™ residential gateway software for its new SmartBox™ home gateway which launched to Israeli subscribers in December 2008
- Gateway software is a key service differentiator and Jungo’s
OpenRG software is helping Partner Communications to launch
innovative new services, giving customers a true digital home experience
- Partner Communications will benefit from best-of-breed software,
including the opportunity to increase ARPU, while reducing
support and maintenance costs
SAN JOSE, CA – January 26, 2009 – Jungo
Ltd, a leading provider of broadband residential gateway software
solutions, and Partner Communications, a leading Israeli mobile
telecoms operator, have reached an agreement that sees Jungo
integrating its OpenRG™ residential gateway software into
Partner’s new SmartBox™ home gateway, part of the
operator’s innovative new home communications offering.
OpenRG software delivers Partner Communications a range of capabilities
as well as a platform for introducing and launching new value
added services. With Jungo's remote upgrade capability, an
operator can load customized middleware onto deployed gateways
from almost any vendor, and therefore can introduce new
services without the need to replace its installed base. OpenRG
also provides a suite of functionalities to substantially reduce
operational costs. These include transparent fault-finding, and
user-focused troubleshooting that helps minimize support calls.
With SmartBox, launched in December 2008, Partner Communications'
customers will enjoy advanced broadband services such as 802.11n
wireless network, advanced VoIP capabilities including integrated
DECT, call hijacking between cellular and fixed line, home media
sharing and other services.
“The ability to offer new innovative services to our customers
is central to Partner Communications’ strategy,” said
Alon Berman, Partner Communications VP Internet and Broadband. “The
residential gateway is now at the heart of the digital home,
and key enabler of the advanced services that our customers want.
We chose Jungo OpenRG for the new SmartBox because Jungo’s
proven, flexible and open software allows us to offer our subscribers
new levels of seamlessly-integrated access and interaction with
a wide range of entertainment and communication services.”
“Jungo is proud to have been chosen to be part of this
bold new venture, and to support Partner Communications with
our feature-rich, reliable, high-quality residential gateway
software,” said Eran Rom, Jungo's CEO. “We look forward
to helping Partner Communications customers experience the benefits
of a truly digital home, enabled by our OpenRG software.”
OpenRG is a hardware-agnostic gateway software platform which
gives operators maximum freedom in selecting gateway hardware,
and thanks to its remote upgrade capability, OpenRG provides
full flexibility for future service enhancements. This saves
operators substantial costs when expanding and upgrading existing
and future gateway designs.
About Partner Communications
Partner Communications is a leading Israeli mobile communications
operator providing GSM / GPRS / UMTS / HSDPA services and wire
free applications. Partner Communications provides quality service
and a range of features to 2.882 million subscribers in Israel
(as of September 30, 2008). Partner’s ADSs are quoted on
the NASDAQ Global Select Market™ and its shares are traded
on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (NASDAQ and TASE: PTNR).
Partner is a subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications International
Limited (“Hutchison Telecom”), a leading global provider
of telecommunications services. Hutchison Telecom currently offers
mobile and fixed line telecommunications services in Hong Kong,
and operates mobile telecommunications services in Israel, Macau,
Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Indonesia. It was the first
provider of 3G mobile services in Hong Kong and Israel and operates
brands including “Hutch”, “3”
Hutchison Telecom, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited,
is a listed company with American Depositary Shares quoted on
the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “HTX” and
shares listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong under the stock
code “2332”.
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 plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of
News Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology
and services to digital pay-television platform operators and
content providers. See www.nds.com for
more information about NDS.
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