SAN JOSE, Calif.-- Jungo Ltd., a leading provider of connectivity software and drivers, today announced the worldwide availability of its end-to-end USB solution for mobile broadband devices.

Highlights:

    * Solution ensures seamless connectivity between mobile devices and hosts
    * Full integration with Windows 7, new WWAN framework and NCM support
    * Optimized for Smartphones, Datacards and 3G/4G wireless modems.

 The solution, which is based on Jungo's USBwareT and DriverCoreT technologies, ensures seamless connectivity between host platforms, such as PCs and laptops, and the increasingly wide variety of mobile broadband devices on the market.

"Mobile broadband devices are a prominent growth area for USB. Jungo's end-to-end solution, including drivers, firmware and test tools, will enable even faster growth in this important market," states Brian O'Rourke, Principal Analyst, Digital Entertainment, In-Stat.

The solution is optimized for mobile broadband devices, including smartphones, PDAs, datacards, and 3G/4G routers or wireless access points. The USB functionality supported by the solution ranges from downloading to a host, high-speed data and media transfer, network management to personal area connectivity and power charging.

Included in the end-to-end solution are the PC USB drivers, embedded device stack (firmware) and testing tools to ensure interoperability, stability and robustness. Each component has been widely deployed by Tier-1 platform manufacturers and OEMs and is comprehensively field-tested.

DriverCore, the complete USB CDC/Modem/DFU/serial drivers solution, supports all of today's PC operating systems, including Windows 2000\XP\Vista\Windows 7\Windows Mobile, Linux and Mac and includes an extensive array of drivers including CDC-ACM\ECM\EEM\NCM\WWAN\QMI, DFU, GPS and CCID.

USBware, Jungo's high quality embedded USB software protocol stack supports the matching protocol on the device side and has already been ported to more than 35 Real-Time Operating Systems, including Nucleus, VxWorks, Linux, Android, ThreadX, Symbian and Windows Mobile.

"USB has become a mission-critical component of mobile broadband devices, and getting it right on both the PC and embedded side requires world class technology and expertise," said Ophir Herbst VP and General Manager of Jungo's Connectivity Software Division. "The Jungo solution provides a complete PC and device side software solution, enabling manufacturers to quickly integrate and release quality products to market backed by Jungo's global support organization."

About Jungo
Jungo Ltd., an NDS Group company, is a provider of broadband home value-added service solutions. Jungo's flagship products, OpenRGT (residential gateway software platform) and OpenSMBT (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 WinDriverT, a driver development toolkit that enables developers to create custom device drivers that can run on a multitude of operating systems without modification.

DriverCoreT offers standard USB drivers, allowing device manufacturers to expose a variety of native communication interfaces via USB to different operating systems and platforms. USBwareT 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.

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. VideoGuardr is the world's market-leading conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) technology, currently deployed on 111 million active devices, and safeguarding pay-TV service revenues exceeding $40 billion. NDS middleware, including MediaHighwayr which enables a host of advanced services for subscribers, has been deployed on 128 million devices. NDS DVR technology, centred around XTVT, leads the global industry with 23 million units deployed. (Deployment figures as of 30th September 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.