Jungo
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Jungo Ltd is a provider of residential and business gateway software platforms and applications. Jungo Ltd. is an NDS Group
Plc Company.
The NDS Group is the leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay-TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and personal computers. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, California and its development center is based in Tel Aviv
, Israel.
s) to bring broadband Customer Premises Equipment (CPE
) such as Residential Gateways, triple play
gateways, office-in-a-box gateway, firewall/VPN routers to market quickly.
Jungo also offers extensive USB/PCI
/PCI-Express
/Bluetooth
Connectivity Solutions, 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 and small footprint embedded USB software protocol stack, allowing device manufactures to easily incorporate standard USB OTG/Host/Device connectivity in their designs.
In Addition, Jungo provides complete USB Testing solutions for both the device and the host side.
technologies. In April 2000 the company changed its name to Jungo Ltd.
In April 2001, Jungo raised $7 Million in its second round of financing. The round was lead by venture capital
fund TeleSoft Partners, and was joined by Infineon Ventures and the Intel Capital.
During 2003 Jungo won Toshiba
and Samsung
as customers, in September the same year, Jungo raised $5.5 Million in a third round of funding.
On 4 December 2006 Jungo was acquired by the NDS Group
for $107 million.
NDS Group
NDS Group Plc. is a developer of pay TV technology. NDS was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by News Corporation in 1992. The company is currently headquartered in Staines, United Kingdom...
Plc Company.
The NDS Group is the leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay-TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and personal computers. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, California and its development center is based in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, Israel.
Overview
Jungo's flagship products, OpenRG - residential gateway software platform and OpenSMB - small and medium business gateway software platform enable Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMOEM
OEM means the original manufacturer of a component for a product, which may be resold by another company.OEM may also refer to:-Computing:* OEM font, or OEM-US, the original character set of the IBM PC, circa 1981...
s) to bring broadband Customer Premises Equipment (CPE
CPE
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) such as Residential Gateways, triple play
Triple play (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...
gateways, office-in-a-box gateway, firewall/VPN routers to market quickly.
Jungo also offers extensive USB/PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
Conventional PCI is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer...
/PCI-Express
PCI Express
PCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards...
/Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
Connectivity Solutions, 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 and small footprint embedded USB software protocol stack, allowing device manufactures to easily incorporate standard USB OTG/Host/Device connectivity in their designs.
In Addition, Jungo provides complete USB Testing solutions for both the device and the host side.
History
Jungo was founded in 1998 as KRFTech Ltd., by two former Checkpoint Software Technologies employees, Derry Shribman and Ofer Vilenski (who served as the company's first CEO), initially specializing in creating tool kits for hardware developers, later expanding to provide residential gatewayResidential gateway
A residential gateway is a home networking device, used as a gateway to connect devices in the home to the Internet or other WAN.It is an umbrella term, used to cover multi-function networking computer appliances used in homes, which may combine a DSL or cable modem, a firewall, a consumer-grade...
technologies. In April 2000 the company changed its name to Jungo Ltd.
In April 2001, Jungo raised $7 Million in its second round of financing. The round was lead by venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
fund TeleSoft Partners, and was joined by Infineon Ventures and the Intel Capital.
During 2003 Jungo won Toshiba
Toshiba
is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
and Samsung
Samsung
The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
as customers, in September the same year, Jungo raised $5.5 Million in a third round of funding.
On 4 December 2006 Jungo was acquired by the NDS Group
NDS Group
NDS Group Plc. is a developer of pay TV technology. NDS was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by News Corporation in 1992. The company is currently headquartered in Staines, United Kingdom...
for $107 million.
External links
- Jungo official website
- Jungo's Gateway Software solutions
- Jungo's Connectivity Software solutions
- Jungo's Embedded USB Software
- Jungo's Bluetooth Software Stack
- Jungo's Driver Development Tools
- Jungo's USB CDC/Modem/DFU/Serial Drivers Solution