New Solution from Jungo Lets Broadband Operators Deploy a Nationwide Hotspot Service for Subscribers
Highlights:
- Jungo’s new NationZone™ can turn legacy home
gateways into hotspot access
points, potentially creating a countrywide unified Wi-Fi network
- Operators can use NationZone™ to:
- Provide a new nationwide WLAN roaming service to existing
customers
- Convert subscribers by offering trial broadband services
without initial
hardware rollout
- NationZone™ can be remotely installed by Operators
into existing Customer
Premise Equipment (CPE)
SAN JOSE, CA, – February 25, 2008 - Jungo
Ltd., a leading provider of broadband
service solutions, today announced the release of NationZone™,
a gateway middlewarebased
solution that can transform every home gateway into an operator
hotspot while
fully maintaining the security and bandwidth assurance for the
home.
As opposed to other hotspot services that require the rollout
of new hardware, Jungo’s
NationZone enables Operators to “turn on” the wireless
network through a simple remote
upgrade of the CPE firmware, thereby leveraging their existing
CPE infrastructure, and
launching a new service that creates a true nationwide “zone” which
provides value to
subscribers from day one.
“Operators need to acquire new subscribers and expand revenues
by offering new
services, while minimizing infrastructure and operational costs
involved with the rollout of
the new service”, said Eran Rom, Jungo’s CEO. “With
Jungo's NationZone™, Operators
can introduce new services, create more revenues and increase
customer loyalty by
utilizing the excess bandwidth and processing the power of millions
of CPEs already
deployed in the field”.
NationZone - Revenue generating wireless services
Operators deploying NationZone are able to introduce a new class
of wireless
broadband, an entry level broadband service, to expand their
product portfolio and
increase revenues. Research studies from around the world indicate
that a significant
number of households still do not have broadband, even in developed
telecom markets.
Typical reasons cited are short-term tenancy or limited disposable
income. This segment
can be served with a low-cost, lower-bandwidth broadband access
solution using
existing CPE equipment and excess bandwidth from nearby homes.
With NationZone,
subscribers receive reduced bandwidth and service assurance,
but pay only a fraction of the regular retail broadband price.
Operators can introduce this service without adding to
their operational expenditures as the bandwidth and equipment
are already in place.
NationZone - New customer acquisition
NationZone provides an innovative method for attracting customers.
Subscribers of other
networks searching for an open Wi-Fi connection (e.g. when out
of the home or when
their connection goes down temporarily) may find a NationZone
powered operator
hotspot and get free, limited-time access in return for agreeing
that the operator can
engage them after this free trial ends. [
NationZone - Existing customers - promoting loyalty
NationZone also increases existing customer loyalty by offering
Wi-Fi roaming at no
extra charge. New subscribers who sign on to the network, via
a low cost roaming
wireless service, may later upgrade to fixed broadband service
at home.
Operators can introduce Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) while
reducing operational
expenses by utilizing Wi-Fi instead of GSM in the NationZone
range. Subscribers can
enjoy the benefits of an FMC solution, paying local landline
call rates for fixed as well as
cellular calls while they are in the NationZone hotspot range.
Availability
Jungo's NationZone is currently in pilot deployments with Tier
One Operators worldwide.
About Jungo
Jungo Ltd., an NDS Group company, is a provider of broadband
home 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 pay-television
platform operators and content
providers. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS.
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