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Jungo (News - Alert) Ltd., a provider of connectivity software and drivers, reportedly announced the worldwide availability of its end-to-end USB solution for mobile broadband devices.

 

The complete USB solution from Jungo is based on company’s USBware and DriverCore technologies, which ensures connectivity between host platforms, such as PCs and laptops, and the increasingly wide variety of mobile broadband devices on the market.

 

Capable of fully integrating with Windows 7, new WWAN framework and NCM support, the new USB solution is optimized for mobile broadband devices, such as smartphones, PDAs, datacards and 3G/4G routers or wireless access points.

 

The new solution encompasses PC USB drivers, embedded device stack – firmware – and testing tools that together ensure interoperability, stability and robustness. Each component of the solution has been widely deployed by Tier-1 platform manufacturers and OEMs and is comprehensively field-tested, Jungo officials said in the release.

 

What’s more, 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.

 

“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,” Brian O'Rourke, principal analyst, Digital Entertainment, In-Stat (News - Alert), said.

 

DriverCore offers standard USB drivers to the new USB solution, thereby allowing device manufacturers to expose a variety of native communication interfaces via USB to different operating systems and platforms. This comprehensive USB CDC/Modem/DFU/serial driver solution supports most of the PC operating systems, such as Windows 2000\XP\Vista\Windows 7\Windows Mobile, Linux and Mac. It includes an extensive array of drivers such as CDC-ACM\ECM\EEM\NCM\WWAN\QMI, DFU, GPS and CCID.

 

Jungo’s USBware is a high quality embedded USB software protocol stack that has been featured in the new USB solution. It enables device manufacturers to incorporate standard USB connectivity easily in their designs. It supports the matching protocol on the device side and has already been ported to more than 35 real-time operating systems, such as Nucleus, VxWorks, Linux, Android, ThreadX, Symbian (News - Alert) 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,” Ophir Herbst vice president and general manager of Jungo’s connectivity software division, said. “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.”

 

Jungo Ltd., an NDS (News - Alert) Group company, offers broadband home value-added service solutions. Its other flagship products include OpenRG – a residential gateway software platform and OpenSMB – a small and medium business gateway software platform. These products facilitate broadband operators to deliver managed revenue-generating services to the digital home. The company’s another WinDriver is a driver development toolkit that enables developers to create custom device drivers, which can run on a multitude of operating systems without modification.