Agere Systems and Digital 5 Collaborate on Development of Complete Network Attached Storage and Digital Media Server Solution fo
November 02 2004 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Agere Systems and Digital 5 Collaborate on Development of Complete
Network Attached Storage and Digital Media Server Solution for
Emerging Digital Home Market TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ --
Taipei Home Developers Conference (Booth 22) -- Agere Systems
(NYSE:AGR.ANYSE:AGR.B) and Digital 5, a leading provider of
software for streaming of multimedia content, today announced an
alliance to bring to market the next generation of digital media
server and network attached storage solutions for the new age of
the "digital home." (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040618/AGERELOGO ) The
companies are developing a complete hardware and software platform
to help accelerate the time-to-market for products by original
design manufacturers (ODMs) and original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) addressing the attached storage needs of digital media
content throughout the home and small- to medium-sized business
network environments. The joint collaboration is focused on
developing and bringing to market a digital media server platform
with the necessary chipsets, software integration, validation and
customization for new products to be introduced in 2005. Agere and
Digital 5 are working with a variety of consumer electronics
companies to bring to market these new products. The exponential
growth in the amount of digital entertainment content such as
music, digital photographs and video has led to the need for
advanced solutions that provide cost-effective methods for storing,
streaming and protecting these files on home networks. Enabling
design and equipment manufacturers to address these needs, Agere
and Digital 5 will offer a platform to ensure that OEMs can rapidly
bring NAS-based media server products to market. "Parks Associates
expects a sea-change in the environment for IP-based media over the
next 2-3 years," said Tricia Parks, president of Parks Associates.
"The telcos are poised to push IP video into the home which will
drive adoption of digital media use in the home. By 2008 over 30
million households will be using a digital media adapter." Parks
Associates estimates the total data network nodes installed in
households in the United States will grow from approximately 10
million in 2004 to more than 100 million in 2008. "Digital 5
provides a broad solution and in-depth knowledge associated with
content navigation, media databases and streaming services
associated with digital media server product needs," said Jeff
Timbs, director of business development for Agere Systems. "Agere's
expertise in delivering highly integrated system-on-a-chip
products, combined with Digital 5's proven software, will offer
OEMs and ODMs a comprehensive range of solutions from a complete
reference platform to a turnkey product suite." "We are pleased to
be able to collaborate with Agere Systems to support the vision and
enable technology essential for sharing, storing and protecting a
household's personal and commercial digital media files," said
Michael Harris, president and COO of Digital 5. Our solution
enables OEMs/ODMs to leverage a complete reference platform and
accelerate time-to-market for devices designed to manage the
increasing digital media content in the connected digital home."
Both Agere Systems and Digital 5 are members of the Digital Living
Network Alliance (DLNA) and are developing digital media server and
storage products that are expected to be based on DLNA guidelines
in the future. The Digital 5 technology supports industry standards
such as UPnP, HTTP, RTP, NMPR and 802.11g. Digital 5 provides an
application customization layer creating the ability to easily add
additional application functionality and utilize the customizable
user interface to expose more features, enhance the device
capabilities and enrich the user experience. Agere Systems and
Digital 5 will be available for private customer briefings at the
Digital Home Developers Conference to be held in Taipei Nov. 2-3,
2004. Michael Harris, president of Digital 5, will present the
keynote address on Nov. 3 at 9:15 a.m., titled "The Digital Home:
Here and Now!" Representatives from Agere and Digital 5 can be met
at booth #22 on the exhibitor floor. About Agere Systems Agere
Systems is a global leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless
data, and public and enterprise networks. The company's chips and
software power a broad range of computing and communications
applications, from cell phones, PCs, PDAs, hard disk drives and
gaming devices to the world's most sophisticated wireless and
wireline networks. Agere's customers include the top manufacturers
of consumer electronics, communications and computing equipment.
Agere's products connect people to information and entertainment at
home, at work and on the road -- making personal broadband a
reality. About Digital 5, Inc. Digital 5, Inc. (Digital 5) is a
leading provider of software enabling both wireless and wired
sharing of multimedia content among networked consumer electronics
(CE) devices. Digital 5's software technology is used to enable new
products for existing CE categories, such as DVD players,
televisions, and stereo systems, giving them the capability to
access media content over a home network and the Internet. These
products allow consumers to enjoy their music, digital pictures, or
video in the comfort of their various home entertainment locations.
With headquarters in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and operations in
California, Taiwan, Japan and India, Digital 5 can be contacted on
the World Wide Web at http://www.digital5.com/ . This release
contains forward-looking statements based on information currently
available to Agere. Agere's actual results could differ materially
from the results stated or implied by such forward-looking
statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks
and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our ability to
keep pace with technological change, our dependence on new product
development, price and product competition, availability of
manufacturing capacity, customer demand for our products and
services, general industry and market conditions, and our reliance
on major customers and suppliers. For a further discussion of these
and other risks and uncertainties, see our annual report on Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, and our
quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2004.
Agere disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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Inc. CONTACT: Steven Goldsmith of Agere Systems, +1-610-712-6737
(office), ; or Sebastian Pistritto of Digital 5, +1-609-759-4202
(office), Web site: http://www.agere.com/ http://www.digital5.com/
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