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Palladia gateway chipset and Jungo's OpenRG(TM)/OpenSMB(TM) software offer feature-rich platform for operators and equipment manufacturers FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Centillium Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTLM) has partnered with Jungo Ltd. to develop an integrated software platform for Centillium's Palladia(TM) high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for residential and business ADSL and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) residential and business gateway applications. The integration of Jungo's widely adopted OpenRG(TM) and OpenSMB(TM) software with the gateway-on-chip solution offers Operator and OEM customers the opportunity to select the platform that best accommodates their application and network requirements. "The Jungo flexible and feature-rich gateway software platforms work in perfect conjunction with Centillium's powerful Palladia product suite to integrate extremely high quality voice services and formidable routing capabilities within a single, high-powered chipset," noted Gilad Brand, Jungo's Director of Product Marketing. "The demand for voice services over ADSL is growing, and Operators and OEMs will look to Palladia and OpenRG for the robust features, reliability and interoperability to meet their goals in the residential and business marketplace." "Next-generation broadband networks are placing an ever-increasing premium on gateway performance, and that performance will be measured not only in extreme data rates but in rich functionality to power dynamic triple-play services while maintaining quality of experience and always-on service levels for the consumer," said Bill McDonald, Director of Product Marketing. The joint efforts of Jungo and Centillium promise a superior solution for the demands of next-generation applications." Mated to Centillium's Palladia SoC product, the comprehensive functionality of Jungo's OpenRG and OpenSMB gives gateway and integrated access device manufacturers a strong foundation for accelerating product development, and offers carriers a trusted platform for rapid, reliable and profitable deployment of new VoIP services over ADSL networks. About Palladia 402 The Palladia 402 is the world's first integrated VoIP solution for the ADSL markets. A highly integrated design and high-performance processing assure a rich feature set for voice communications and data transfer while minimizing costs and enhancing time to market. Palladia 402 integrates a network processor, as well as multiple dedicated hardware engines -- including a voice digital signal processor, a packet header processor, and an encryption accelerator -- that assist the network processor by off-loading many routine tasks. The Palladia 402 serves as a fully integrated data pump for ADSL2/2+/2++ networks with speeds of up to 50 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream. Additionally, Palladia 402 supports Ethernet and USB LAN interfaces, and a PCI interface with a glueless interface to many mini-PCI WIFI modules. Availability The OpenRG software platform for Palladia gateway SoC solutions is currently in development for Centillium's and Jungo's mutual customers. Reference designs will be available in early Q4 2007. About Centillium Communications Centillium Communications, Inc. is a leading innovator of high performance, cost-effective semiconductor solutions that give consumers, enterprises and service providers the winning edge in broadband access. The company's complete, end-to-end system-on-chip solutions accelerate development time-to-market for "last mile" products with Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies. Centillium products include digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits and related software for DSL and FTTP central office and customer premises equipment and VoIP solutions for carrier- and enterprise-class gateways and consumer telephony. Centillium is a global company with headquarters in Fremont, CA. Additional information is available at http://www.centillium.com/. About OpenRG Jungo's OpenRG enables delivery of innovative, usable and manageable value-added-services to the evolving Digital Home, while minimizing Operator's support cost and VAS time-to-market. Jungo's OpenRG software for residential gateways and Jungo's OpenSMB software for businesses gateway supports all popular home networks and access networks; includes high-performance feature-rich VAS enablers, such as QoS, VoIP, Firewall and Remote management; and a growing set of value-added-services. Operators deploying Jungo-powered gateways increase ARPU and subscribers loyalty with the quick and constant introductions of new value added services. About Jungo Jungo Ltd., an NDS group company, is a provider of broadband home value-added-services solutions. Jungo's flagship products, OpenRG (residential gateway software platform) and OpenSMB (small and medium business gateway software platform) enable broadband Operators to delivered managed revenue-generating services to the digital home. Jungo also offers extensive connectivity software solutions for USB and PCI, including WinDriver(TM), 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(TM), 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 http://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 http://www.nds.com/ for more information about NDS. Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-looking Statements This document may contain certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance as of the time the statements are made. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in global economic, business, competitive market, regulatory and other factors. More detailed information about these and other factors that could affect future results is contained in our filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Any "forward-looking statements" included in this document are made only as of the date of this document and we do not have any obligation, nor do we undertake, to publicly update any "forward-looking statements" to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law. NOTE: Centillium Communications, Palladia, and the Centillium Logo are trademarks of Centillium Communications, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. Jungo, OpenRG and OpenSMB are trademarks of Jungo Ltd. in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks, products or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. DATASOURCE: Centillium Communications, Inc. CONTACT: Vivian Chen, Sr. Marcom Manager of Centillium Communications, +1-510-771-3628, ; or Shelly Aks, Sr. Marcom and PR Manager of Jungo Software Technologies Inc., +972-9-8859365, ext. 293, Web site: http://www.centillium.com/ http://www.jungo.com/ http://www.nds.com/

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