Gateworks Corporation Introduces the Laguna Network Platform Family

Gateworks Corporation, a leading provider of OEM computer solutions, introduced today a new line of network computer boards known as the Laguna Network Platform. The first member, the GW2388, is targeted for next generation high performance multi-radio wireless access points, Mesh networks, WiMax Pico base stations, 3G routers, backhauls, repeaters, VPN appliances and network attached storage devices.

The GW2388 features the new Cavium® ECONA™ CNS3420 Dual Core ARM11 SoC processor operating at 600MHz, 128Mbytes of DDRII-400 DRAM, and 20Mbytes of Flash. Peripherals include four high-power Type III Mini-PCI sockets, two 10/100/1Gb Base-TX Ethernet ports with IEC-6100-2/4/5 ESD, EFT and lightning protection, and a Micro SD Flash socket for on-board storage expansion. The high-power Mini-PCI sockets allow the board to support any combination of 802.11abg/n radios, WiMAX radios, and other Mini-PCI peripherals. An optional Mini-PCI adapter is available for 3G CDMA/GSM modems and PCI Express Mini Card support.

Additional features include digital I/O, serial EEPROM, RS232 serial port for management and debug, programmable watchdog timer and extended temperature operation. The GW2388 also includes the Gateworks System Controller (GSC) battery-backed microcontroller which provides embedded features such as real time clock, voltage and temperature monitoring, programmable front panel pushbutton switch, tamper switch, and advanced power management with programmable board shut-down and wake-up for remote sensor applications. Additionally, as an ordering option, the GW2388 can be configured with an on-board GPS receiver, dual high speed USB 2.0 host ports and a SATA port. Power is applied through a dedicated barrel jack connector or through either Ethernet connector using a passive power over Ethernet (PoE) architecture. The mechanical dimensions and front panel connector locations are compatible with the existing Avila GW2348-4 and Cambria GW2358-4 platforms for backward compatibility. An OpenWRT board support package is included for Linux 2.6 operating systems.

Pricing for the GW2388-4 starts at US$209 in OEM quantities and can be purchased online at http://shop.gateworks.com. A development kit is also available which includes a USB JTAG Flash programmer, a passive PoE power injector, power supply, cables and software development CD. Customers can also specify customized versions of the GW2388 for volumes as low as 100 pieces. Gateworks’ flexible in-house assembly allows customers to optimize cost and performance of the board to suit their specific application. For further information, visit the company website at: http://www.gateworks.com.

Semaphore Announces Ultra-Low-Power Wireless RTU

Semaphore, a CSE Global company, announces the first factory shipments of the T-BOX LP Ultra-Low-Power Wireless RTU. T-BOX LP RTU provides unprecedented functionality in an ultra-low-power product by bringing IP/ web / telemetry technology and programmable automation capabilities to a product class that is normally limited to monitoring and data logging.

The T-BOX LP enables the complete integration of SCADA systems, control, and communications functionality in a single rugged package. It leverages easy-to-use Web technologies and inexpensive public networks for decentralized monitoring and control.

Using push messaging via e-mail, text, or IP communications, T-BOX LP system informs multiple recipients of alarms, live conditions, and historical data logs. It is also fully compatible with Semaphore’s TWinSoft Suite programmable automation environment, which simplifies configuration of application-specific calculations and control algorithms.

The T-BOX LP RTU provides long life using internal batteries and also operates with solar power systems. For installation in remote, outdoor environments, it is available in a compact, IP67 enclosure.

This ultra-low-power wireless RTU is ideal for applications in which it supervises assets in the agriculture, chemical, energy management, environmental, mobile asset management, oil & gas, smart grid, transportation, utility, vendor-managed inventory, and water / wastewater industries.
For more information about T-BOX LP RTU and Semaphore SCADA solutions, visit www.cse-semaphore.com, or contact Semaphore at 1200 Chantry Place, Lake Mary, FL 32746, 407-333-3235.

About Semaphore

Established in 2006, Semaphore was the result of a merger of two CSE Global companies, RTUnet, of Australia, and TechnoTrade SA, of Belgium. For more than 20 years, these companies have provided leading solutions for telemetry, automation, and remote monitoring and have an installed base of more than 70,000 devices. For more information, visit www.cse-semaphore.com.

Semaphore is a wholly owned subsidiary of CSE-Global Limited (CSE), a Singapore-based, leading, systems integrator with an international presence spanning Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. CSE employs about 1,400 people worldwide, with over 85% representing its design, engineering, and project management capability and experience. For more information, visit www.cse-global.com.

Comtrend Corporation Announces Launch of VDSL2 Bonding Gateway

Increased Speeds Support Service Providers’ Push for Value-Added Services Such as HD IPTV Streams, Higher Speed Tiers and Gaming

Comtrend Corporation, a global supplier of advanced networking solutions, today announced the release of the NexusLink 3100 series VDSL2 bonding gateway. Very-high-bitrate digital subscriber line (VDSL) bonding represents another example of Comtrend’s focus to drive CPE innovation and support carriers’ needs for additional services and revenue.

The new NexusLink 3100 series of VDSL2 bonding gateways rounds out a complete portfolio of xDSL-based gateways offered by Comtrend. The 3100 series of VDSL2 bonding gateways will support high-power 802.11n, a Gigabit FlexPort, and optional HPNA 3.1. Comtrend continues to focus on best-in-class interoperability combined with high product quality, rich feature sets and flexibility. This has made the entire Comtrend product line a favorite for service providers worldwide. Comtrend has continued to be an early market leader with ADSL2+, ADSL2+ bonded and VDSL2 products, and this is another example of that dedication.

“VDSL2 bonding presents service providers with another great opportunity to take advantage of the existing copper in use today,” says Brian Nickell, Senior Product Manager, Comtrend North America. “With fiber deployment costs still relatively high, utilizing existing copper to deliver advanced triple play services is increasingly important. VDSL2 bonding will continue to keep costs low for providers while meeting the bandwidth requirements for next generation services.”

The NexusLink 3100 series of VDSL2 bonding gateways includes multiple versions based on feedback from Comtrend’s extensive customer base worldwide:

NexusLink 3101 – 4 10/100 LAN ports
NexusLink 3100u – Gigabit FlexPort, 4 10/100 LAN ports, 802.11n, and USB 2.0,
NexusLink 3100Hu – Gigabit FlexPort, 4 10/100 LAN ports, 802.11n, USB 2.0 and HPNA 3.1

The Comtrend NexusLink 3101 and 3100u VDSL2 bonding gateways will be available beginning in October, 2010. The NexusLink 3100Hn will be available for customer evaluations in December, 2010. Learn more at www.comtrend.com/na. Evaluation units can be provided through contacting Comtrend Sales at 1-877-COMTREND.

About Comtrend Corporation

Comtrend Corporation is a leading global supplier of DSL-based networking solutions. Comtrend designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of networking equipment consisting of ADSL2+, Bonded DSL, VDSL2, GPON, STBs, VOIP and other networking technologies. We bring value to consumers through our direct service provider customers across the world. Comtrend is committed to industry standards, interoperability and market-leading performance. Comtrend’s vision is to bring people together with technology through a focus on innovation and superior service. The company has its North American headquarters in Irvine, California, and offices in Spain, Brazil, the UK, France, the Czech Republic, China and Taiwan. For more information please visit www.comtrend.com.

TransPerfect Introduces New iPhone Application

Users Can Now Access Instant Machine Translation Via The Device’s Camera

TransPerfect, the world’s largest privately held provider of translation services, today announced the release of a new iPhone application for translation, which is free to users. The application is called TransPerfect TransImage and it provides real-time machine translation via the device’s camera for users who come across text they would like to instantly understand. Machine translation has not yet advanced to a point where it can replace a human translator for mission critical content, but it can be fun, informative, and useful for getting the gist of content in another language.

TransPerfect’s iPhone application leverages OCR (optical character recognition) and MT (machine translation) technology to form an easy-to-use application that takes text within a picture and translates it automatically. The current version includes support for 49 languages.

The free application is now available from the Apple iTunes Store here:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/transperfect-transimage/id380198095?mt=8

About TransPerfect

With revenue of over $220 million, TransPerfect is the largest privately held language services provider in the world. From offices in 64 cities on 5 continents, TransPerfect offers a full range of services in over 100 languages to multinationals worldwide. With a global network of over 4,000 linguists and subject-area specialists, TransPerfect is the largest translation company to be fully ISO 9001:2008 and EN 15038:2006 certified. TransPerfect is headquartered in New York and has regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.

NETGEAR® Launches NeoTV HD Media Players – Flagship Products in New AV Series Make It Simple to Play Any Content on HDTVs

NETGEAR®, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative networking solutions for homes, businesses and service providers, today announced the NeoTV 350 HD and NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD Media Players as the flagship products in the NETGEAR AV Series. The groundbreaking NeoTV HD Media Players enable users to play their digital videos, photos, or music directly on their HDTVs whether the media is stored locally, on the home network, or the Internet. The AV Series is made up of easy-to-use products that help consumers easily connect their Internet-ready devices such as HDTVs, Blu-ray™ players, IPTV set-top boxes, media players and game consoles to the Internet and the home network.

“Our research has found that the biggest catalyst driving Web-connected consumer electronics products is access to premium content such as online video and music as well as personal content such as photos,” said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates. “NETGEAR’s latest offerings capitalize on this demand, and offer a flexible approach in how consumers choose to create a Web-enabled living room by providing either a stand-alone option, such as the NeoTV™ Media Players, or options to enable Web-capable consumer electronics such as televisions and Blu-ray players to be easily broadband-connected.”

New NETGEAR NeoTV HD Media Players

The NeoTV 350 HD and NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD Media Players, available in October, enable users to play their digital videos, photos, or music directly on their HDTVs and offer the most complete access to media collections, whether stored on USB storage devices, hard drives, memory cards, home media servers, home networks or on the Internet. Both models support HD 1080p, Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound. The NeoTV 550 offers an additional E-SATA port for faster transfer speeds, Blu-ray disc support via external drives and advanced metadata tagging that lets users browse cover art.

Other NeoTV features include a built-in memory card slot for instant photo slideshows on the TV, DLNA/UPnP compatibility for access to media servers, network share connectivity and an optional wireless connection with the AV Series NETGEAR Universal Wi-Fi Internet Adapter (WNCE2001).

NeoTV Pricing and Availability

The NeoTV 350 HD Media Player and NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD Media Player will be available in the fall 2010. The NeoTV 350 will be available in Europe with an MSRP of Euro 129.99 and Australia with an MSRP of AUD $189.99. The NeoTV 550 will be available in North America with an MSRP of $219.99, Europe for Euro 199.99 and Australia for AUD $299.99.

The NETGEAR AV Series Connected Entertainment Line

The new NETGEAR AV Series Line, which includes solutions for powerline, wired and wireless environments, is the first line of home networking products specifically designed to meet the user needs, performance, and reliability requirements for connecting disparate parts of the home theater and other digital entertainment devices with the Internet. The line enables consumers to easily activate the Internet-ready features that come with today’s HDTVs, Blu-ray players, media players and game consoles.

“Home theater devices like Blu-ray players, HDTVs, and game consoles now have the ability to connect to the Internet with the intention of giving consumers a richer entertainment experience,” said Vivek Pathela, VP and GM for Home/Consumer Products at NETGEAR. “The problem is that most people don’t know how to connect them and those who do often experience frustrating set-up and connection issues, video jitters, frame drops, screen freezes and audio/video sync issues. NETGEAR has been addressing these problems for many years, and our AV Series products are designed to deliver superior results for consumers and their connected entertainment needs.”

Easy to find online and in worldwide retail stores with the NETGEAR AV Series logo, consumers can now:

• Play any content on HDTVs with the NETGEAR NeoTV 350 HD and NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD Media Players (NTV350 and NTV550). Users can play digital videos, photos, or music directly on their HDTVs whether the media is stored locally, on the home network, or the Internet.
• Project a laptop screen to an HDTV with the NETGEAR Push2TV™ Adapter for Intel® Wireless Display (PTV1000). Everything on a notebook PC, such as Internet video, can be viewed on a big screen TV wirelessly. Intel recently announced this technology is available with 25 new computer models. To learn more, visit www.netgear.com/ptv
• Connect up to four home theater devices to the Internet wirelessly with the NETGEAR 3DHD Wireless Home Theater Networking Kit (WNHDB3004) and via powerline with the NETGEAR Home Theater Internet Connection Kit (XAVB1004). Users can easily connect and stream 3DHD and HD content onto their HDTVs, Blu-ray™ players, DVRs, game consoles, TiVo®, Slingbox™, or computers throughout the house.
• Connect Internet-Ready HDTVs and Blu-ray players to the Internet with the NETGEAR Universal WiFi Internet Adapter (WNCE2001). It wirelessly connects networked home theater devices to home networks and is universal so it works with any connected entertainment device.
• Connect the Xbox360 to the Internet with the NETGEAR Xbox 360 Internet Connection Kit (XETB10GM) and play online games on Xbox® Live® or PS2, PS3 and PCs.
• Create a wireless network for video and gaming with the NETGEAR Wireless Router for Video and Gaming (WNDR37AV). It creates a wireless Internet connection for gaming consoles, Blu-ray™ players, HDTVs, and TiVo®/DVRs as well as wireless connectivity for other home networked devices like laptops and wireless printers.
• Add a switch to connect multiple devices with the NETGEAR Home Theater and Gaming Network Switch (GS605AV) and easily connect networked TV, TiVo® DVR, Blu-ray™ player, game console and cable/satellite set-top boxes to home networks and the Internet.

For more product details, pricing, availability and how-to tutorials for the AV Series products, please visit: www.netgear.com/avseries

For more information on NETGEAR’s new NeoTV products, visit www.netgear.com/avseries or www.netgear.com/NeoTV

About NETGEAR, Inc.

NETGEAR (Nasdaq:NTGR – News) designs innovative, branded technology solutions that address the specific networking, storage, and security needs of Small- to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) and home users. The company offers an end-to-end networking product portfolio to enable users to share Internet access, peripherals, files, multimedia content, and applications among multiple computers and other Internet-enabled devices. Products are built on a variety of proven technologies such as wireless, Ethernet and powerline, with a focus on reliability and ease-of-use. NETGEAR products are sold in over 27,000 retail locations around the globe, and via more than 36,000 value-added resellers. The company’s headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., with additional offices in 25 countries. NETGEAR is an ENERGY STAR® partner. More information is available at http://www.NETGEAR.com or by calling (408) 907-8000. Connect with NETGEAR at http://twitter.com/NETGEAR and http://www.facebook.com/NETGEAR.