Tilgin announces new portfolio of Telco Home Gateways for ADSL2+, FTTH and Ethernet access

March 4 2008, CeBIT, Hanover, Germany: Tilgin, a leading provider of customer premises equipment (CPE) for multi-play and next-generation broadband services, today announced the launch of a new portfolio of telco Home Gateways designed to help providers service-connect the home.

Telecom operators are experiencing increasing needs to deploy a new type of broadband home gateway that can function as a service delivery node capable of servicing a broader portfolio of consumer applications. Meeting this need, Tilgin has engineered and is now launching a new portfolio of operator managed Telco home gateways that allow operators to service-connect the home. Designed for advanced service delivery, the Tilgin Home Gateways provide the powerful and intelligent functionality needed by operators to deliver a broad portfolio of existing and next-generation services to broadband consumers.

Three new Tilgin Home Gateways are being announced as commercially available. They are the Tilgin HG1110 for ADSL2+ networks, the HG1310 for Ethernet connectivity, and the HG1520 for point-to-point FTTH networks. The products are delivered with the most comprehensive and powerful embedded software yet offered by Tilgin, and as a consequence, the products are equipped with higher processing power and more memory to serve not only today’s requirements but also those of tomorrow. By focusing on greater service functionality and delivery, the new Tilgin Home Gateways enable operators to deliver more and better services – faster, cheaper and with a longer lifecycle.

Regardless of access form, all the Tilgin Home Gateways are equipped with a complete range of wireless and fixed LAN connectivity, which together with support for UPnP, allows operators to service a growing number of connected consumer devices in the home. All products include support for TR-069 remote management, Voice over IP for analog and ISDN telephones, along with integrated wideband codecs that deliver high definition crystal-clear voice that is much better than over the PSTN. Wireless LAN set-up is made both secure and easy with push-button activated Wi-Fi Protected Setup™, while WMM and 802.11e deliver Quality of Service (QoS) features and multimedia support to 802.11b/g functionality. High speed routing and QoS handling

The intelligent service node – a key broadband service-enabler for Telcos
Operators have been weary for some time of just providing a bit-pipe into the homes of their broadband customers. Delivering IPTV and quadplay services have been a way around this. One of the absolute key components that enable operators to deliver these and other differentiating broadband services is the home gateway, and the reason for leading European Telcos to form the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) as a forum for specifying their requirements in home gateways. The new Tilgin Home Gateways are engineered in accordance with the latest HGI specifications and are deployed into broadband connected homes as fully managed intelligent service nodes for the operator. Delivering much more than connectivity alone, the value the new Tilgin Home Gateways has for operators is increasingly determined by the products’ embedded software and management capabilities.

Ola Berglund, Tilgin CEO, comments: “We are announcing a new portfolio of Tilgin Home Gateways that represent a significant milestone for the company. These products provide a combined hardware/software platform that helps operators roll-out existing broadband services of better quality, while also enabling them to expand and differentiate their service offerings.

Convergence was fundamental to the design of these products. Our objective has been to help operators fully leverage the value of their broadband networks, enabling new service capabilities that engage voice, video and data as service elements and not just as individual services. And with new service capabilities no further than a software upgrade away, we are able to help operators extend the lifetime of their investments to years, instead of just months.”

Fully routed functionality – saves costs and increases service capabilities
Telcos are ramping up to deploy video services that engage multiple set-top boxes as IPTV deployments move to MPEG-4 AVC. At the same time, consumers are showing more interest in networking and servicing consumer electronic devices that are increasingly supporting DLNA / UPnP. New Tilgin engineered routing functionality enables the new Tilgin Home Gateways to flexibly and efficiently route services to and between multiple set-tops. With support for QoS and wire-speed routing, it also allows for standards based service delivery between DLNA connected consumer devices, e.g. Network Attached Storage (NAS), DVR, Media servers, IP radio, cameras, etc. The benefit for the operator is both more functionality as well as facilitating low-cost service delivery routing models over both wide area and local area networks.

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Notes to editors:
Appreciated as the intelligent gateway into the home for all IP communications, Tilgin home gateways help service providers to evolve their portfolio of multi-play services for voice, video and data. Tilgin gateways are designed to be an integrated component in a service provider's network, enabling zero-touch auto-provisioning, remote management and complete control for the service provider. Besides offering service providers a Telco-grade solution for Voice over IP and high-speed Internet access, they also deliver powerful and advanced gateway capabilities for IPTV and IMS-based services. Tilgin home gateways are available with integrated ADSL2+, FTTH and Ethernet connectivity, and include high quality voice support for all leading VoIP back-end systems.
[The new products complement the existing Tilgin home gateways: VOOD 200, VOOD 300 and VOOD 400 ranges.]


About Tilgin
Tilgin designs and delivers premier IP customer premises equipment (CPE) for advanced Triple Play and IMS-based services. Supporting the full convergence of voice, video and data, Tilgin takes a network systems approach to CPE that enables service providers to offer a broad range portfolio of innovative and competitive broadband services. Tilgin's comprehensive product portfolio of IP home gateways, set-top boxes and related management applications, offers service providers unprecedented return on investment - delivering new service revenues and impressive cost savings over the lifetime of the product. Tilgin was founded in 1997 under the name i3 micro technology and listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange on the Nordic List as of December 2006. It is headquartered in Kista, Sweden, with European sales representation in France and Germany. www.tilgin.com