Arcturus Networks and Ultima Join Forces To Bring Extensible RG Solutions to Taiwan
Wednesday, October 1st, 2003
TAIWANESE OEMS AND ODMS TARGET OF TURN KEY DIGITAL HOME SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
Taipei and Silicon Valley, October 1, 2003 — Arcturus Networks Inc. today announced a comprehensive partnership with Ultima Electronic Corp. to address the demand for Arcturus RG solutions in the Taiwanese OEM/ODM marketplace.
Ultima will increase Arcturus worldwide representation and extend Residential Gateway products into the Taiwanese marketplace with a focus on OEM and ODM product opportunities. Arcturus Residential Gateway solutions compliment Ultima’s broad range of products and help Ultima deliver highly scalable “Total Solutions” that bring their customers product to market quickly.
“We have seen a great deal of traction within the Taiwanese OEM/ODM marketplace and it was clear local distribution was needed,” said Rich Larsen Chief Operating Officer, Arcturus Networks. “Ultima has an outstanding reputation and represents many of our semiconductor partners in Taiwan. Through Ultima we have already begun working with several ODMs to deliver complete RG solutions and we expect that our unique architecture will help Ultima to redefine the performance standards in Taiwan.”
“Software or Firmware is always the most important ingredient in every digital home device, we are glad to provide Arcturus Residential Gateway solutions to our customers in their time critical projects,” said Marco Wang, VP of Technical Marketing, Ultima Electronics Corp. ” it is the quickest way to finish the software porting and construct the desired features in this type of network device.”
Ultima is one of the leading semiconductor distributors in Taiwan, supplying all sorts of components to system manufacturers in PC, communications and consumer electronics industries. Through the joint effort with Arcturus, Ultima will differentiate itself by serving a “Total Solution” to OEM/ODM manufacturers.
Arcturus RG
Arcturus partners directly with semiconductor vendors to provide RG software and hardware solutions with various combinations of broadband access, wireless access, device management, security, VPN, media and voice. Arcturus builds its RG solutions from the ground up around a highly extensible management infrastructure called MIBflex™. MIBflex enables real-time remote management, provisioning, monitoring and upgrading of in-field devices through various front-end plug-ins such as SNMP. The nature of this architecture ensures scalability and flexibility not achievable through other solutions and enables the addition and provisioning of services dynamically, as required or on-demand. Other RG firmware suites plug directly in MIBflex including sentryVPN, AIRmarshal and SIPstream retaining an un-paralleled level of access and extensibility for an OEM or MSO.
About Ultima Electronics Corp.
Ultima Electronics Corp. founded in 1983, in the infant age of PC industry in Taiwan, at Tu-Cheng, Taipei County was a keyboard manufacturer and reseller of various computer peripheral products now becomes one of the top 5 component distributors in Taiwan. Wide range product lines including parts from Mosel, Winbond, ESMT, SMC, National Semiconductor, Atmel, Micrel, Texas Instruments, etc. Headquartered in Chung Ho City Taipei County now and committed to be a Total Solution provider, every member in Ultima have teamed up to integrate hardware, software and logistic services together to meet customer’s evermore demand. Learn more by visiting www.ultima.com.tw
About Arcturus Networks Inc.
Arcturus Networks Inc. provides Residential Gateway solutions that enable manufacturers to bring converged home networking products to market fast. Arcturus firmware is modular and portable and based around a rich management architecture called MIBflex. Into MIBflex Arcturus can apply other firmware suites including sentryVPN security, SIPstream voice and AIRmarshal wireless. Arcturus has numerous semiconductor and OEM customers and partners and leverages these relationships to help reduce time-to-market and risk. Arcturus is the innovator of the industry leading SIPjack, the worlds smallest SIP based VoIP Telephony adapter.
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