Wipro rolls out Home Gateway Software suite

BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies has commercially made available its Home

Gateway Software suite, the first project to take wings under Wipro’s

Innovation Initiative.

Wipro Corporate Innovation Council fosters entrepreneurial initiatives within

the company. The product is being demonstrated at the Embedded Systems

Conference at San Francisco being held from March 13 to March 15, 2002.

Home Gateway devices provide the necessary connectivity features to enable

customers to exploit the advantages of a networked home. Wipro’s Home Gateway

suite of software solutions enables various in-house intelligent devices to be

connected to the broadband network. Some of the applications enabled by the Home

Gateway device are Virtual Private Network Connectivity, Internet sharing, Video

on Demand, IP Telephony and home security and surveillance.

Wipro Home Gateway software suite is a ready to use solution for the Home

Gateway device manufacturers and the silicon vendors. It comprises of

CommEngine, VoiceEngine and AppEngine software addressing the Communication,

Voice Over Broadband and Application Service Delivery Infrastructure needs of

the Home Gateway devices. Wipro Home Gateway software suite is based on

open standards and hence is highly interoperable.

"The development of Home Gateway Software reflects our commitment to

work on cutting-edge technology", said, Wipro’s Embedded & Internet

Access Solutions Division, Chief Executive, Ramesh Emani. "With the recent

advancements in Internet access technology and with the increase in the number

of intelligent devices at home, the potential for Home Networking technology

seems immense."

Wipro’s Home Gateway software is complimented by a suite of standards based

hardware and software reusable components like Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, IEEE

1394, USB and Ethernet to give the customers a vital time to market advantage.

Together with these IP building blocks and the rich embedded software expertise,

Wipro ensures an end-to-end solution for the Residential Broadband and Home

Networking market.