TORRANCE, Calif. – January 16, 2007 - TRENDnet®, a best-in-class networking manufacturer of wired and wireless networking solutions, and Orb Networks™, a leading developer of software and services that unlocks the digital media on personal computers for enjoyment anywhere, today announced a partnership that will make it faster and easier for consumers to store, share and stream TRENDnet and other digital media in their homes and wherever they choose to consume media outside their homes.

TRENDnet plans to bundle Orb software with a series of new best-in-class hardware products including IP cameras, networked storage servers and routers, starting in the first quarter of 2007. This will give TRENDnet customers the choice of using either TRENDnet’s existing in-box software or Orb’s pioneering solution to view and control their media.  Orb allows you to enjoy all digital media from your home PC on any other networked device with an internet connection – be it TV, other PCs, lap-tops, PDAs or mobile phones with streaming players.  Digital media includes live TRENDnet IP camera feeds and recorded TV, music, Internet and home videos, photos and more.

TRENDnet’s Orb-optimized wired and wireless products deliver a digital media experience at much faster speeds.  In addition, TRENDnet’s storage capabilities will allow consumers to store more digital content around their home PC without worries of hard disk drive limitations. 

“With the accelerated increase of Internet accessible digital media, we are focused on designing hardware-based home networking solutions that not only allow you to capture and store content but also allow you to view and control content anywhere you have access to the Internet,” stated Zak Wood, Senior Marketing Manager for TRENDnet. “Orb gives our customers a secure industry leading product that allows them to control and consume their digital media from anywhere in the world. This clearly enhances the value of a TRENDnet home network.”

“The digital media that consumers care about also needs to be unleashed inside the home,” said Hervé Utheza, Vice President of TV Properties, at Orb Networks. “If we can give users access to their full media library thousands of miles away from home, we certainly want to give them the best experience possible inside the wireless home. The TRENDnet product family helps us achieve that goal.”

TRENDnet and Orb’s announcement comes at a time when the home networking and connected home market is rapidly changing and growing. The Diffusion Group predicts more than 160 million households worldwide will have home networks with almost one billion connected devices by 2010. ABI Research forecasts the core home networking market will grow to $10 billion by 2010 and the total value of network entertainment, data, storage and communications devices for consumers will be top $85 billion by the same period. 

How Orb Works
A simple download of the Orb software to an always-on Windows PC is all it takes to start MyCasting.  Instantly, the Orb applications allow users to stream media feeds from their home computer to any Web-enabled mobile device with a browser and a streaming media player.  No specialized mobile software or hardware is required. 

Orb provides a simple, intuitive interface to the user's content located on their home PC. By removing the complexity and limitations of many of today's digital entertainment products and services, Orb's software architecture leverages the best features of today's popular standards while abiding by current digital rights management solutions.  

About Orb Networks, Inc.
Orb Networks is an award-winning developer of software

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Компания TRENDnet является глобальным поставщиком передовых сетевых решений для малого и среднего бизнеса и домашних сетей. Выпуская аппаратные средства для сетевых решений с 1990 года, компания TRENDnet помогает пользователям создать эффективную сеть практически в любом месте с возможностью совместного использования широкополосного доступа, мультимедийного контента и сетевых периферийных устройств. Обширный ассортимент продукции, выпускаемой компанией TRENDnet, включает в себя беспроводные решения, Интернет-камеры (IP-камеры), коммутаторы, Power over Ethernet (PoE), оптоволоконные решения, гигабитные устройства, решения домашней автоматизации, сетевые видеорегистраторы (NVR), переключатели KVM (клавиатура/видео/мышь), серверы печати, Powerline, медиа-серверы NAS, мультимедийные аксессуары и многое другое. Более подробную информацию о компании TRENDnet вы найдете на нашем сайте www.trendnet.com.