NIRAGONGO TO OFFER ITS SMART WIRELESS PROXY SOLUTION FOR BOTH i-MODE AND WAP2.0

Fully Supports cHTML, XHTML, HTML and Provides Advanced Transcoding Capabilities

Niragongo Ltd. today announced full support for WAP2.0 and i-mode by its market leading flagship product, the Lava Smart Proxy suite. The Lava Smart Proxy is a mediation solution that enables operators to easily brand and control their services and to ensure a compelling user experience. Niragongo now fully supports all mobile data common markups, including WML 1.x, cHTML (i-Mode), XHTML MP + CSS, and HTML. Niragongo also provides enhanced content and image transcoding features, which provides for a perfect surfing experience on any mobile terminal.

Niragongos Lava Smart Proxy allows operators to transparently enforce style-guide and brand policies without any content provider intervention, while enhancing their overall service reliability and user experience. In WAP2.0 environment, Lava provides a single point for managing all services in all markups and ensuring high level of user experience, service quality, content integration, and network utilization. It further supports both new and legacy devices, while enabling an efficient and cost effective migration to WAP2.0 services.

Niragongo believes that the important evolvement toward WAP2.0 will bring users closer to the mobile Internet world through an abundance of new features & benefits and enhanced user experience. "Consolidation of protocols and languages along with the new devices and rebranding campaigns creates a true change in adoption rates", says Niragongo CTO, Mr. Danny Kalish. As a technology leader, Niragongo enhanced its Smart Proxy solution to support various new content markups and transcoding capabilities that provide operators with even greater possibilities in ensuring truly usable and valuable services".

About Niragongo

Niragongo is a leading software vendor in providing Smart Wireless Proxy solutions for mobile Internet networks. Niragongo developed the Lava Smart Proxy suite, which significantly enhances mobile operators control over mobile data services and eases the launch of new applications, while transforming mobile Internet into a more seamless and personalized experience. The Lava Smart Proxy suite is a commercially installed solution proven in bringing value to operators mobile Internet services.

Niragongo, a privately held company, was founded in November 1999. It has offices in Herzliya, Israel and its investors include Carmel Ventures and AOL Time Warner Ventures.
For more information visit our website at www.niragongo.com .