Sagem Communications Offers Red Bend’s Innovative FOTA Software for its M2M Modules and Devices

Sagem Communications has selected an innovative solution to provide an extended lifetime to its range of M2M devices and reduce the opex of its customers’ M2M solutions. The following M2M markets recognize that enhanced lifetime is key when launching a new product: Automotive, Smart Metering, Payment Terminals, Alarm and Security.

WALTHAM, Mass., September 30, 2009—Sagem Communications has selected the best-in-class solution for firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updating from Red Bend Software. With Red Bend’s FOTA software, Sagem Communications will offer its customers software improvements and new functionality for its M2M modules, enabling quick response to any change request. Thus, Sagem Communications will be able to provide a new range of services with a fast, efficient, secure and reliable process:

• Fast and efficient: delivering only the essential differences between firmware versions to the remote M2M modules without having to send the entire new firmware image over the air, which significantly saves on bandwidth and usage charges. The firmware size can be reduced up to 97%.
• Secure and reliable: Using a patented pre-installation technical verification, this solution verifies that the newly created software version is 100% accurate and will install properly, prior to the update process beginning. It eliminates the risk of disabling devices due to errors or unexpected disruptions in the update process. In the event of a power loss, it automatically resumes the update from the point of interruption.

“This innovative FOTA software will enable new services and significantly increase the value propositions to our customers,” says Eric Rieul, Director of Energy & Telecom Business Unit in Sagem Communications.

“Red Bend’s FOTA software is being used to keep M2M module software up-to-date with changing standards and customer requirements, and to remotely perform software updates in a fast and reliable manner,” said Yoram Salinger, CEO of Red Bend Software. “Red Bend is proud to have been selected by Sagem Communications to further our expansion into M2M with Sagem Communications’ tier one customers in the automotive, smart metering, payment terminals, and the alarm and security markets.”

Red Bend’s FOTA software is available with Hilo and HiloNC auto cellular modules in the first stage. This new range of GPRS modules offers smart, small and power safe solutions to M2M markets. Sagem Communications already plans to extend FOTA services to a new range of M2M devices.

Sagem Communications is a leading provider of M2M solutions, with already more than 14 million of cellular modules delivered worldwide. With its GPRS, EDGE and 3G modules range, Sagem Communications delivers solutions to the main M2M markets: Automotive, Smart Metering, Payment Terminals, Alarm and Security. All these M2M verticals recognize the added value of Sagem Communications in several areas:

• Enhanced modules range including the smallest, lightest and power safe Hilo module, as well as its new automotive grade variant;
• Outstanding technical support with documentation, development tools, on-site support, development, qualification and certification services; and
• Privileged industrialization service with a skilled team used to manufacture mass market communication devices through a wide footprint of factories.

About Sagem Communications
A French, international scale, high technology company, Sagem Communications specialises in broadband communications and convergence in particular in the following areas: printing terminals, digital TV set-top boxes, broadband and residential terminals, communicating energy management solutions and telecom systems and partnerships. The company is in a leadership position in these sectors thanks to its proven capacity for innovation. Sagem Communications aims to become a world leader in convergence and broadband terminals. With a turnover of more than 1.3 billion euros, Sagem Communications employs 6,570 people on five continents and is headquartered in Paris.

The sustainable development policy commitment at Sagem Communications starts right from the product design stage. It applies to the whole of the industrial process, the eco-design in accordance with ISO standards and includes the energy consumption of the products, and is included in an ethical charter applicable to all its suppliers.

For more information, please visit: www.sagem-communications.com

About Red Bend Software
Red Bend Software, the leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), provides software solutions for managing firmware, applications and devices over the air. The company’s award-winning MSM products enable device manufacturers, mobile operators and software developers to increase revenues, reduce support costs and achieve faster time to market by remotely managing their software assets on mobile devices. Red Bend’s software has been deployed in more than 565 million mobile devices by eight of the top 10 handset manufacturers, including Kyocera, LG Electronics, Motorola, Sharp, Sony Ericsson and ZTE, as well as dozens of other leading companies in the mobile, M2M and WiMAX markets. Unlike device management vendors with proprietary end-to-end systems and manufacturers’ internally developed solutions that are platform specific, Red Bend is the only company offering independent client software that is interoperable with any standards-based server and that works with any platform on any type of mobile device. Founded in 1999, Red Bend is a privately held, venture capital-financed company with offices in China, Israel, Japan, Korea, the U.K. and the U.S. To learn how Red Bend is bending rules and breaking boundaries with mobile software management, visit www.redbend.com.

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