San Francisco, February 1, 2002 The Panasonic Digital Concept Center office in Cupertino is now home to a Unified Home Networking demonstration that includes two Panasonic IP network cameras, a Panasonic home gateway, and software from eTango.

The eTango web service software is installed on a network server and provides a unified portal interface with authentication, a shared calendar, photo album, news board, and connection to devices in the home area network. A second component of the eTango software is installed on the Panasonic home gateway and allows for the exchange of information between the Panasonic devices, and the eTango web service software. This component is OSGi compliant and allows for images from the KME IP network camera, to be packaged up and sent using SOAP RPC (XML) for storage in the eTango online photo album. Once there the images are accessible from any Internet connected device with a browser.

The eTango @ttract software on the home gateway also allows for access to numerous IP network cameras through a single IP address without using port forwarding. This makes a very unified, simple solution available to the consumer.

eTango is a software technology company that is pioneering software solutions that connect devices, applications, and services inside the networked home to make life simpler for consumers.