Linux.

Trango believes mobile phones are increasingly in need of advanced security capabilities, given rapidly increasing capabilities that include music, movie, and game downloads, as well as broadcast media reception. It says its Trango hypervisor technology can help protect service providers and end-users from "trojans, viruses, and other malicious attacks."

COO Pierre Coulombeau stated, "Trango secure hypervisor is a key technology to improve mobile phone security and reduce the bill of materials. [It can] also isolate critical data and algorithms from malicious attack in and from an Open OS."

Coulombeau adds, "Some major mobile phone and semiconductor manufacturers are currently working with Trango to deploy secure hypervisor technology in their products for 2007."

Availability

Trango's hypervisor technology is available for ARM, XScale, and MIPS-based SoCs. It has customers and applications in mobile phones, set-top boxes, residential gateways, point-of-sales terminals, and routers, the company says.

Trango, located near Grenoble, France, is part of the ELSYS Design Group. Trango is currently seeking first-round funding.

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