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Today's embedded systems are increasingly built by integrating pre-existing software modules, allowing OEMs to focus their efforts on their core competitive advantage - the embedded device's application. The first wave was the move towards standard commercial and open-source operating systems replacing home-grown ones. The next one is the move to well-designed, pre-fabbed, configurable building blocks of software IP which just plug into the operating environment for the application. TeamF1's focus on building modular software products that are pre-integrated with the hardware and operating systems they support ensures that you can spend more time using the functionality in the way that best suits your need, rather than "porting" it to your environment. We help you drop our components into your embedded software application with a minimum amount of effort using a streamlined and simplified licensing model that includes royalty-free distribution and full source code.

Building leading-edge embedded devices in the face of ever-increasing cost and time-to-market pressures is a high-risk proposition. Until now, OEMs and ODMs have had to make do with monolithic software packages or use in-house resources to engineer device software to their requirements. As a result, attempts to customize devices to meet customers’ specific requirements have increased time to market and added to the cost.

True turnkey solutions are needed that combine:
	A rich set of field-proven, standard components.
	An array of customizable options.
	A team of professional services experts to provide all hardware/software integration, porting, testing, and validation.
	Flexible licensing options.
And that’s exactly what TeamF1’s solutions provide.

TeamF1's SMBware family of embedded software solutions gives OEMs/ODMs the ability to bring to market differentiated, leading-edge devices for the small-to-medium business (SMB) market segment – and do it with much less risk than was previously possible.

By utilizing the SMBware collection of components, OEMs can specify customized target applications – including drivers, OS, networking and security protocols, and end-user management interfaces to run on OEMs’ choice of hardware.

The result: standard, field-tested software solutions in a production-ready custom package, with all hardware/software integration, porting, testing, and validation completed by TeamF1.

Fundamentals of the SMBware concept

The SMBware concept enables OEMs to select different types of validated software modules to meet their specific needs.

TeamF1’s professional services offering is a key ingredient in the SMBware family of solutions.

Experienced software engineers develop:

	Specific features such as BSPs, bootloaders, hardware accelerators, drivers, and integrate third-party software modules.
	Customized, or “branded,” end-user management interfaces in cost-effective ways.

Linux and VxWorks platforms are both supported under the SMBware umbrella. Hardware platforms include ARM/Xscale, MIPS, PowerPC, and x86.

Secure Gateway Solution

Member of the SMBware family of customized turnkey solutions

The SMBware Secure Gateway Solution answers OEMs’ need for next-generation devices for the SMB market. The Secure Gateway Solution offers OEMs preintegrated and validated turnkey VPN/firewall/router packages that provide ironclad, advanced networking security, easy-to-use device management features, and multiple gateway options.

Only the Secure Gateway Solution offers a comprehensive set of features in completely modular packaging that allows for full customization to meet OEMs’ specific requirements. To create each Secure Gateway Solution, TeamF1 leverages preexisting software blocks that have proven their merit in thousands of deployments, thereby eliminating risk for OEMs and keeping licensing terms flexible.

Managed Access Point Solution (MAPS)

Turnkey, customizable, fully-managed WLAN access point software

TeamF1's Managed Access Point Solution (MAPS) is a comprehensive turnkey software package that combines the latest 802.11 wireless standards with field-proven networking and security components.

A member of TeamF1’s SMBware™ family of innovative prepackaged solutions, MAPS enables OEMs/ODMs to deliver leading-edge Wi-Fi® devices, such as business-class wireless gateways, broadband access points (APs)/routers and hot-spot infrastructure nodes, for the small-to-medium business (SMB) market.