Belkin Licenses Paragon Driver Technology

Paragon
Software Group announced their partnership with Belkin
International Inc. to license Paragon’s Universal File System
Driver (UFSD) technology on the company’s product lines beginning
with routers.

OEMs embed the exFAT/NTFS/HFS+ driver
technology into their network appliances and devices to ensure
connectivity regardless of the OSs these devices are running.

"Belkin is focused on
delivering solutions to the consumer market," said Mike
Chen, senior director of product management, Belkin. "Paragon
UFSD technology enables OS-independence, so everyone can use Belkin
networking products to store and access their data from any device,
be it an Android smartphone, Windows PC, Macbook, iPad, Linux
notebook, Chromebook and more, with the very highest performance,
file system integrity, and data protection. Paragon’s world class OEM
software engineers and support team will continue to aid Belkin’s
leading position in the consumer networking space."

"We are excited to partner with
Belkin to enable their customers to use any of their smart devices to
access their stored multimedia content connected to these next
generation routers," said Tom Fedro, president, Parago. "As home and work connectivity becomes more
and more ubiquitous, user expectations for seamless access to their
data anytime anywhere grows as well – which is why this partnership
and Paragon’s commitment to data accessibility, regardless of
platform, is so important."

The cross-platform file access
technology enables smart TVs and monitors, smartphones, tablets, set
top boxes, multimedia players, routers, NAS and other hardware to
communicate with storage media formatted to any file system
regardless of their processor or OS. As a result, consumers can
stream multimedia content to network and entertainment devices or
external storage for later playback on any of their devices.