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BigBand Puts the Spotlight on Digital Video Networking at IBC 2009
September 1, 2009
"We are looking forward to using our appearance at IBC to showcase our next generation video product lines to telcos and other service providers across the EMEA region," said Rick Ford, Vice President of International Sales, BigBand Networks. "Video is increasingly becoming a core component of our customers' product suites. And at BigBand, we are focused on helping them to deliver a consistently high-quality video experience to their customers across multiple platforms to a broad range of devices."
The BigBand MSP2000 is designed to be a future-proofed platform, which can help broadband service providers including telco operators, seamlessly transition from a broadcast video distribution model to the comparatively cost-effective personalized video delivery of a range of services such as IPTV, addressable advertising and higher-quality multi-channel HD. By offering the capability to deliver these differentiated personalized applications, the solution gives providers the opportunity to generate new revenue streams.
At IBC, BigBand will demonstrate a range of capabilities delivered by the BigBand MSP2000, including the ability to splice and insert ads directly into encrypted video streams, time-shift TV and fast channel change.
BigBand will also be showcasing its IP-video delivery product suite for the cable industry, vIP PASS. The vIP PASS suite is designed to capitalise on existing infrastructure and deliver a smart three screen IPTV solution via DOCSIS 3.0 modems.
vIP PASS "wraps" video in DOCSIS®, the industry's signalling standard, to deliver quality video streams to IP-enabled cable modems without incurring the overhead of a cable modem termination system (CMTS) expansion. The live demonstration will show how service providers can deliver video to the "three screens" consumers want most - TVs, PCs and mobile devices - while saving valuable CMTS bandwidth for voice and data.
BigBand will also be unveiling its Converged Video Exchange or CVEx™ solution – designed to provide service provides with a means to unify multicast and unicast services. Such a video convergence strategy will give operators a common interface, allowing them to rapidly roll-out services to traditional MPEG set-top boxes and next generation IP devices, including PCs, TVs and ultimately mobile devices. While maintaining quality of service, this will allow bandwidth across the networks to be pooled and reallocated dynamically as needed.
About BigBand Networks
BigBand Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: BBND] provides broadband service providers with innovative network solutions designed to make it easier to move, manage and monetise video. These solutions are based on BigBand's video-networking platforms that are built to enable efficient and reliable delivery across a wide range of services, including digital TV, high definition TV, advanced advertising, video-on-demand and interactive TV. BigBand Networks' customers include more than 200 service providers—including seven of the ten largest service providers in the U.S.—and leading cable and telco service providers in North America, Asia, Korea, Europe and Latin America. BigBand Networks is based in Redwood City, Calif., with offices worldwide. For additional information about the company, please call +1.650.995.5000, email info@bigbandnet.com or visit www.bigbandnet.com.
CVEx, vIP PASS and other BigBand Networks' brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of BigBand Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the U.S. Federal Securities Laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to the safe harbors created by such laws. Forward-looking statements may relate to, but are not limited to the functionality, programming potential and other potential benefits to be derived by our customers from the use of the BigBand MSP2000, CVEx and vIP PASS. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve a number of uncertainties and risks that may cause actual events or results to differ materially. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include, among others, the following: rapid technological change that can adversely affect the demand for BigBand's hardware or software, design flaws in the BigBand’s products, shifts in customer demand, shifts in strategic relationships, delays in BigBand's ability to deliver the planned functionality for the BigBand MSP2000, CVEx and vIP PASS, or announcements by competitors. These and other risks may be detailed from time to time in BigBand's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which may be obtained from www.sec.gov. BigBand Networks is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Information contained in our website is not incorporated by reference in, or made part of this press release.