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BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND) today announced that its switched digital video solution has been deployed, or is being deployed, by six cable operators, across 26 systems. Over fourteen million households in North America will have access to BigBand's switched digital video solution once these deployments have all been completed, offering viewers the potential to enjoy expanded choices of high definition and standard definition programming.
"Switched digital video is being deployed at just the right time for the cable industry," said Gerry Kaufhold, principal analyst for In-Stat, a market research firm. "The technology offers service providers the tools necessary to begin offering virtually infinite HD and SD programming, while leveraging their investment in final mile infrastructure. Switched digital makes a cable TV plant more flexible, and more valuable."
BigBand Networks has integrated, or in the process of integrating, its switched digital video solution in both Motorola and Cisco set-top box environments, the only vendor, the company believes, that has demonstrated such versatility. BigBand switched digital video has also been deployed across three conditional access systems and four electronic programming guide environments.
"BigBand's cable customers are better equipped to retain and attract subscribers by offering richer choices of programming. We're continuing to introduce enhancements that will enable BigBand's switched digital video customers to move along a continuum towards infinite HD and SD programming," said Ran Oz, BigBand's chief technical officer.
An array of management and monitoring tools, such as BigBand SVA (Switched Video Analysis), accelerate switched digital video deployments, assist with troubleshooting and fault resolution, and offer opportunities to further refine program lineups.
For additional information about BigBand Networks' technologies, or to arrange a demonstration, please e-mail info@bigbandnet.com.
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 monetize 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 six of the ten largest service providers in the U.S. -- and leading cable and telco service providers in North America, Asia, 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.
BigBand Networks' brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of BigBand Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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's switched digital video solution, 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 products, design flaws in BigBand's switched digital video solution, shifts in customer demand, shifts in strategic relationships, delays in BigBand's ability to deliver or decisions to discontinue its products and services, 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.
SOURCE: BigBand Networks, Inc.
