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BIGBAND SHIPS 500,000 INDUSTRY-LEADING EDGE QAMS
BEQ™ Edge QAM platform leads in market share and outperforms on reliability and cost effectiveness
May 5, 2009
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 5, 2009—BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced that it has shipped one-half of one million edge QAM, which BigBand believes is an industry first. Nearly 60 service providers worldwide have selected BigBand's edge QAM platforms, including the current BEQ™6000, for efficient and reliable delivery of advanced video and data services. The market-proven BEQ series QAM platform continues to out pace competing platforms, leading the industry in reliability, offering the lowest total cost of ownership, and supporting unique applications that offer additional savings and revenue opportunities.
"We are excited to mark a major industry milestone with the deployment of half a million BigBand QAMs," said John Holobinko, vice president of marketing, BigBand Networks. "Our customers recognize that reliability and total cost of ownership are becoming paramount as the number of QAMs expands in response to demands for more video content. Space, power, reliability and performance are now key. TL9000 based data confirms that the yearly return rate of the BEQ6000 is half the industry average, which is a tremendous accomplishment. The half million milestone affirms our commitment to provide innovative platforms and solutions that are focused on delivering the greatest value to network operators through high reliability, operating efficiency, and performance."
The BEQ6000 is the industry's leading QAM for SDV, and also supports broadcast, VOD and modular CMTS. It is also the first QAM in the industry to offer support to innovative applications such as vIP Pass, for low cost video IP delivery IP set tops through DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems and ultimately to PCs. Its resilient architecture is designed for superior performance and scalability, while enhancing the delivery of digital television services. BigBand's edge QAMs deliver the lowest total cost of ownership with low power consumption and dynamic utilization of bandwidth and network resources in real-time.
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 seven 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.
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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 edge QAMs and the benefit received from implementation of BigBand's vIP Pass. These 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 edge QAMs, 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.