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Time Warner Cable Continues To Expand Programming With BigBand Switched Digital Video
BigBand Networks today announced that Time Warner Cable (TWC) will be deploying BigBand's Switched Digital Video (SDV) solution to offer new programming options in the cable operator's Los Angeles, New York City and Dallas systems.
September 16, 2009
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., — BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced that Time Warner Cable (TWC) will be deploying BigBand's Switched Digital Video (SDV) solution to offer new programming options in the cable operator's Los Angeles, New York City and Dallas systems.
"We have launched SDV in over 20 markets to date and know firsthand that, if we want to deploy new programming options for our customers, SDV is the fastest, most cost effective method for our existing network," said Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president of technology policy and product management. "With the bandwidth that has been reclaimed Time Warner Cable is able to offer over 100 high definition channels to our customers and can launch such services as DOCSIS® 3.0 and HD Video on Demand. We can do these things with the confidence that the BigBand solution is giving us the reliability and high level of performance we have come to expect."
"Time Warner Cable has been a trusted strategic partner since the first deployment of SDV. They immediately saw that bandwidth expansion was just the first of many benefits that it can bring to a network," said Amir Bassan-Eskenazi, BigBand's president and CEO. "As part of our recently announced CVEx software platform, our SDV solution is built to accommodate the exploding demand for video services and personalized content in an economical and evolutionary approach."
BigBand SDV has been deployed, or is being deployed, by seven of the top 10 service providers in North America. The company's SDV solution helps service providers optimize the network spectrum needed for bandwidth-intensive services such as HDTV and long-tail content. The SDV solution is designed to provide a path to personalized television services by migrating seamlessly from multicast to ultimately individualized, unicast delivery. BigBand's SDV is part of the company's broader approach to helping service providers achieve a converged network for video delivery as part of the Converged Video Exchange (CVEx™) software platform, which is designed to unify the way that service providers deliver and manage linear and non-linear video services across the network edge, to traditional MPEG set-top boxes and next generation IP devices.
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.
BigBand Networks' brand and product names, including Converged Video Exchange (CVEx), 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 Time Warner Cable and other BigBand customers from the use of BigBand's SDV solution and CVEx platform, 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 solutions development delays or flaws, changed research and development priorities that affect the actual functionality delivered future releases of BigBand's solutions, 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.