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BigBand Networks to Showcase Video and Advertising Innovations at TelcoTV 2007
Video pioneer to exhibit widely-deployed telco video solutions, demonstrate next-generation technologies at industry conference
October 18, 2007
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 18, 2007—BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND), will conduct a range of public and private demonstrations of solutions designed to allow telecommunications carriers to add advanced video services—including digital TV, IPTV and addressable advertising—at next week’s TelcoTV conference. BigBand’s public exhibit will take place in booth 531 Oct. 23 – Oct. 25 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, and private demonstrations will be conducted for customers in a separate suite.
BigBand plans to demonstrate delivery of digital television, local and addressable advertising and interactive video services capabilities over existing telco networks with its carrier-grade video networking platforms. These include an extensive suite of digital TV management functionality and modular, “pay as you grow” solutions with a history of field-demonstrated interoperability with third-party devices and solutions, including video-on-demand (VOD) servers, ad servers, conditional access systems, electronic programming guides and set-top boxes. BigBand’s platforms are among the most widely-deployed in their category, and support more than 200 video service providers and 50 million subscribers worldwide.
BigBand will also present in a panel on the final day of the conference. John Reister, BigBand’s Chief IPTV Architect, will discuss the revenue-generating capabilities of new advertising technologies in “Maximizing Advertising Opportunities,” scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 25 at 4:00 p.m. For additional information about BigBand Networks’ technologies, or to arrange a meeting at the conference, please email 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 of video, voice and data across a wide range of services, including digital TV, high definition TV, addressable advertising, video-on-demand, interactive TV, Internet TV, video telephony, high-speed Internet and voice-over-IP. 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 BigBand’s solutions, 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 and solutions, design flaws in the 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.