BigBand Networks Debuts Innovative Video Management Capabilities

BigBand VMS simplifies video operations, accelerates service turn-up times and enhances network troubleshooting and maintenance

April 2, 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 2, 2008—BigBand Networks, Inc., (NASDAQ: BBND), a leading innovator in video networking, today announced a new video management system (VMS) designed to simplify video service deployment and operations, enhance video service delivery and reduce network operating costs. BigBand’s VMS expedites and simplifies network management by automating configuration changes—including the addition of new network elements and services—for small and large-scale networks. BigBand’s first release of VMS is being deployed in North America and is available worldwide.

“As video networks grow in complexity and scale, the need for video-specific network management has become more acute,” said Tara Howard, analyst of enabling technologies for the Yankee Group.  “The myriad network elements required to support a large-scale video service deployment can be expensive and time consuming to manage.  Solutions such as BigBand’s VMS can help significantly reduce operating costs, simplify the deployment and operation of video services, and enhance service quality as competition for end users continues to intensify.”

Specific benefits of BigBand’s VMS include:

• Topology Management to simplify operations.  With a user-friendly graphical interface and hierarchical map layout, VMS can logically and geographically partition network elements across different organizational groups.

• Fault Management to improve network availability. VMS leverages a range of views, events, alarms and real-time performance statistics to allow operators to quickly and easily pin-point and troubleshoot network or service problems.

• Element Management & Mass Configuration for faster and more efficient change management. VMS allows multiple network elements to be quickly and simultaneously configured, changed or replicated by multiple, concurrent users across a network. Examples can include mass software upgrades, backup and restore functions, and other standard configuration changes.

• Reduced operating costs.  VMS’ surveillance, configuration, provisioning, northbound systems integration, performance and security management capabilities are designed to empower BigBand’s video solution portfolio and assist in reducing operational expenses, minimizing service rollout times and improving network quality.

“VMS reduces the costs and complexities associated with managing digital video services,” said David Heard, chief operating officer of BigBand Networks. “This new tool will allow operators to significantly improve the reliability and performance of their video services, and enable more efficient network operations.”

VMS is available now. For product pricing and availability information, please send email to sales@bigbandnet.com. For technical specifications and other information about BigBand’s new video management solution, please visit vms.html?release=vmslaunch.

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.

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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 BigBand VMS, 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.