Testimonials
Time Warner Cable
"BigBand Networks' BMR provides next-generation flexibility in a robust, reliable architecture capable of doing much more than digital video grooming."
-- Louis Williamson, vice president of network architecture
Cox Communications
"Cox has experienced significant growth as consumers realize the benefits of bundling their voice, data and video services from one trusted provider. Assuring that our customers' needs are met, whether it's signing up for a new service or assigning an IP address to their modem, is vital to maintaining high service levels and low churn. BigBand's FastFlow BPM is a great solution for provisioning those services, because it offers flexibility to meet our changing needs as well as scalability to handle significant customer growth."
-- Mark Yang, Executive Director of Data Products and Services Operations and Engineering
Cablevision
"With BigBand's Switched Broadcast, we can significantly increase the number of channels we can provide to customers over our existing hybrid fiber coaxial cable network. We are using BigBand Networks' groundbreaking technology today to deliver nine distinct, in-language international programming options across our entire service area, and we see this as an important tool in our efforts to deliver new choices for our diverse and growing customer base."
-- Patricia Gottesman, executive vice president of product management and marketing
Cable One
"Cable One is working with BigBand Networks as part of our commitment to deploying technologies that achieve excellent services for our subscribers. The BigBand BMR enables rich digital television experiences by greatly increasing the quantity, quality and functionality of Cable One's standard and high definition digital programming; and the platform's scalability and programmability assure further advances in the services we provide."
-- Stephen Fox, vice president digital services and technology
Yankee Group
"Switched Broadcast will solve the cable operators' bandwidth shortage without requiring another round of expensive network upgrades. Switched Broadcast will further improve bandwidth management solutions such as RateShaping and multiplexing, and allow time to migrate subscribers to digital tiers."
-- Aditya Kishore media and entertainment strategies analyst
SureWest Communications(NASDAQ:SURW) and its subsidiaries
"One of the key factors in our original decision to standardize on the BigBand BMR was its extensible and scalable architecture. We knew that using the IP FTTP service delivery model provided flexibility and cost-effective bandwidth efficiency to not only deliver HDTV, SDTV, voice and data services, but also to extend interactive television capabilities. The BigBand BMR has been as fundamental to offering new HDTV services as it has been in our earlier digital video launches, and it also provides us with a platform upon which to continue launching new feature-rich services."
-- Bill DeMuth, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
WaveDivision Holdings, parent company of Astound Broadband
"As a nimble, fast growing operator, we prize innovation, and BigBand Networks has consistently delivered video technology that keeps us ahead of the curve. The BMR has enabled us to provide advanced digital advertising insertion on our analog and digital programming. In the future, we can use the BMR to support some of the more advanced developments in the industry, including addressable advertising, high-definition programming and switched broadcast."
-- Steven Weed, CEO for WaveDivision Holdings, parent company of Astound Broadband
ABI Research
"Particularly in combination with switched digital video, viewership analysis is a powerful tool that can result in far more efficient delivery of television programming. BigBand is playing a leading role in the deployment of switched digital video, and its analysis module should make those implementations even more bandwidth-efficient."
-- Michael Arden, an analyst with ABI Research and the author of a recent report on bandwidth management techniques.
In-Stat
"BigBand Networks pioneered switched digital broadcast and is ramping up commercial deployments at just the right time for the industry. Switched digital can allow operators to significantly increase HDTV programming and meet subscriber demand for new services."
-- Gerry Kaufhold, principal analyst for In-Stat
Jieyang Cable
"The migration to digital TV services is a very important initiative in China. "BigBand Networks' extensive experience and innovation with digital video has really been a significant help to our effort. The BMR's 'headend-in-a-box' capabilities make it a good solution to manage and deliver digital video on Chinese cable networks."
-- Wei Hongbin, director of Jieyang Cable
Xiamen CATV
"BigBand's Cuda and FastFlow provide the foundation for Xiamen CATV to deploy an advanced IP services implementation that delivers rich content—including television programming and Internet content—reliably. BigBand Networks' programmable architecture allows Xiamen CATV to give its subscribers a powerful set of broadband Internet capabilities today, with the prospect of adding speed enhancements and other new features in the future."
-- Xianjiong Liu, chief technology officer of Xiamen CATV
Keumkang Cable
"We purchased and deployed the BigBand BMR based on the recommendations of other leading cable operators in Korea that have already experienced the benefits of integrating headend functionality in a single, compact unit," said "We aren't aware of another product that allows us to build a digital media center so easily and cost effectively."
-- Mr. Ki-Sung, Heo, chief operating officer, Keumkang Cable
Digiweb
"The high capacity, speed and reliability of the BigBand Cuda with the multi-service control of BigBand FastFlow gives Digiweb a competitive advantage in combining the high quality of DOCSIS 2.0 services with the ubiquity and efficiency of wireless networking. After extensive testing, BigBand Networks stands out with solutions for operation of Digiweb's nationwide facilities, and provides a best-of-breed partnership as our offerings extend to more services and richer media including digital video and HDTV."
-- John Quinn, head of strategic development
Hargray Communications
"Hargray Communications is working with BigBand Networks to deliver a broad line-up of high-quality video services in order to have the best offering for subscribers within our competitive marketplace. The versatility of the BigBand BMR addresses needs ranging from bandwidth efficiency to protocol agility to future upgradeability for Hargray's delivery of video services over our diverse plants."
-- Ed Heuck, vice president of technology
Symmetricom (NASDAQ:SYMM)
"Symmetricom's DTI client reference design is the first embedded time and frequency solution available in the market, and we are excited about our partnerships with industry innovators such as BigBand Networks."
-- Gurdip Jande, senior vice president of marketing.
Suddenlink Communications
"Suddenlink has very quickly grown into one of the larger cable operators in the U.S., and BigBand's FastFlow made that transition much easier. FastFlow's intuitive user interface gave us extensive visibility into service delivery on our new, multi-vendor networks and made service deployment much easier than we anticipated. The platform is also designed to scale well to support additional growth."
-- Jeff Strout, vice president of IP engineering and operations.
SureWest Communications
"After extensive testing of multiple alternatives, we selected BigBand Networks' platform solution to quickly deploy and expand our video service offerings over DSL and fiber. The BigBand BMR is key within the SureWest deployment, interoperating openly with components from other leading vendors, and scaling to meet the growing demand for our triple-play offering of video, voice and high speed data."
-- Bill DeMuth, vice president and chief technology officer for SureWest Communications
Cahners In-Stat Group
"Operators are responding enthusiastically to BigBand Networks establishing a new system category with the Broadband Multimedia-Service Router. They are increasingly challenged to extend growth and compete effectively by expanding advanced service offerings. BigBand Networks' BMR meets this challenge by intelligently managing bandwidth, content and network resources in real time."
-- Gerry Kaufhold, digital TV market principal analyst for Cahners In-Stat Group
ish
"BigBand Networks provides the open interoperability, scalability, reliability and cost effectiveness vital for fulfilling our commitment to our customers. With this flexible platform approach, we can rapidly expand our digital programming product throughout our broad subscriber base with ease."
-- Günther Stein, chief technology officer for ish
Dreamline
"Dreamline's broadband subscribers have interests ranging from video content to commercial services to gaming, and using the BigBand Cuda provides Internet connections that are fast and robust enough to support them all. Working with BigBand Networks meets our needs both now and as we expand offerings of video, voice and interactive services through networked deployments with our cable partners all over Korea."
-- Byeong Ryeol Kim, director of technology planning division for Dreamline
Wave Broadband
"Bandwidth is our most valuable resource, and by utilizing the BigBand BMR for HDTV with RateShaping, we conserve spectrum that can support additional services such as VOD. The BMR provides a platform for us to easily and economically add these services and further expand HD programming, while forestalling future plant upgrades."
-- Steven Weed, chief executive officer for Wave Broadband
Bright House Networks
"Bright House Networks is committed to providing high quality, reliable video services to our subscribers. We are leveraging the benefits of BigBand Deep Digital Transport, using the established BMR platform with Gigabit Ethernet technology to automatically and cost effectively achieve redundancy switching for our entire digital video service."
--Gene White, vice president of engineering for Bright House Networks Tampa Bay
CAIW
"It was a priority to work with a partner that brings technology and service expertise for seamless extension of our high quality video services to IP environments. BigBand Networks' integrated solution provides all of the necessary functionality for IP television services."
-- Aart Verbee, chief executive officer for CAIW
Millennium Digital Media
"With BigBand Networks' integrated solution for CMTS and provisioning, we are able to fulfill subscriber demand with next-generation VoIP and data services on a budget and time frame that meet our needs. Cuda and FastFlow were selected because Millennium prioritizes comprehensive support from a single vendor that can work across multiple sites."
-- Gil Nichols, senior vice president of operations for Millennium Digital Media
Vidéotron
"Vidéotron's digital TV services are defining the future of television as a vital information service for our subscribers across Québec. The BigBand BMR's versatility provides the best solution for our needs as it supports maximum video quality with efficient network transport over long distances."
-- Mohamed Drif, senior director of engineering for Vidéotron
Aptiv Digital, Inc.
"BigBand Networks has been at the forefront in defining and realizing switched broadcast technologies, which expands operators' capabilities to provide digital programming, HDTV, VOD and other offerings."
--Neil Jones, senior vice president for Aptiv Digital, Inc. (formerly Pioneer Digital Technologies)
Multikabel
"Cuda reliably achieves the connectivity required to deliver rich media services over the fastest access speeds available in the Netherlands."
-- Ritzo Holtman, network director for Multikabel
Cox Media
"BigBand Networks provides cost-effective and scalable means for Cox to deploy and grow local ad insertion, in order to generate additional revenues that leverage our expanding base of digital subscribers."
--Guy McCormick, vice president of technical operations for Cox Media
Wide Open West
"The BigBand BMR scales back our costs while we launch HDTV and expand digital broadcasting. BigBand Networks' networked platform approach to digital video services maximizes resource efficiency and enables open expansion of services and infrastructure solutions."
-- Michael Brody, chief technology officer for Wide Open West
Comporium
"We have had great success with BigBand Networks' Cuda, FastFlow and BMR, and have been impressed with the BigBand BRE as a best-of-class solution for digital encoding. These standards-based platforms support the whole gamut of architectures, including fiber-to-the-home, twisted pair and hybrid fiber-coax. Comporium is an innovative company that needs innovative suppliers-BigBand Networks fits the bill."
-- Dan Smith, vice president of engineering and planning for Comporium
