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BigBand Brings Digital Video Networking Expertise to Cable Congress 2011
Switched digital video and IP solutions help European operators increase revenue-generating services
February 15, 2011
REDWOOD CITY, Calif, February 15, 2011 - BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND), a leader in digital video networking, is bringing its switched digital video (SDV) and IP expertise to Cable Congress 2011 (Stand #24). At the event, the company will discuss how its innovative solutions can help European operators reduce churn and increase ARPU by optimizing their bandwidth, increasing the number of channels and services offered, and delivering multiscreen video.
Today's consumers are looking for more choice, content and alternatives to view video beyond the traditional TV in the home; creating increased pressure for service providers to offer more services and respond to these new market imperatives. BigBand's solutions help operators use these disruptive forces to their advantage and profit from the delivery of video services to TVs, PCs, tablets, mobile phones and gaming devices.
BigBand industry specialists will be on hand to discuss SDV and IP solutions. These solutions leverage existing infrastructure and network assets to provide broad support for today's protocols and standards as well as the converged IP video networks of tomorrow. These affordable and future-proof solutions are available today.
Cable Congress 2011 will take place in Lucerne, Zurich from the 15-17 of February 2011.
About BigBand Networks
BigBand Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: BBND] provides broadband service providers with innovative digital video networking 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, IPTV, video-on-demand and interactive TV. BigBand Networks has done business with more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe -- including seven of the ten largest cable and telco service providers in North 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 media alert 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 IP video and switched digital video 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 in international markets, design flaws in BigBand's IP video and/or switched digital video solution, shifts in customer demand, shifts in strategic relationships, delays in BigBand's ability to deliver 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.