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BigBand Networks BEQ6000 Universal Edge QAM Named Finalist for Light Reading's Best New Product of 2007
Distinction acknowledges company’s pioneering work on switched digital video and Modular CMTS solutions
October 9, 2007
Redwood City, Calif., Oct. 9, 2007—BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND) today announced that the BEQ™6000 has been selected as a finalist for Light Reading’s 2007 “Best New Product from a Public Company” award. The award is presented to the company that has developed a market-leading product whose engineering and technical excellence enables the deployment of profitable, next-generation telecommunications services. The five finalists—also including Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Corning Inc.’s ClearCurve Optical Fiber, Fujitsu Network Communications Inc.’s Flashwave 9500 Packet Optical Networking Platform and Soapstone Networks’ Provider Network Controller—were selected by a panel of Light Reading editors and Heavy Reading analysts.
As BigBand’s first “universal” edge QAM platform, the BEQ6000 is designed to deliver a wide range of video, data and voice services, and is optimized to support advanced technologies such as switched digital video (SDV), video-on-demand (VOD) and Modular CMTS (M-CMTS). BigBand believes it has deployed more edge QAMs for SDV and M-CMTS than all of its competitors combined. The BEQ6000 has been deployed by service providers in North America, Asia and Europe. The platform’s superior RF performance and reliability allow it to achieve what BigBand estimates to be the lowest total cost of ownership of any available edge QAM.
“The BEQ6000—BigBand’s third generation edge QAM—is built upon on years of engineering work and deployment experience,” said John Holobinko, BigBand’s vice president and general manager of cable IP. “We’ve designed this platform to deliver the best RF performance, total cost of ownership and reliability in the industry, and this distinction recognizes how important those attributes are to our customers.”
The Leading Lights Awards, launched in 2004, annually recognizes top public and private companies for outstanding achievements in next-generation communications. This year’s award winners will be unveiled at the Leading Lights Awards dinner Oct. 15 in New York. For more information, see: www.lightreading.com/leadinglights.
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.
BEQ6000 and all other BigBand Networks’ brand and product names 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, superior RF performance, reduced total cost of ownership and other potential benefits to be derived by our customers from the use of the BEQ6000. These 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 the BEQ6000, 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.