BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced the company’s completion of a number of key integrations that advance the delivery and availability of IP video, securely and to multiple devices. The company’s IP delivery products, including its recently announced vIP PASS™, have been integrated with leading chipset, cable modem, and digital rights management (DRM) technology providers. These integrations are designed to provide an end-to-end vIP PASS solution for delivery of IPTV that capitalizes on existing infrastructure to deliver video services to a broad range of customer devices and screens. BigBand works closely with diverse ecosystem and network partners, leveraging its experience in providing digital video networking and advertising solutions, to ease the transition from standard to high definition television.

The vIP PASS end-to-end solution is the result of integrations with leading DRM systems, off the shelf DOCSIS® 3.0 compatible cable modems and chipsets that are designed to create an open, secure and reliable IP video delivery system. On the DRM front, vIP PASS has been integrated with Widevine’s multiplatform, multiformat DRM and Video Optimization solutions for secure, high quality delivery of premium content. On the consumer premise equipment side, vIP PASS has been integrated with numerous DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems and gateway technologies including NETGEAR, Mplus Technology Co., Hitron Technologies, SerComm, and DOCSIS 3.0 chipsets from Texas Instruments and other major chipset manufacturers.

vIP PASS is compatible with and does not modify any DOCSIS 3.0 modem software. With the integration of vIP PASS with major DOCSIS 3.0 chipsets, most DOCSIS 3.0 modems can now support vIP PASS. An end-to-end solution, vIP PASS is part of BigBand’s recently announced Converged Video Exchange (CVEx™), an intelligent video control plane that provides a unified means to deliver and manage video services across networks and devices, enabling a migration path to tomorrow’s IP network.

“IPTV is not about the technology, rather it’s about the underlying promise of being able to easily move video to multiple destinations securely and cost-effectively, be it TV services to the PC or PC content to the TV or mobile devices,” said John Holobinko, vice president of marketing, BigBand Networks. “We’re pleased to work with leading technology companies to forge an open systems approach to DOCSIS 3.0-based IP video delivery that is seamless, protected and compatible with the latest cable modem technology that cable operators will deploy into millions of homes.”

BigBand’s vIP PASS solution is designed to reduce the network complexity in delivering IP video services by leveraging the same cable network architecture, software systems and network-based tools that are used to deliver and manage all of today’s proven cable video services. vIP PASS supports the delivery of IP video services to a wide variety of IP-enabled consumer electronics devices. By delivering IP video in DOCSIS format (the industry's signaling standard), vIP PASS gives service providers the ability to deliver video streams to IP devices without the need to transit through a CMTS. This is designed to offer a more cost-efficient means to deploy IPTV today, whether through managed services or over the top. vIP PASS is further enhanced by BigBand’s market-leading and field proven edge QAM platforms, video control plane technology, video QoS, and performance and viewership tools that give operators visibility into the performance and viewing statistics of their video content.

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 seven 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, including vIP PASS™ and CVEx™, 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, programming potential and other potential benefits to be derived by our customers from the use of BigBand’s vIP PASS™ solution, 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 BigBand’s vIP PASS, 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.