BigBand Named as 2009 Light Reading Top Pick.Converged Video Exchange (CVEx) Platform Selected as Top Product in Video Infrastructure Category REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- BigBand Networks BigBand Networks (known as BigBand ; NASDAQ: BBND) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. BigBand manufactures and sells digital video and data processing platforms and solutions in areas ranging from digital video to CMTS. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced that its Converged Video Exchange (CVEx [TM]) platform has been named a Light Reading Top Pick in the video infrastructure category for the Americas region. The editors of Light Reading, the leading integrated media company serving the worldwide communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. , made its top picks of communications products and services from all over the world that could potentially shake up the industry. CVEx is designed to be the industry's first intelligent software control plane that helps service providers migrate to a converged network The integration of the telephone system with IP-based data networks. See softswitch. (networking) converged network - A single network that can carry voice, video and data. for reliable and high quality video delivery. CVEx will help unify the way that service providers deliver and manage linear and non-linear video services across the network edge, to traditional MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). set-top boxes and next generation IP devices. "Congratulations to all the companies and individuals who were selected as this year's Top Picks," said Phil Harvey Phil Harvey (1938) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and libertarian who over the past 30 years has set up large scale programs that deliver subsidized contraceptives in poor countries, has supported freedom of speech issues in the US--all with profits from an American , Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief. "The Top Picks were chosen by Light Reading's editors because they embody the trends that we feel are really pushing this industry forward." For all the areas except Services, Light Reading's editors chose one Top Pick per category from each of three regions: the Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. ); and Asia/Pacific. To see the final selections, visit the Top Picks page on Light Reading at: http://www.lightreading.com/top-picks. 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. |
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