BigBand Networks Wins Investors' Choice Award at Network Outlook; Recognition Underscores Company's Momentum and Expanding Customer Base.Business Editors 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003 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., a leading provider of broadband multimedia routing systems for broadcast television and advanced services, today announced that it has received the Network Outlook conference Investors' Choice award. Richard A. Shaffer, principal of Technologic Partners (publisher of VentureWire and organizer of Network Outlook), made the announcement during the closing session of last week's conference in Burlingame, California Burlingame is a city in San Mateo County, California, which is the second wealthiest county in the state, as well as the fourteenth richest in the country. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula and has a significant shoreline on San Francisco Bay. . The award is given to the ten companies among 79 presenting which are deemed "most likely to succeed." "BigBand Networks is honored to receive the Investors' Choice award in recognition of our accomplishments and promise," said Amir Bassan-Eskenazi, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BigBand Networks. "The Investors' Choice award is testament to BigBand Networks' success in understanding broadband network operator needs in the current market environment, and providing powerful solutions. This recognition is underscored by our successful deployments with more than half of the top ten North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. cable operators." Company presentations at Network Outlook highlighted BigBand Networks' vision and realization of networks delivering any media at any time to any one. The company's Broadband Multimedia-Service-Router (BMR BMR basal metabolic rate. BMR abbr. basal metabolic rate BMR, n See basal metabolic rate. BMR basal metabolic rate. (R)) platform uniquely integrates high-speed switching with intensive media processing See media control. technologies used by network operators to cost effectively launch and scale services of all media types. Bassan-Eskenazi also participated in the panel discussion "Cable Connections: Helping the operators catch the digital wave" at Network Outlook, in which he commented on BigBand Networks' success in helping operators take advantage of technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet transport, and expand in markets such as digital broadcasting, HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates and VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand . Investors' Choice awards were based on voting by the audience of more than 300 entrepreneurs, investors, and industry executives, as well as a panel of experts, including Raman Khanna, general partner and managing director, Diamondhead Ventures; Carl Showalter, general partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners; Stanley Stern, head, investment banking, C.E. Unterberg Towbin; and Wojtek Uzdelewicz, senior managing director, equity research, Bear Stearns. About BigBand Networks BigBand Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and supports Broadband Multimedia-Service Routers (BMR(R)). The BMR is a new class of router built on the company's NativeMedia technology that uniquely routes and processes video, audio and data in their native formats. The field-upgradeable architecture combines advanced hardware and software technologies, for high performance media processing and switching, with agility to optimize for each service supported. This enables network operators to cost-effectively expand revenue-generating offerings of broadcast-quality content and advanced, interactive services. Services supported by the BMR include digital broadcast television, HDTV, transport of high quality video, ad insertion, VOD and iTV. The company's customers include Comcast, Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Cox Communications, Adelphia Communications, Mediacom Communications and Rogers Cable. BigBand Networks is based in Redwood City, CA. For more information on BigBand Networks, please visit www.bigbandnet.com. About Technologic Partners Technologic Partners is a publishing and events firm that has been covering venture capital and high-tech startups since 1984. Technologic publishes the VentureWire newsletters, including VentureWire Professional, VentureWire Alert, VentureWire Life Sciences, and VentueWire Wireless. Technologic also publishes ComputerLetter, VentureWire Monthly, and Semiconductor Innovation Letter, as well as producing a series of premier investor conferences. More information is available at www.venturewire.com. |
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