BigBand Networks and NDS Collaborate on DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway Integration.REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- CableLabs(R) Demonstration of IP Technology Benefits Illustrates More Scalable, Reliable and Controllable Video Services BigBand Networks, Inc., a leading provider of network platforms for video, voice and data services, and NDS Group plc (Nasdaq/Euronext Brussels: NNDS NNDS Norsk Nettverk for Down Syndrom (Norway) ), a News Corporation company and a leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced successful integration of their advanced mode DSG DSG Direct Shift Gearbox (Audi) DSG Dosage DSG Deputy Secretary General DSG Dressing DSG Designate DSG Desmoglein DSG Duke Student Government (Duke University) (DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) A cable modem standard from the CableLabs research consortium (www.cablelabs.com), which provides equipment certification for interoperability. (R) Set-top Gateway)-based functionality. At the CableLabs winter conference, the companies demonstrated interoperability of video provided by the BigBand BMR BMR basal metabolic rate. BMR abbr. basal metabolic rate BMR, n See basal metabolic rate. BMR basal metabolic rate. (R) (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router) with service control signaling on the BigBand Cuda(R) CMTS (Cable Modem Termination System) A computerized device that enables cable modems to send and receive packets over the Internet. It inserts IP packets from the Internet into MPEG frames and transmits them to the cable modems via an RF signal. (cable modem termination system A cable modem termination system or CMTS is equipment typically found in a cable company's headend, or at cable company hubsite and is used to provide high speed data services, such as cable internet or Voice over IP, to cable subscribers. ), interfacing to NDS's hybrid IP and MPEG-2 digital video set-top box system. "Partnering with NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services is natural for BigBand Networks due to both companies' dedication to open systems interoperability that leverages IP technologies," said John Connelly, executive vice president of marketing and business development for BigBand Networks. "This advanced mode DSG implementation shows the specification's value through rapid integration of hardware, software and systems design technologies of both BigBand Networks and NDS." In the demonstration at CableLabs' winter conference, a QNS QNS Quantity not sufficient Lab medicine An abbreviation indicating that the material–eg, blood, urine, submitted for analysis is insufficient for requested test set-top box supplied with NDS MediaHighway(TM) middleware and NDS VideoGuard(R) conditional access solution, utilized an integrated cable modem in order to exchange program, network and service management information with a BigBand Cuda CMTS via scalable and robust DOCSIS signaling. The programs themselves were delivered to the set-top box from a BigBand BMR based on MPEG-2 video, the predominant format utilized for digital cable. "CableLabs' IP methodologies - such as advanced mode DSG - offer a broad set of choices for cable operators, providing the ideal, open environment for NDS conditional access solutions," said Dr. Dov Rubin, vice president and general manager of NDS Americas. "This demonstration indicates the power of DSG to deliver standards-based video services with constantly improving capacity, reliability and functionality, just the type of expanding customer capabilities which NDS strives to deliver. We are very pleased to have successfully partnered with BigBand Networks to demonstrate this important technology integration." The DSG specification concerns messaging transport between headend and customer premises equipment See CPE. including digital set-top devices, two-way OpenCable(TM) devices, and residential gateways. These devices can combine both digital set-top and cable modem capabilities. Utilizing the cable modem for technical communications with a DSG-qualified CMTS like the BigBand Cuda achieves better scalability and economics than legacy out-of-band messaging methods. DSG integrates video services within cable's increasingly IP-based management and transport infrastructure. ABOUT BIGBAND NETWORKS BigBand Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and supports platforms for broadband multimedia services. These platforms are built on open technologies uniquely capable of communicating and processing video, voice and data for best delivery throughout networks. As a result, network operators can cost-effectively expand revenue-generating offerings of rich content and advanced, interactive services. Services supported by BigBand Networks' platforms include high-speed data, voice over IP, digital broadcast television, 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 , transport of high quality video, local advertising, VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand and iTV. The company's customers include seven of the top ten North American cable operators. BigBand Networks is based in Redwood City, CA. For more information on BigBand Networks, please visit www.bigbandnet.com. ABOUT NDS NDS Group plc (Nasdaq/Euronext Brussels: NNDS) is a leading supplier of open end-to-end digital pay TV solutions for the secure delivery of entertainment and information to television set-top boxes and IP devices. See www.nds.com for more information about NDS. CableLabs, OpenCable and DOCSIS are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. An equipment demonstration at a CableLabs' event does not constitute CableLabs' endorsement of that equipment. |
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