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BigBand Networks to Demonstrate Carrier-Grade Video Solutions at NXTcomm '07.


Video pioneer to showcase technologies designed to enable profitable telco video services

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
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: BBND), will exhibit its proven, industry-leading video solutions for telecommunications carriers and present in two panel discussion sessions during NXTcomm '07. The company will also conduct a series of private demonstrations showcasing its latest innovations Tuesday, June 19th through Thursday, June 21st in Booth 3919 at McCormick Place Coordinates:

McCormick Place is an enormous exposition complex located in Chicago, Illinois.
 in Chicago. BigBand's public demonstrations will include:

* Advanced Telco Video Services. This demonstration will show how the company's carrier-grade, NEBS-compliant platforms empower service providers to deliver large-scale, profitable video services. BigBand's suite of digital TV management and delivery capabilities will be on display, including content acquisition, video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. , ad insertion, statistical multiplexing See statistical multiplexor. , and reliable program transport to support a wide variety of access networks, including xDSL and fiber networks.

* Video Management System. This demonstration highlights the capabilities of the BigBand Video Network Management System (VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. ) to support efficient management of large-scale video networks. The BigBand VMS is designed to offer operators easy access, through a powerful GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. , to a tool kit supporting secure discovery, topology, and enhanced element management.

BigBand executives will also speak in the following NXTcomm sessions:

* At the ATIS ATIS - A Tools Integration Standard  TechThink Technology Conference's IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet.  Mind Bender Session, "The Ultimate Entertainment! The IPTV Experience," BigBand chief technology officer Ran Oz will discuss the present and future of IP video technology development. The Q&A panel is scheduled for Tuesday, June 19th from 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

* At Digital Hollywood's session, "Personalized TV: Exploring the True Power of IPTV," BigBand chief architect of IPTV John Reister John Reister (1715-1804) was a German immigrant to the United States who founded the town of Reisterstown, Maryland in 1758.

Born in 1715 and raised in Germany, John Reister moved to the United States in September 1738.
 will discuss the requirements necessary to fulfill IPTV's potential for providing customized entertainment experiences. The panel is scheduled for Wednesday, June 20th from 2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

For additional information about BigBand Networks' technologies, or to arrange a private demonstration, please email info@bigbandnet.com.

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 Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be  advertising, video on demand, interactive TV, Internet TV, video telephony, high-speed Internet and voice-over-IP. BigBand Networks' customers include more than 100 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.

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 The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  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 features of BigBand Networks' products and the potential benefits to be derived from BigBand Networks' products. Such 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, shifts in customer demand, shifts in strategic relationships, delays in BigBand's ability to deliver 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.
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