Buckeye CableSystem Selects BigBand for Fast and Cost Effective IP Video Delivery

BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced that Buckeye CableSystem, an innovative independent operator, will extend its switched digital video infrastructure using BigBand’s IP video solution to offer new IP video services to multiple platforms with support for existing business models with the flexibility to integrate with today’s digital rights management solutions. Buckeye has selected Verimatrix for its digital TV security solutions for the trial period. BigBand’s IP video solution encompasses vIP PASS™, which is designed for rapid deployment of IPTV leveraging existing infrastructure, and CVEx™, the company’s control plane that optimizes bandwidth and service delivery across RF and IP transport layers. The deployment marks the first publicly-announced deployment of vIP PASS in North America.

“We are evolving our network capabilities and video services to meet the demands of the next-generation of multi-tasking viewers by offering them the content they want to watch without creating an additional silo for IP video delivery,” said Joe Jensen, Buckeye’s chief technology officer. “We worked closely with BigBand to assemble a solution that builds upon our existing infrastructure, using the same network and back office systems we employ today, to develop a high quality and reliable delivery method that will scale to deliver IP video quickly and cost effectively.”

“BigBand has always believed in an evolutionary approach to innovation that gives our customers the ability to leverage their existing network assets and efficiencies with a graceful migration path to full IP video convergence,” said Ran Oz, Executive Vice President, CTO and Co-Founder of BigBand Networks. “Our IP video approach can open up new market opportunities for operators by allowing them to select the right mix of operational and capital investment to support a multi-screen delivery strategy, and allowing them to quickly expand and turn on new services as demand increases.”

BigBand’s IP product suite is an integrated approach to IP video delivery that includes BigBand’s vIP PASS, an end-to-end video IP delivery platform and CVEx (Converged Video Exchange), the industry’s first intelligent software control plane that provides convergence between different video applications, RF and IP transports, and end-user screens. BigBand’s vIP PASS solution enables IP video delivery to multiple devices using existing infrastructure while saving valuable cable modem termination system (CMTS) bandwidth for voice and data by "wrapping" video in DOCSIS®.

The vIP PASS solution is currently deployed in Korea with LG Powercom, Korea’s largest HFC network serving over 2.3 million subscribers, delivering IPTV services to PCs and IP set-top boxes.

About BigBand Networks

BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND) provides broadband service providers with innovative digital video networking 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' has done business with more than 200 customers -- including seven of the ten largest service providers in the U.S. -- and leading cable and telco service providers in North America, Asia and Europe. 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.

About Buckeye Cablevision, Inc.

Buckeye Cablevision, Inc. is the largest cable firm operating in the Toledo, Ohio area, with more than 150,000 customers in Toledo and 27 of its contiguous suburbs and adjacent townships. It is the 22nd largest cable operator in the United States. It was founded in 1965 and is the second oldest continuously-owned large-city cable system in the US.

It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Block Communications, Inc. Block Communications is a holding company which also owns Buckeye TeleSystem, a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier; The Blade of Toledo and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, both daily newspapers; another cable television system in Sandusky, OH, and broadcast television stations in Lima, OH, Louisville, KY, Springfield/Decatur, IL, and Boise, ID. Block also owns Metro Fiber & Cable Construction Co., also headquartered in Toledo, Ohio.

About Verimatrix

Verimatrix is the global leader in software-based pay-TV content security and sets the standard for content and revenue security solutions for pay-TV networks, with a global customer base of premier service providers. The Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) offers a suite of independently audited, next-generation solutions and is consistently ranked as the global leading IPTV content protection solution. The company’s 3-Dimensional Content Security approach, built around VCAS and its ViewRight® client device technologies, enables the business of content delivery to screens of all types, across multiple networks, while using multiple layers of protection techniques to achieve the widest security perimeter. Maintaining close relationships with major studios, broadcasters, industry organizations and a progressive partner ecosystem helps address the challenges facing the pay-TV industry of today, and anticipate the challenges of tomorrow. For more information, please visit www.verimatrix.com or our Pay TV Views blog to join the conversation.

CVEx, vIP PASS, and 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 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 the BigBand’s IP video product suite, including vIP PASS and CVEx. 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 and/or CVEx, 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.

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