BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBND), a leader in digital video
networking, today announced its ultra dense 40:1 QAM for the
company’s Media Services Platform (MSP). The breakthrough solution
is designed to enable service providers to cost effectively scale
and optimize the edge with dynamic bandwidth agility on the entire
50MHz to 1GHz RF spectrum using a platform that supports highly
reliable multi-application video services delivery.
“With the advent of more narrowcast services, CMAP-class
platforms will be needed to increase QAM-per-port density without
using additional powering or rack space,” said Jorge Salinger, Vice
President of Access Architecture at Comcast. “BigBand is addressing
the demanding access requirements facing MSOs to enable an easier
migration towards next-generation converged service delivery at the
edge.”
An Ultra Dense QAM Platform Enables More Efficient
Architecture
Today’s standalone QAM products do not deliver the required
operational performance, including redundancy and management
capabilities to support thousands of QAMs, and dozens of service
groups per hub in a single platform. BigBand’s new ultra dense QAM
platform is designed to deliver attractive economics with power and
space savings, high availability service delivery, and efficient
operating tools to provision and monitor multiple services.
“The industry needs a more platform-based QAM approach, with a
management system if it is to respond efficiently to how the
marketplace is evolving. Put another way, MSOs need a more agile
and resilient QAM with full redundancy if they are to support
multi-application services and future architectures such as CMAP
and IP delivered video,” said Jeff Heynen, Directing Analyst of
Broadband and Video, Infonetics Research. “To simply add more and
more dense, single purpose QAMs poses challenges within the
existing and relatively limited, headend space that operators are
working with today. With more QAMs per service group (port),
including supporting more unicast services such as VOD and IPTV,
this could also result in large service disruptions in the event of
a failure or outage.”
BigBand’s platform-based approach ushers in a new paradigm in
QAM technology, combining high density with a high availability
multi-service platform that offers the ability to quickly add new
applications and share bandwidth efficiently across multiple
applications. This includes enabling services such as advanced
advertising, and personalized services such as IPTV and timeshift
TV. The chassis is designed to support in excess of 3,800 QAMs or
as many as 40 QAMs per port to meet the access needs of even the
most demanding hub locations.
“The industry is moving towards a converged platform
architecture to prepare for the coming wave of personalized
services and the continued explosive growth of video services to
both traditional set top boxes and an increasing set of IP-enabled
consumer devices. Single purpose QAMs are no longer sufficient, and
the new architecture demands a platform that streamlines
operations, provides the flexibility to share bandwidth between
services, and ensures the ability to quickly add new services,”
said Ilan Kaftan, Vice President of QAM Product Line Management,
BigBand Networks. “BigBand’s MSP leverages our QAM leadership and
advanced media processing capabilities to enable service providers
to expand new services in a highly cost effective and reliable
manner.”
Multiservice Platform
BigBand’s new ultra dense QAM is a blade or plug-in to the
BigBand MSP platform including both the MSP1200 compact chassis
platform and the higher capacity MSP2800. The MSP1200 offers
support for an excess of 1,200 QAMs per chassis and the higher
capacity MSP2800 will support more than 3,800 QAMs per chassis with
a software upgrade. The range of chassis sizes offers service
providers a choice in meeting service demands across different
locations, resulting in attractive operating and capital
economics.
Advanced Management Solution
With the adoption of ultra dense QAM solutions, cable service
providers are faced with the challenge of managing many channels
per service group shared across multiple applications. BigBand’s
CVEx™ (Converged Video Exchange) control plane helps to manage
multiple services efficiently while BigBand’s VMS (Video Management
System) tool offers simple and efficient network operations. These
advanced management systems enable rapid deployment, lower cost
operations and higher performance with improved service
quality.
The BigBand MSP QAM offers industry leading capabilities,
including:
- Platform approach for operational
simplicity. High density QAMs in a multiservice platform are
designed to yield efficient networking and greater reliability,
lowering costs through simplified operations.
- Advanced video processing.
Offering cable service providers maximum flexibility in their
service growth trajectory and capacity to enable advanced media
processing in combination dense QAM deployments for services such
as advanced advertising, and personalized services such as IPTV and
timeshift TV.
- High performance and
reliability. Carrier-class five nines platform will, in the
future, offer full redundancy with no single point of failure,
including full RF and input level redundancy. BigBand also delivers
industry leading performance, including low power consumption per
QAM and the lowest return rates in the industry.
- Agile bandwidth allocation. In
conjunction with BigBand’s CVEx, the MSP QAM hardware is designed
to support dynamic bandwidth agility across the entire RF spectrum
for each of the 40 QAMs. This will provide the frequency and
spectrum agility required to support the expansion of video
services with reduced costs and improved operations since QAM
channels can be placed anywhere in the spectrum.
- Complete solution for managing high
density QAMs. BigBand’s sophisticated VMS platform and network
planning tools help operators efficiently manage the volume of QAMs
required in the network.
BigBand is an industry-leading QAM supplier with more than
820,000 QAMs shipped to over 60 customers worldwide to date. The
company’s edge QAM platforms are designed to provide combined
support for broadcast, SDV, VOD, IP video, modular CMTS, and
DOCSIS® applications, including 3.0-compatible video delivery
service.
The company’s MSP QAM will be on display in booth #1421 at SCTE
Cable-Tec Expo®, October 20-22, 2010 in New Orleans, LA.
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.
CVEx, vIP PASS and other 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 edge QAM platforms and features that we
intend to enable in the future (including full redundancy, software
to enable as many as 40 QAMs per port and the development of
CMAP-compliant solutions). 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 edge QAMs, 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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