Gehua Cable Chooses BigBand Neworks to Support Introduction of Interactive HDTV and Broadband Internet Service

The BigBand BEQ® becomes preferred QAM platform of China’s Gehua Cable

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced that Beijing Gehua Cable TV Network (“Gehua Cable” SH: 600037) has selected BigBand’s industry-leading broadband Edge QAM BEQ platform to deliver its new interactive HDTV and broadband internet service.

“We are delighted that Gehua Cable has expanded our relationship and selected the BigBand BEQ platform”

Gehua Cable operates the broadcasting and cable TV network as well as reception and transmission of broadcasting and cable TV programs within the Beijing municipal area. The large-scale cable network covers all 18 districts and transmits more than 100 channels to 3.2 million people.

“We are delighted that Gehua Cable has expanded our relationship and selected the BigBand BEQ platform,” said David W. Heard, chief operating officer of BigBand Networks. “BigBand continues to lead the market in QAMs and now we’re bringing this industry-leading platform to China to support new services like interactive HDTV. Our BEQ platform’s superior RF performance and reliability enable our customers to deliver the highest quality for today’s services and tomorrow’s advanced applications at a significantly reduced operational cost.”

With more than 700,000 QAMs shipped to more than 60 service providers worldwide over the life of its edge QAM platforms, BigBand is an industry leading QAM provider. The BEQ family of edge QAM platforms is designed to provide combined support for broadcast, switched digital video, video on demand, IP video, Modular CMTS, and DOCSIS® applications, including 3.0-compatible video delivery service with less energy use. The BEQ’s resilient architecture is designed for superior performance and scalability, while enhancing the delivery of digital television services at a low total cost of ownership.

In addition to the BEQ, the BigBand Broadband Multimedia-Service Router (BMR®) was adopted by Gehua Cable. In October of 2008, Gehua Cable provided coverage of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Games using BigBand’s BMR. BigBand’s BMR platform continues to be used today in Gehua’s digital TV network headend system to reliably deliver video content to Beijing’s residents.

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 across a wide range of services, including digital TV, high definition TV, advanced advertising, video-on-demand and interactive TV. BigBand Networks' customers include more than 200 service providers—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 [phone], email [e-mail] or visit www.bigbandnet.com.

BEQ, BMR 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 Gehua Cable from the use of the BigBand’s BEQ and BMR. 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 products and/or solutions, 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.