BigBand Earns High Honors in BGR’s 2010 Diamond Technology Reviews

BigBand’s vIP PASS™ awarded four diamond rating by panel of leading cable operator judges

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced that its IP video delivery solution, vIP PASS™, has received a four diamond rating in Broadband Gear Report’s (BGR’s) 2010 Diamond Technology Reviews.

“The judges were impressed with the vIP PASS solution because of its ability to utilize the baseline infrastructure that MSOs already have today to deliver on the next wave of cable services,” said Steve Johnson, Diamond Reviews Manager, Broadband Gear Report. “More than ever before, cable operators need solutions that allow them to build on what they already have in place and deploy new services quickly. The panel felt that BigBand’s unique IP video solution delivers on both accounts.”

BGR’s Diamond Technology Reviews recognize the cable industry’s most advanced products and solutions and are judged by independent panelists based on a number of rigorous criteria. Products and solutions entered in this year’s Diamond Technology Reviews were judged by an accomplished panel of industry and engineering experts at leading cable operators including: Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications, Suddenlink, Sunflower Broadband, Time Warner Cable and the National Cable Television Cooperative.

“BigBand is proud to have received a top ranking in BGR’s Diamond Technology Reviews program,” said Ran Oz, Executive Vice President, CTO and Co-Founder of BigBand Networks. “This recognition provides further industry confirmation of the strength of BigBand’s vIP PASS, and the company’s leadership in the development of solutions that cost-effectively extend high quality managed cable services to a growing number of connected devices in the home.”

BigBand’s vIP PASS solution is a robust video IP delivery solution that leverages the same cable network architecture, software systems and network-based tools that are used to deliver and manage all of today’s proven cable video services. vIP PASS supports the delivery of IP video services to a wide variety of IP-enabled consumer electronics devices. By ‘wrapping’ IP video in DOCSIS®, the industry's signaling standard, vIP PASS enables service providers to deliver video streams to IP devices without the need to transit through a CMTS. vIP PASS is designed to offer a more cost-efficient means to deploy IPTV today, whether through managed services or over the top.

BigBand’s comprehensive suite of solutions, including vIP PASS, will be on display in booth #1421 at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo®, October 20-22, 2010 in New Orleans, LA.

For more information about Broadband Gear Report or the 2010 BGR Diamond Technology Reviews program, please visit www.broadbandgear.net.

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 Broadband Gear Report

Broadband Gear Report was launched in 2004 by Hermes Media & Research and has become the leading online product and deployment alert service for broadband engineering professionals. BGR is a twice-monthly emailed newsletter and website sent to over 8,000 cable broadband engineering managers in the Tier 1, Tier 2 and independent operators in the North America and Europe. The Diamond Technology Reviews was launched in 2005 to answer the need for an unbiased technology review program within the broadband community. For additional information about the company, visit www.broadbandgear.net.

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. 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, 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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