BigBand Networks

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BigBand Networks
Type Public (NASDAQ: BBND)
Founded 1999, public 2007
Headquarters Redwood City, California California, USA
Key people Amir Bassan-Eskenazi, CEO, President & Co-Founder
Ran Oz CTO & Co-Founder
Industry Digital Video
CMTS
Revenue $176.62 million USD FY 2006 [1]
Net income $8.88 million USD FY 2006[1]
Employees 620 (July 2007)
Website www.bigbandnet.com

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.

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[edit] Locations

BigBand has 2 major development centers. The main Video products development center is located in Tel Aviv, Israel with roughly 200 people. The main Data and Voice products development center is located in Westborough, Massachusetts with roughly 175 people [2]. A small video development group resides in the Redwood City headquarters and a fourth research and development office was recently open in Shenzhen, China[3].

[edit] Products and Technologies

The company sells video, voice and data solutions directly to major cable Multi-System Operators MSOs. Amongst the company's biggest MSO clients are Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Cox. In recent years the company expanded the video offering to Telcos, with Verizon becoming their biggest customer in 2006. BigBand products include a digital video processing platform called BMR and a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) called Cuda. The video platform enables services such as Switched Video [4], Digital Cable, Video on demand and IPTV offered on a variety of transport networks such as QAM cable, DSL and Verizon FiOS.

[edit] Recent Affairs

BigBand went public in March 2007[5]. The offering was underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Jeffries & Company, Cowen & Company and ThinkEquity[6].

BigBand is currently suing a firm started by ex-employees. The firm, called Imagine Communications, is allegedly infringing on 3 of BigBand's patents covering video processing and bandwidth management techniques[7].

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b BBND 1Q07 Quarterly Earnings Report. GOOG. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
  2. ^ SEC filing S-1/A, 2007-01-26, <http://sec.edgar-online.com/2007/01/26/0001193125-07-014347/Section21.asp> 
  3. ^ "BigBand Networks Expands Presence in China", Business Wire, 2007-03-30. 
  4. ^ Cablevision Deploys BigBand's Switched Video. Converge Network Digest (2007-07-24).
  5. ^ Alan Breznick. "BigBand IPO: Boing!", Cable Digital News, 2007-03-15. 
  6. ^ BigBand FAQ. BBND.
  7. ^ Todd Spangler. "BigBand Sues Firm Started by Ex-Employees", Multichannel News, 2007-06-05. 

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