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By performing sophisticated media processing and supporting digital video transport over any distance in the same platform, BigBand Deep Digital Transport provides dramatic benefits such as equipment savings from headend consolidation and enhanced service reliability through headend redundancy. The BigBand BMR^® (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router) offers a wide range of cost-effective, reliable service delivery options such as Layer 2 to Layer 3 transport using GigE, CWDM or  DWDM interfaces.

• Savings in capital and operational costs from headend consolidation
• Enhanced service reliability achieved through headend redundancy
• Flexible, diverse fiber routing supported for higher network availability
• Multiple networking options such as unicast or multicast IP over GigE, DWDM or CDWM transport support a wide range of environments
• Layers 1–7 processing provides benefits such as program-level redundancy
• Superior de-jittering capabilities enable high quality video even after signals have been transported hundreds of miles
• Sophisticated suite of management tools for seamless control across a network of BigBand platforms
• Carrier-class availability supported with hot- swappable cards and power supplies, passive backplane, removable fan tray and redundant management modules

Headends are consolidated by converting them to hubs since BigBand Deep Digital Transport allows content to be transmitted from remaining headends economically, even over long distances. This enables a service provider to achieve significant operating benefits including reductions in equipment count, oversight, maintenance, power consumption and real-estate.

An operator desiring higher service reliability can configure dual headends so that one facility provides protection against a failure at the other location. BigBand Deep Digital Transport allows network locations to be connected using a variety of topologies, including bidirectional fiber rings for high levels of survivability even in the event of a fiber cut. Interoperable with a broad diversity of infrastructure, the BigBand BMR platform receives feeds in a variety of formats, and features up to 96 ASI or DHEI inputs, 72 ASI or DHEI outputs, 32 GigE outputs, and 64 broadcast QAM outputs in one high density chassis. Small form-factor pluggable connectors for CWDM and DWDM provide added flexibility to fiber optic transport.

The versatile BigBand BMR processes video content at all seven layers of the OSI stack, achieving benefits such as redundancy at the program level. Moreover, the robust platform features hot-swappable I/O cards and power supplies, a passive backplane, and other designs for carrier-class availability.

Sophisticated management software makes it easy to configure and monitor a network of BigBand platforms, and provision content and services. Easy-to use GUIs support features such as drag-and-drop creation of broadcast lineups and provide a wealth of insightful information.

BigBand Deep Digital Transport enables a range of valuable applications to be implemented economically, including digital simulcast,  zoned ad insertion and switched broadcast.

Program-level redundancy achieves the highest levels of service reliability