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BigBand Networks provides the comprehensive functionality needed by a cable operator offering a complete lineup of digital programming. BigBand Digital TV Management speeds delivery of new services and content while fully leveraging embedded network infrastructures, lowering operating expenses and assuring strong returns on investments. At the core of BigBand Networks’ solution is the BMR^® (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router), the recognized benchmark platform for network delivery of video services.

• Comprehensive solution addressing bandwidth constraints and speeding delivery of news services and content
• Media-aware processing of feeds from broad range of sources of digital programs and digitally-encoded analog programs
• Grooming of multiplexes combining a variety of content, including SDTV, HDTV and digital audio, with operator-selectable RateShaping priorities
• Digital ad insertion complying with relevant SCTE standards and providing advanced features such as lucrative targeting to geographic zones and demographic profiles
• Special provisions for HDTV including PSIP table aggregation and custom slate insertion
• Conditional access meeting DVB Common Scrambling and DVB Simulcrypt standards
• Insightful GUI-based management providing wide range of features, including drag-and-drop creation of broadcast multiplexes

Interoperable with a broad range of sources of programming, the BMR processes MPEG, IP and Ethernet packets natively, and Rate-Shaping^® algorithms ensure that channel lineups provide the highest quality video while consuming the least bandwidth.

BigBand Digital TV Management supports the creation of multiplexes combining SDTV, HDTV, digital audio and other types of content. The solution contains special provisions for HDTV such as the ability to cope with dynamic programming changes and aggregation of program related data, and is ideally suited for this application.

Digital ad splicing is implemented on the BMR, allowing RateShaping to be applied to multiplexes that combine programs and advertisements, for ads delivered with superior quality and bandwidth efficiencies. In addition to complying with SCTE standards, special features are provided, such as the ability to simultaneously splice different ads into multiple copies of the same program for lucrative targeting of geographic zones and demographic profiles.

Privacy and restricted access are supported in accordance with DVB Common Scrambling and DVB Simulcrypt standards for conditional access, ensuring interoperability with all headend environments, digital set-top boxes and emerging cable-ready digital TVs.

BigBand BMR simplifies headend operations and saves space