REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- BigBand Networks, Inc., a leading provider of broadband multimedia infrastructure for video, voice and data, today announced that it was named co-winner of an Emmy award with Time Warner Cable and several other companies as part of the National Television Academy's Technology and Engineering Awards. BigBand Networks, Time Warner and their co-winners received the award for technology contributions to Time Warner Cable's 'Start Over' digital television feature in the category of "Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of On-Demand Technology Over Private Networks."

Start Over is designed to allow Time Warner Cable customers to jump to the beginning of a program in progress without any pre-planning or in-home recording devices. The Time Warner Cable service leverages network-based, time-shifting functionality enabled by the BigBand Broadband Multimedia- Service Router (BMR(R)) and other technologies to extend "on-demand" capability to live programming.

BigBand Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: BBND)