ORLANDO, Fla. -- BigBand Networks, Inc., a leading provider of broadband multimedia platforms for broadcast television and on-demand services, today announced that Wide Open West, one of the twenty largest U.S. cable operators, has deployed multiple solutions for networked digital broadcast services on the BigBand BMR® (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router). Wide Open West is using BigBand Grooming and BigBand HDTV to control standard-definition and high-definition programming, with transport between facilities in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio based on integration of BigBand Transport Gateway with existing transport facilities.
“The BigBand BMR scales back our costs while we launch HDTV and expand digital broadcasting,” said Michael Brody, chief technology officer, Wide Open West. “BigBand Networks’ networked platform approach to digital video services maximizes resource efficiency and enables open expansion of services and infrastructure solutions.”
BigBand Networks Inc.