BigBand Closes CUDA Acquisition, Raises $25 Million

BigBand Networks closed its acquisition of the IP Cable Business Unit of ADC Telecommunications, including the Cuda and FastFlow product lines. The company also announced that it has completed a $25 million funding round. The financing brings the total amount of venture capital raised by BigBand Networks to more than $100 million. Investors included Charles River Ventures, Evergreen Investments, Meritech Capital Partners, Pilot House Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Time Warner Ventures.

With closure of the acquisition, BigBand’s product portfolio now includes:

• the BMR (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router), a high capacity platform with support for services, including: digital broadcast grooming for control of SDTV and HDTV programming with RateShaping to maintain video quality at maximum bandwidth efficiency; standards-based splicing of local advertising and programming with precise geographic targeting; Gigabit Ethernet transport of high quality video including enhanced service reliability from redundant facilities; dense edge modulation of VOD and broadcast programming; and switched broadcast to dynamically provision live programming in response to real-time subscriber demand
• the Cuda CMTS for DOCSIS-based video, voice and data services

the BME (Broadband Multimedia-Service Edge), a high-density platform that terminates local and distant transport links by optical or electronic Gigabit Ethernet, and directs the right on-demand and broadcast programming towards the right subscribers with robust QAM modulation and RF upconversion.

• the BRE (Broadband Real-Time Encoder), which provides digital encoding of analog programming
• the BigBand Management Server Suite, software to control implementation, scaling and ongoing management of BigBand Networks services.
• the FastFlow Broadband Provisioning Manager, which automates configuration and activation of DOCSIS / EURDOCSIS cable modems, PacketCable / EURPacketCable multimedia terminal adapters, and CableHome residential gateways for IP video, voice and data services.

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• BigBand Networks is based in Redwood City, California.