Oct. 21, 2009 (Business Wire) -- BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBND), a leader in digital video networking, today announced that its Converged Video Exchange (CVEx ™) platform has been named a Light Reading Top Pick in the video infrastructure category for the Americas region. The editors of Light Reading, the leading integrated media company serving the worldwide communications industry, made its top picks of communications products and services from all over the world that could potentially shake up the industry.

CVEx is designed to be the industry's first intelligent software control plane that helps service providers migrate to a converged network for reliable and high quality video delivery. CVEx will help unify the way that service providers deliver and manage linear and non-linear video services across the network edge, to traditional MPEG set-top boxes and next generation IP devices.

"Congratulations to all the companies and individuals who were selected as this year's Top Picks," said Phil Harvey, Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief. "The Top Picks were chosen by Light Reading's editors because they embody the trends that we feel are really pushing this industry forward."

For all the areas except Services, Light Reading's editors chose one Top Pick per category from each of three regions: the Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia/Pacific. To see the final selections, visit the Top Picks page on Light Reading at: http://www.lightreading.com/top-picks.

About BigBand Networks

BigBand Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBND) provides broadband service providers with innovative network solutions designed to make it easier to move, manage and monetize video. These solutions are based on BigBand's video-networking platforms that are built to enable efficient and reliable delivery across a wide range of services, including digital TV, high definition TV, advanced advertising, video-on-demand and interactive TV. BigBand Networks' customers include more than 200 service providers -- including seven of the ten largest service providers in the U.S. -- and leading cable and telco service providers in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America. BigBand Networks is based in Redwood City, Calif., with offices worldwide. For additional information about the company, please call +1.650.995.5000, email info@bigbandnet.com or visit www.bigbandnet.com.