BigBand Networks, Inc. develops, markets, and sells network-based platforms that enable cable operators and telephone companies to offer video, voice, and data services across coaxial, fiber, and copper networks. Its product applications enable service providers to deliver high-quality video, voice, and data services, as well as offer video advertising. The company’s product applications include Digital Simulcast, which enables service providers to create a digital version of analog inputs and deliver analog and digital video streams to subscribers; TelcoTV, used to provide high-quality viewing experience; Switched Broadcast, which enables service providers to transmit video channels to subscribers; and High-Speed Data and Voice-over-IP, which enables cable operators to offer real-time services, such as VoIP and streaming video content over the Internet. Its primary hardware and management software platforms include Broadband Multimedia-Service Router, used for real-time processing and switching of video; Broadband Multimedia-Service Edge, used to communicate directly with subscriber set-top boxes and cable modems; and BigBand FastFlow Broadband Provisioning Manager, a network-based software suite for providing high-speed data and voice services to cable modems. It has customers in cable, telecommunications, satellite, and terrestrial broadcasting worldwide. The company offers its products and services in the United States through its direct sales force, as well as through a combination of direct sales, distributors, and independent resellers internationally. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with additional offices in Westborough, Massachusetts; Tel Aviv, Israel; Slough, England; Dusseldorf and Rosenheim, Germany; Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing, the People’s Republic of China; Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan; and Merignac, France.