AT&T Atlanta system to strike up BigBand. (Spotlight: Managed Bandwidth).(AT&T Broadband Atlanta's division and BigBand Networks)

Multichannel News, November, 2002 by Brown, Karen

Digital broadcast delivery startup BigBand Networks is cued to enter AT&T Broadband's Atlanta division, deploying its digital grooming and Gigabit Ethernet-powered transport and redundancy systems there. While the Redwood City, Calif.-based company has had luck in attracting customers such as Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications Inc.

to its DTV-grooming product, AT&T Broadband becomes the first cable operator to announce it will use BigBand's Gigabit Ethernet transport scheme for video-on-demand content. BigBand has yet-to-be-disclosed deployments with other MSOs, said vice president of corporate development Seth Kenvin. The vendor's transport redundancy system allows the MSO to cut transport costs by send video files between core headends...

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