BigBand Networks announces the company’s completion of a number of key integrations that advance the delivery and availability of IP video, securely and to multiple devices. The company’s IP delivery products, including its recently announced vIP PASS, have been integrated with leading chipset, cable modem, and digital rights management technology providers. These integrations are designed to provide an end-to-end vIP PASS solution for delivery of IPTV that capitalizes on existing infrastructure to deliver video services to a broad range of customer devices and screens. BigBand works closely with diverse ecosystem and network partners, leveraging its experience in providing digital video networking and advertising solutions, to ease the transition from standard to high definition television.

The vIP PASS end-to-end solution is the result of integrations with leading DRM systems, off the shelf DOCSIS 3.0 compatible cable modems and chipsets that are designed to create an open, secure and reliable IP video delivery system. On the DRM front, vIP PASS has been integrated with Widevine’s multiplatform, multiformat DRM and Video Optimization solutions for secure, high quality delivery of premium content. On the consumer premise equipment side, vIP PASS has been integrated with numerous DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems and gateway technologies including NETGEAR, Mplus Technology Co., Hitron Technologies, SerComm, and DOCSIS 3.0 chipsets from Texas Instruments and other major chipset manufacturers.

vIP PASS is compatible with and does not modify any DOCSIS 3.0 modem software. With the integration of vIP PASS with major DOCSIS 3.0 chipsets, most DOCSIS 3.0 modems can now support vIP PASS. An end-to-end solution, vIP PASS is part of BigBand’s recently announced Converged Video Exchange (CVEx™), an intelligent video control plane that provides a unified means to deliver and manage video services across networks and devices, enabling a migration path to tomorrow’s IP network.

BigBand’s vIP PASS solution is designed to reduce the network complexity in delivering IP video services by leveraging the same cable network architecture, software systems and network-based tools that are used to deliver and manage all of today’s proven cable video services. vIP PASS supports the delivery of IP video services to a wide variety of IP-enabled consumer electronics devices. By delivering IP video in DOCSIS format (the industry's signaling standard), vIP PASS gives service providers the ability to deliver video streams to IP devices without the need to transit through a CMTS. This is designed to offer a more cost-efficient means to deploy IPTV today, whether through managed services or over the top. vIP PASS is further enhanced by BigBand’s market-leading and field proven edge QAM platforms, video control plane technology, video QoS, and performance and viewership tools that give operators visibility into the performance and viewing statistics of their video content.