Broadbus Earns Highest Score for On-Demand Video in Broadband Gear Report's 2006 Diamond Technology Reviews

Broadbus Earns Highest Score for On-Demand Video in Broadband Gear Report's 2006 Diamond Technology Reviews

Judging team comprised of top North American cable operators including Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable, Comcast and Bright House Networks

BOXBOROUGH, Mass., June 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadbus Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of technology solutions for Television on Demand (TOD(R)), today announced that Broadband Gear Report (BGR), the cable and broadband telecom industry's leading product and deployment news e-service, has awarded the Broadbus B-1(TM) Video Server a 4.5 out of 5 rating in its 2006 Diamond Technology Reviews, the highest score earned in any category. The Diamond Technology Reviews are an annual product rating process where an elite group of broadband industry engineering professionals organized by the Broadband Gear Report editorial team analyze product applications submitted by the broadband industry's vendor community.

"The Broadbus B-1 Video Server ranks among the few and elite products that received a 4.5 Diamond score (out of 5) from our distinguished panel of engineering executive judges," said Laura Hamilton, editor-in-chief at Broadband Gear Report. "Its redundancy and hot-swappable modules impressed our judges, and they believed that the B-1 truly meets the needs to grow cable's on-demand services."

Products in the Diamond Technology Reviews Program were entered in six categories: VoIP Solutions; On-Demand and High-Definition Video; The Digital Home; Network Management and OSS; Advanced Networking Solutions; and Outside Plant.

Diamond Review panel judges included Wayne Hall, vice president of engineering for Comcast; Tom Gorman, vice president of operations engineering for Charter; Robert Schaeffer, Founder and senior technologist of Technology Planners; Paul Stephens, vice president of technical operations, Greensboro Division, for Time Warner Cable; and Gene White, vice president of Engineering for Bright House Networks.

"Broadbus is honored that the B-1 Video Server received such a high score from this respected group of judges," said Tom Kennedy, senior director of marketing for Broadbus. "This feedback is consistent with what we've been hearing from customers, and is a testament to the Broadbus team's hard work and dedication to developing innovative products that best meet market needs."

Full scores and review results will be published in Broadband Gear Report's At-the Show Product News on June 21st at the SCTE Cable-Tec EXPO in Denver, CO. Products were rated on a scale of 0-5, with a 5-Diamond rating being a "perfect" score. Broadbus was among those receiving the highest composite score of 4.5, and the highest score of any video server vendor.

The Broadbus B-1 Video Server is the only 100% solid-state, carrier-class solution for the delivery of on-demand video services. The platform's compact, switch-based architecture completely eliminates the use of mechanical hard drives for video streaming and ingest, instead leveraging the intelligent management of massive amounts of random-access memory. The result is unparalleled performance, reliability, scalability for video on-demand and advanced on-demand services at less than one-tenth the footprint and one-eighth the power requirements of traditional systems.

About Broadbus

Broadbus develops fully scalable, next-generation video on-demand solutions designed to solve streaming scale, space, power consumption and live ingest issues for communications service providers deploying advanced video services such as VOD, IPTV, Time-Shifted TV, Network-Based DVRs (nDVR), On-Demand Ad Insertion and ultimately, full-scale Television On-Demand (TOD). Broadbus offers a migration path to the emerging TOD environment, while fully exploiting existing upgraded broadband networks. The company's revolutionary solid-state server architecture, based on the intelligent configuration and management of massive amounts of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), eliminates the use of mechanical hard drives for video streaming and ingest. The result is unparalleled performance, reliability and scalability for VOD and advanced on-demand services and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership.

Broadbus was selected by Red Herring for inclusion into its annual list of Top 100 Private Companies, named for the second consecutive year to CED Magazine's Broadband 50, awarded Product of the Year by the Massachusetts Network Communication Council and listed as a finalist for Best Innovation in two categories for the first annual On-Demandies(TM) awards hosted by Digital Hollywood. For more information, please visit www.broadbus.com.

About Broadband Gear Report

Broadband Gear Report is a Hermes Media & Research publication. BGR is a bi-weekly product alert service written with the goal of helping the broadband engineering manager learn about the hardware, software, and services available to help them improve the performance and profitability of their local, regional or nationwide systems. Launched in June 2004, BGR has grown to over 6,000 active subscribers internationally, with over 40 supporting vendors. You can see and learn more by visiting www.broadbandgear.net.

About Hermes Media & Research

Tim Hermes is an 11-year cable industry publishing veteran. As Publisher of Communications Technology magazine from 1998 - 2004, he launched over a dozen publications, awards and events in the broadband communications sector, including: The Broadband Leaders Retreat, CT's PIPELINE, CT's Readers Choice Awards, CT's Operator of the Year, CT's WebEvents, and created a custom internal newsletter for a leading MSO.

Press Contacts: Jim Owens Brian Baumley
Broadbus Cohn & Wolfe
(978) 266-7264 (212) 798-9813
jowens@broadbus.combrian_baumley@cohnwolfe.com

Source: Broadbus Technologies, Inc.

CONTACT: Jim Owens, Broadbus, +1-978-266-7264, jowens@broadbus.com;
Brian Baumley, Cohn & Wolfe, +1-212-798-9813, brian_baumley@cohnwolfe.com

Web site: http://www.broadbus.com/
http://www.broadbandgear.net/

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