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C-COR Unlocks Bandwidth With New Integrated Solution; Bandwidth QoS Product Mitigates Peer-to-Peer Traffic Jams

Posted on: Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 09:00 CDT

C-COR Incorporated (Nasdaq:CCBL) today announced its Bandwidth Quality of Service (QoS) Network Appliance solution aimed at unleashing network service providers' bandwidth capabilities. The bandwidth optimization and congestion control solution combines the ability to pinpoint and prioritize bandwidth power users on the DOCSIS(R) network with dynamic on demand bandwidth management. C-COR is the global provider of transport solutions, network intelligence, on demand, and operations management for IP networks.

The C-COR Bandwidth QoS Network Appliance marries the feature sets of C-COR's CableEdge(R) and Policy Service Manager (PSM(TM)) to give operators a way to ensure fair-share of high-speed data bandwidth among subscribers despite rapid rises in traffic levels and network congestion. The solution levels the distribution of bandwidth demands on the network and guarantees that bandwidth is distributed fairly across broadband subscribers. At the onset of rapid rises in traffic levels and network congestion, the application sends an alert to the Policy Service Manager to implement a fairness policy, optimizing network performance to avoid slowdowns to high-speed data users and prioritizing applications such as VoIP.

"Today, with 80 percent of bandwidth being consumed by 10 percent of broadband subscribers and with broadband intensive applications poised to skyrocket, we've come to a point where it is no longer enough to simply add raw bandwidth," said Michael Pohl, president, Global Strategies Group, C-COR. "Bandwidth QoS expands network capacity and helps operators achieve higher network utilization without congestion or even touching the majority of their network."

More than 5,000 MSO employees rely on the C-COR CableEdge(R) Assurance software to manage 10 million DOCSIS devices throughout 12 countries. C-COR's Policy Service Manager provides dynamic network capacity for multimedia applications to ensure plentiful bandwidth for value-added applications and provides application management and service level control. The Bandwidth QoS solution combines these capabilities to bring a new level of intelligence to managing bandwidth that:

-- Finds and manages power users;

-- Prioritizes congested channels by number of subscribers affected and severity of slowdowns;

-- Selects the best downstream and upstream modulation to support the most subs to ensure quality voice services;

-- Maintains exact measures of congestion and network availability on a per modem, node/port, hub and system basis;

-- Mitigates slowdowns at the onset of congestion by ensuring fair-share usage of high-speed data bandwidth and prioritizes VoIP traffic;

-- Increases capacity to support more subscribers on the same plant and expands high-speed data service tiers; and

-- Reduces per subscriber access and transport costs.

About C-COR

C-COR offers world-class, market-focused integrated solutions for cable operators and other service providers that put subscribers in personal control of their entertainment and communication needs. C-COR's interoperable software and hardware help network operators to provide reliable voice, video, and data today, while expediting their migration to an all-IP intelligent network. The Company's solutions include C-COR Broadband Access technology, C-COR On Demand for VOD and advertising, C-COR OSS for workforce management, service assurance, and subscriber fulfillment, and C-COR Network Services for a variety of outsourced field services that help keep networks operating at peak performance. C-COR's common stock is listed on the NASDAQ National Market (Symbol:CCBL) and is a component of the Russell 2000 Stock Index. For additional information regarding C-COR, visit www.c-cor.com.

Some of the information presented in this announcement constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements represent the Company's judgment regarding future events, and are based on currently available information. Although the Company believes it has a reasonable basis for these forward-looking statements, the Company cannot guarantee their accuracy and actual results may differ materially from those the Company anticipated due to a number of known and unknown uncertainties. Factors which could cause actual results to differ from expectations include, among others, capital spending patterns of the communications industry, changes in regard to significant customers, the demand for network integrity, the trend toward more fiber in the network, the Company's ability to develop new and enhanced products, the Company's ability to provide complete network solutions, continued industry consolidation, the development of competing technology, the global demand for the Company's products and services, the Company's ability to implement its restructuring and cost reduction measures, and the Company's ability to complete and integrate acquisitions and achieve its strategic objectives. For additional information concerning these and other important factors that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from expectations and underlying assumptions, please refer to the reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Source: Business Wire

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