BigBand, a provider of multimedia routers, plans $120M IPO

BigBand Networks, the Redwood City provider of broadband multimedia service routers, is planning a $120 million IPO on the Nasdaq, according to TheMarker newspaper in Israel and cited this morning by PE Week Wire (link apparently not working).

PE Week summarized: “The company had been entertaining acquisition offers earlier this year, and has raised around $100 million in VC funding from firms like Meritech Capital Partners, AOL Time Warner Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Evergreen Investments, Pilot House Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.”

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