ARRS Arris International Plc - Ordinary Shares

SUWANEE, Ga., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) today announced that its Touchstone TM502B Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter (E-MTA) has been awarded Euro-DOCSIS 2.0 certification by the European Certification Board in its European Certification Wave 20. "We are extremely pleased to have earned this distinction as it further solidifies the ARRIS worldwide leadership position in the E-MTA marketplace," said Ron Miller, Senior Director, CPE Product Management, ARRIS. "The ARRIS Touchstone line of E-MTAs has achieved number one market share throughout 2005 while the cable industry has achieved significant Voice over IP deployments. Now, with Euro-DOCSIS 2.0 certification of the next generation Touchstone TM502B E-MTA, our European customers are offered the latest technology at the highest value available today." ARRIS Touchstone E-MTAs have been installed in well over one million customer homes by cable operators worldwide, including the five largest Multiple System Operators (MSOs). About the ARRIS Touchstone TM502B The Touchstone TM502 series combines the latest industry silicon technology to delivery the greatest value (feature rich - cost effective) E-MTA products available on the market today. The TM502 design features an updated look and feel in a smaller footprint. The power supply has been integrated into the TM502B to simplify installations by removing the traditional cumbersome external AC/DC converter. The same field proven line card features as designed in the very successful TM402B are also built into all TM502B including 5 Ringer Equivalence Number (REN) per line and the ability to increase the loop current to overcome troublesome customer premises equipment (CPE) clients and poor in-house wiring. About ARRIS ARRIS provides broadband local access networks with innovative optical transport, high-speed data and telephony systems for the delivery of voice, video and data to the home and business. ARRIS complete solutions enhance the reliability and value of converged services from the network to the subscriber. Headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, ARRIS has design, engineering, manufacturing, distribution, service and sales office locations throughout the world. Information about ARRIS products and services can be found at http://www.arrisi.com/. DATASOURCE: ARRIS CONTACT: Alex Swan, Media Relations of ARRIS, +1-678-473-8327, or Web site: http://www.arrisi.com/

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