ARRIS Announces General Availability of Touchstone(R) Multiline E-MTAs
June 19 2006 - 2:41PM
PR Newswire (US)
Touchstone Telephony Modems TM508A and TM512A Designed to Serve
Small Business and Multiple Dwelling Unit (MDU) Markets SUWANEE,
Ga., June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) today
announced the general availability of two new additions to the
industry leading Touchstone family of CPE products: the 8 line
Touchstone TM508A and the 12 line Touchstone TM512A. These two new
Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter (E-MTA) products allow
operators to efficiently and economically address the small
business and Multiple Dwelling Unit market segments with an
integrated voice and high-speed data service offering. In addition
to 8 or 12 primary-line, toll-quality voice lines, these Multiline
E-MTAs include a 100BaseT Ethernet interface, all powered by a high
performance DOCSIS(R) 2.0 modem and highly scalable DSP
architecture. Building on the highly successful Touchstone
TM402/502 residential E-MTA products, the Touchstone TM508A and
TM512A include advanced features such as programmable "Boost" loop
current, provisionable ringing wave forms, loop voltage policy
settings and auto-adjusting Caller ID signal levels. The units are
packaged in a compact 1RU enclosure and support an extended
temperature range for utility closet installations. In conjunction
with a Local Power Supply Unit, 16 hours of service is provided
following a commercial power failure. The Multiline Touchstone
E-MTAs support PacketCable(TM) (NCS) call signaling with support
for SIP in future releases. The TM512A has been successfully
interoperated with leading Call Management Servers, including the
BroadSoft BroadWorks VoIP application platform, CedarPoint Safari
C3, Cisco(R) BTS 10200 Softswitch, and Siemens(R) SURPASS(R) hiQ
8000. One early customer of the Touchstone TM508A and TM512A is GCI
Communication Corp. of Alaska. "We were very impressed with the
Multiline E- MTAs from ARRIS," said Jimmy Sipes, VP Network
Services of GCI. "They are making it possible for us to enter the
MDU/small business services marketplace with an economical and
extremely efficient package." "We are excited to offer these new
high density products to our MSO customers worldwide," said Bruce
McClelland, VP & CM of ARRIS CPE. "The commercial services and
multiple dwelling unit markets represent a significant amount of
Greenfield revenue for MSOs and these new E-MTAs have been designed
in close collaboration with lead customers to provide a highly
optimized solution." About ARRIS ARRIS provides broadband local
access networks with innovative video, 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, 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 of ARRIS Media Relations, +1-678-473-8327, or Web site:
http://www.arrisi.com/
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