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SUWANEE, Ga., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) today announced that Time Warner Cable has signed a two-year Purchase Agreement for the ARRIS C4 and C3 CMTS products. The nation's second-largest Multiple System Operator (MSO) has already deployed the 1RU-size ARRIS C3 CMTS in several of its systems and, in anticipation of this purchase agreement, placed its first C4 CMTS orders last week. "We are pleased to announce this purchase agreement with ARRIS," said Time Warner Cable's Chief Technology Officer Mike LaJoie. "We require all our vendors to meet very high standards for product performance, reliability and support. The ARRIS team proved its ability to meet these standards and we are pleased their CMTS products will be deployed in the Time Warner Cable network delivering advanced telecommunications services to our subscribers." "We are very honored to have won the confidence of Time Warner Cable in our CMTS product line," said ARRIS Chairman and CEO Bob Stanzione. "In this increasingly competitive telecommunications landscape, we look forward to a long-term and mutually beneficial relationship in helping Time Warner roll out higher cable modem speeds and primary-line VoIP service to its customers." Time Warner Cable has over 5.4 million high-speed data subscribers and over 1.6 million digital phone customers. ARRIS is also one of Time Warner Cable's major suppliers of VoIP Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapters (E-MTA). About the ARRIS C4 CMTS The ARRIS C4 Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) is the industry leader in density, scalability and high availability. It is PacketCable(TM) 1.1, DOCSIS(R) 2.0 and Euro-DOCSIS 2.0 qualified and can support up to 52,000 cable modems or 32,000 voice lines per chassis in one seven foot standard rack. The C4 CMTS FlexPath(TM) software, in conjunction with the Touchstone(R) WBM650 Wideband Modem, allows packet bonding of up to four DOCSIS downstream and upstream channels that can routinely deliver data speeds in excess of 140 Mbps to the end user. Additionally, the C4 CMTS provides operators with an elegant and cost-effective migration to the emerging M-CMTS and DOCSIS 3.0 standards. About ARRIS ARRIS provides broadband local access networks with innovative, best-in- class 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 R&D centers in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL and Cork, Ireland and support and sales offices 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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