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SUWANEE, Ga., April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) today announced that it has opened a testing and interoperability lab in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With several key voice over cable deployments planned for the Argentine market in the coming months, the lab will serve as the center of ARRIS VoIP service and quality assurance in the region to further support ARRIS customers as they launch their triple play packages. The lab will be staffed by ARRIS field support engineers and system integration specialists and will house a complete line of ARRIS CMTS and CPE equipment as well as the ARRIS Universal CPE Test Station (UCTS), third party call servers, gateways and appropriate testing and interoperability equipment necessary to ensure effective field service and support for Argentine cable operators. "We have established this lab to provide local support and service to our MSO customers in Argentina," said Claudio Cerioli, ARRIS Senior Vice President of International Sales. "Delivering primary line voice service is a difficult proposition and one that ARRIS understands very well. It requires the highest standards of reliability and scalability, so it was in our customers' best interests to have trained engineers and dedicated testing facilities in the region to deliver them the world-class service they have come to expect from ARRIS." As deregulation of voice service in Central and South America occurs market to market, ARRIS is at the forefront of numerous planned cable operator voice rollouts and currently powers several VoIP deployments in the region. These include a long-standing relationship with VTR of Chile and the recently- announced launch of VoIP by Mexican MSO Cablemas. Both companies use the ARRIS C4(R) CMTS and Touchstone(R) E-MTAs in their digital voice service. Additionally, ARRIS E-MTAs are currently deployed in numerous Central American markets and the Caribbean. 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/. For more information about ARRIS C4 CMTS visit http://www.arrisi.com/c4. DATASOURCE: ARRIS CONTACT: Alex Swan of ARRIS Media Relations, +1-678-473-8327, or Web site: http://www.arrisi.com/ http://www.arrisi.com/c4

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