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High Availability C4 Chassis to Provide Island Nation with Ultra Fast Internet Service and Primary-Line Voice Service SUWANEE, Ga., July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) today announced that Cablenet Communication Systems Ltd. has deployed a number of C4 CMTS chassis in Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca, three of the major cities of Cyprus. The C4's were purchased from ARRIS Value-Added Reseller (VAR) B.A.S.E. Technologies. Over the past few years, Cablenet Communication Systems, a strategic partner to the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, has offered video services over cable throughout the island. It recently decided to invest in the network infrastructure necessary to enhance that offering and provide triple play service, utilizing the ARRIS C4 CMTS, Touchstone(R) 502B Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapters (E-MTAs) and Touchstone Wireless E-MTA WTM552Bs. The nationwide high-speed Internet service is transported across Cablenet's fiber backbone serving the island's three major cities. Cablenet plans on passing over 60,000 homes this year with another 60,000 homes planned for 2008. The MSO selected ARRIS equipment as part of a turnkey, end-to-end, IP backbone and triple play service solution provided by B.A.S.E. Technologies of Belgium, an ARRIS VAR. "We exhaustively researched the solutions provided us by several vendors and selected the ARRIS solution for its reliability, availability and ability to scale," said Cablenet's Managing Director Nicolas Shiacolas. "Cablenet is proud to deploy the infrastructure necessary to add high-speed data and primary line telephony service to the inhabitants of Cyprus." 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, Chicago and Cork, 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, Web site: http://www.arrisi.com/

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