ARRS Arris International Plc - Ordinary Shares

SUWANEE, Ga., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) today announced that WOW! Internet, Cable and Phone has selected the award-winning ARRIS C4 CMTS to provide primary-line voice and High Speed Data service to subscribers in its regional systems in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. WOW! is also an ARRIS Touchstone(R) Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter (E-MTA) customer and has been using Touchstone E-MTAs to provide voice service since it began offering Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). It selected the ARRIS C4 CMTS platform for a number of reasons, including its flexible management of upstream and downstream carriers and industry-leading density, reliability and availability. "Using multiple upstream and downstream carriers in a single service group allows us to increase bandwidth without significant wiring changes, therefore making the ARRIS C4 CMTS the right choice for some of our hubs," said Gary Nilsen, WOW! Vice President of Engineering. "Additionally, the C4's load balancing ability to manage the end-user's quality of experience is critical as we continue to add ways to provide the best possible triple play broadband service available." "The ARRIS C4 CMTS is extremely flexible in its architecture to offer these types of capabilities to our customers," noted ARRIS VP and GM, Network Technologies Dan Hickey. "Being able to provide features that ensure the quality of WOW!'s end-users' experience is a key component to help drive their business. We are excited to have WOW! as a C4 customer and look forward to working with them." For more information about the ARRIS C4 CMTS visit http://www.arrisi.com/get/c4. About ARRIS ARRIS provides broadband local access networks with best-in-class video, high-speed data, mobile and fixed-line telephony systems for the delivery of voice, video and data to their residential and small-to-medium sized business customers. The Company also provides a complete set of tools and cable system infrastructure maintenance and upgrade products. ARRIS complete solutions enhance the reliability and value of converged services from the network to the end-user. Additionally, ARRIS, headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, has R&D centers in Atlanta, Chicago, Cork, Ireland and Shenzhen, China, and operates support and sales offices throughout the world. Information about ARRIS products and services can be found at http://www.arrisi.com/. About WOW! WOW! Internet, Cable and Phone is one of the nation's leading providers of high-speed Internet, cable television and telephone services serving systems in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. Starting out with cable TV, over the years WOW! has added services that include digital cable, HDTV, DVRs, a choice of high-speed Internet speeds, and unlimited local and long distance phone service. WOW! is privately owned by Avista Capital Partners and has its Corporate offices in Englewood, CO. DATASOURCE: ARRIS CONTACT: Alex Swan of ARRIS Media Relations, +1-678-473-8327, Web site: http://www.arrisi.com/get/c4 http://www.arrisi.com/

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