Irish Minister for Labour Affairs Announces Strategic R&D Investment for ARRIS in Cork
September 03 2008 - 3:16PM
PR Newswire (US)
SUWANEE, Ga., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Irish Minister
for Labour Affairs, Billy Kelleher TD, today announced that ARRIS
Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARRS) of the U.S., which develops and
manufactures voice, video, and high-speed data products for the
global cable TV industry, is to undertake a strategic Research and
Development investment for high value video products for the cable
industry at its Irish operations in Cork. The euro 4.5 million
investment, supported by IDA Ireland, will strengthen the R&D
effort in Cork by adding new skills and technologies that will
significantly advance the potential for technical innovation within
the Company's Irish operations. Minister Kelleher said, "This is
excellent news as the investment is leading-edge R&D and will
further secure the existing ARRIS operations and employment at the
Cork site. It again demonstrates the ability of Irish based R&D
operations to contribute cutting-edge and highly complex solutions
as part of a parent company's strategic future development plans.
This project will represent a major shift for ARRIS into higher
value video products for the cable industry, which is viewed as a
key area for growth in the coming years. The decision to locate
such a strategic investment at the Cork site was influenced by its
success to date, for which the Cork management and workforce are to
be congratulated." ARRIS will use the investment to improve its
existing D5(TM) Universal EdgeQAM (UEQ) along with the R&D
required to increase its large volume manufacturing capability and
quality to the scale and stringent levels demanded by ARRIS and its
customers. Universal EdgeQAMs are now being introduced into cable
networks around the world to provide the increased capacity, needed
especially for unicast video services. More and more Video on
Demand and Switched multicast and unicast services are being
deployed and the ARRIS D5 UEQ supports all these services,
including the DOCSIS 3.0 data services standard for delivering 100
Mbp/s+ services currently being deployed by a growing number of
cable networks. ARRIS Communications Ireland Ltd., located at the
Cork Airport Business Park, employs 52 people doing leading-edge
R&D work into embedded products for cable networks. The Irish
R&D team's skills include full turnkey hardware development of
RF products, embedded software, testing and integration, as well as
contract manufacturing management. This investment will further
endorse the Cork operation's position as a Centre-of-Excellence for
the development of video products within ARRIS. The Cork operation,
formerly Com21 Ireland Ltd, was established in 1999 and was
acquired by ARRIS in mid-2003. The operation, with previous IDA
Ireland R&D support, has successfully developed several
products, including the D5 Universal EdgeQAM. "With the additional
investment, we will develop solutions across a number of areas that
will allow us to increase our production output significantly,
reliably and to the highest degree of quality," said Charles
Cheevers, ARRIS CTO, Europe. "This requires significant R&D in
new techniques to manufacture high speed RF-based Video and Data
products and to create new test technologies and platforms to meet
the increasing technology and cost expectations of our customers
worldwide." About ARRIS ARRIS is a global communications technology
company specializing in the design, engineering and supply of
technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services for
residential and business customers around the world. The company
supplies broadband operators with the tools and platforms they need
to deliver reliable telephony, demand driven video, next-generation
advertising and high-speed data services. ARRIS products expand and
help grow network capacity with access and outside plant
construction equipment, reliably deliver voice, video and data
services and assure optimal service delivery for end customers.
Headquartered in Suwanee, GA, USA, ARRIS has R&D centers in
Atlanta; Chicago; State College, PA; Beaverton, OR; Wallingford,
CT; 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/
DATASOURCE: ARRIS CONTACT: Alex Swan, ARRIS Media Relations,
+1-678-473-8327, ; or Department of Enterprise, Trade and
Employment- Press Office, 01- 6312200; IDA Ireland - Ruth Croke,
Press & PR Manager, 087 4195051, Web site:
http://www.arrisi.com/
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