SUWANEE, Ga., Oct. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS Group,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) a global innovator in broadband media
technology, extends a warm welcome to the Society of Cable
Telecommunications Engineers' (SCTE) Cable-Tec EXPO 2011, to be
held in the ARRIS headquarters city of Atlanta, Georgia, November 15-17, 2011. As a hometown host, ARRIS
will showcase how it can assist operators in achieving their
business objectives and transition to converged IP services during
multiple speaker presentations, sponsored events and product
demonstrations in its booth (#873).
"The proliferation of connected devices and mobile screens
provides cable operators with a vast array of options and
challenges," said Stan Brovont, SVP,
Marketing and Business Development at ARRIS. "Consumers want
seamless communications and entertainment, when and where they
choose, in the home and on-the-go, and service providers need to
determine the most efficient ways to deliver those services and
features. Through our many technical paper presentations and our
booth experiences, we will illustrate the options that operators
now have available to provide the broadest subscriber experience
possible."
Eleven company presentations will outline how various solutions
can be strategically applied to operators' individual architectures
as follows:
- CEO Bob Stanzione will
participate on the opening general session on Industry Partnerships
- Carol Ansley – MoCA®
trouble-shooting experiences (Home Certification Workshop)
- Jeff Brooks – IP video
transition (IP Video Workshop)
- Santhana Chari and Dan Torbet – video transcoding strategies (CDN
Transcoding Workshop)
- Tom Cloonan – analysis of
adaptive bit rate streaming apps (Capacity Planning Workshop)
- Gary Cunha – telemetry and
monitoring management (Facilities Management Workshop)
- Mike Emmendorfer – all-digital
head end and hub architecture (Advanced Services Workshop)
- Mike Emmendorfer – IPTV
opportunities in the MDU market (Access Network Workshop)
- Jeff Howe – evolution of the
head end in a CCAP world (Critical Facilities)
- Jerry Patton – wireless
technologies (Wireless Workshop)
- Scott Shupe – EPON and RFoG
solutions (Fiber Solutions Workshop)
Next-generation converged content access and distribution are in
the ARRIS sweet spot, and the company will showcase how its
solutions increase capacity while providing a seamless migration to
IP. Live demonstrations will show industry-leading broadband
solutions designed to support the ever-increasing amount of video
content being distributed while providing a superior customer
experience, including:
- The ARRIS DOCSIS 3.0 C4® CMTS -- delivering more
bandwidth than ever through the widely-deployed double-density XD
CAM downstream card and new 24U CAM upstream card with IPv6
capabilities.
- The ARRIS Touchstone® customer premises equipment (CPE)
portfolio for in-home wired and wireless voice and data
services, offering the most comprehensive portfolio of
products at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) available.
- The ARRIS Whole Home Solution – a centralized
triple-play Gateway solution consisting of the Moxi® Gateway and
Moxi Players, which simultaneously reduces an operator's in-home
costs while increasing the subscriber's service experience.
In addition to the live demonstrations, virtual interactive
touch-screen stations in the booth will exhibit how ARRIS opens up
new revenue streams and lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
for operators as they migrate networks to an all-IP model,
including:
- Access and transport solutions and a portfolio of
EPON and RFoG solutions
- The ARRIS VIPr™ 4000 Advanced Video Processing
platform
- ARRIS ServAssure™ network and service management and
WorkAssure™ workforce automation solutions
- The ARRIS end-to-end Wi-Fi® deployment system, featuring
Ruckus wireless access solutions.
- Linear and advanced advertising insertion solutions
- The ARRIS Fixed Mobile Convergence solution for cellular
voice, data, SMS and MMS offload
For more information about ARRIS activities or expert
availability at the SCTE EXPO 2011, visit www.arrisi.com/events
About ARRIS
ARRIS is a global communications technology company specializing
in the design, engineering and supply of technologies that support
broadband services for residential and business customers around
the world. The company supplies broadband operators with the tools
and platforms they need to deliver converged IP video solutions,
carrier-grade telephony, network video processing, whole home
video, demand driven video, next-generation advertising, network
and workforce management solutions, access and transport
architectures and ultra high-speed data services. Headquartered in
Suwanee, Georgia, USA, ARRIS has
R&D centers in Suwanee;
Beaverton, OR; Chicago, IL; Kirkland, WA; State
College, PA; Wallingford,
CT; Waltham, MA;
Cork, Ireland; and Shenzhen, China, and operates support and
sales offices throughout the world. Information about ARRIS
products and services can be found at www.arrisi.com.
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