SUWANEE, Ga., Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS Group,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) today announced that its C4 CMTS,
supporting EuroDOCSIS™ 3.0 features, and its Touchstone TG862S
Wideband cable modems, using generally available software, have
successfully demonstrated interoperability for IPv6 services over a
weeklong period in the test labs of Excentis in Ghent,
Belgium.
"This announcement represents a validation of the comprehensive
IPv6-related research and development efforts conducted by
ARRIS, a leader in EuroDOCSIS 3.0 technology," said Todd Kessler, ARRIS VP, CMTS Product
Management. "Over the past years we've worked very closely
with our European customers to plan IPv6 feature support for both
our C4 CMTS and our Touchstone CPE portfolio."
"We're very pleased to have been part of such a successful
interoperability demonstration at Cable Europe Labs," said
Derek Elder, ARRIS SVP & GM,
Touchstone DOCSIS® CPE Business Unit. "European cable
operators can rest assured that our data modems and E-MTA voice and
data devices will support the full range of IPv6 migration
stages."
"The Cable industry has been preparing for the important and
necessary transition from IPv4 to IPv6 for some time now and, due
to our members' rapid growth, Cable Europe Labs has increased our
focus on validating technical solution and transition strategies,"
said Peter Percosan, Managing
Director of Cable Europe Labs. "The recent interoperability
event hosted by Excentis, successfully demonstrated the great
strides made by key vendor partners. It is a major industry
milestone."
The ARRIS CMTS and CPE products have shown IPv6 interoperability
in the areas of ED2.0+IPv6, ED3.0 and eRouter. Additionally,
several IPv6 migration techniques, like Dual-Stack Lite,
NAT64/DNS64 and NAT444, were also successfully
demonstrated.
Since 1981, IPv4 has been the publicly used Internet Protocol
and is currently the foundation for most Internet communications.
The exponential growth of the Internet and the traffic it enables
has created a need for more addresses, and IPv6 fills that
need.
For more information on the ARRIS C4 CMTS and IPv6, please
visit: www.arrisi.com/get/C4.
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
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.
SOURCE ARRIS