SUWANEE, Ga., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS
Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) today announced that Christopher Skarica, ARRIS VP, Strategic
Accounts, Canada has been named
the 2012 Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year by the SCTE
Canada. The award honors outstanding technical achievements
and contributions made to the advancement of the cable
telecommunications industry by a Canadian engineering
professional. Skarica will be honored at a special luncheon
on Wednesday, March 28th during the
SCTE Canadian Summit in Toronto,
March 27-28, 2012. This is the
first time that an engineering resource of a technology supplier
company has been honored with the SCTE Canada Award.
Skarica joined ARRIS in March, 2010 as Account VP, Strategic
Accounts in Canada, and is
responsible for serving strategic Canadian MSO accounts in their
purchase and deployment of the complete line of ARRIS solutions.
During his 24 year cable industry career, Skarica has
numerous notable accomplishments. He was responsible for the
first Canadian MPEG-2 digital video system demo; oversaw the active
HFC setup for several major two-way upgrade projects; was
instrumental in engineering the first 4-feed multi-beam satellite
deployments in Canada; led the
team that commercially deployed the first North American DOCSIS®
1.0 CMTS and CM system; managed RF testing and qualification of a
large Canadian MSO's first 860 MHz, two-way HFC plant
implementation; was instrumental in delivering the industry's first
HFC outside plant DOCSIS WiFi® hotspot technology; patented the
industry's first active Ethernet-based optical access network
architecture and the first transport architecture to deliver
streaming ITU-R601 video over a metro area storage network.
Before joining ARRIS, Skarica was CTO at Huawei Technologies,
working with the North American MSO and Cable Team. Prior to that,
Skarica held VP of Engineering and Sales titles at Lindsay
Broadband and Broadbus Technologies. He also spent five years with
Nortel as Chief Technology Advisor on the Global MSO Solutions
team. Additionally, Skarica worked for several years as Cogeco
Cable Ontario's Director of Engineering and, before that, as Senior
Project Manager and Headend Technician at Rogers Cablesystems and
as an engineering technologist for Maclean
Hunter Cable's corporate engineering team.
ARRIS has a long history of service to the Canadian cable
service provider market and is fully committed to its long-term
success. ARRIS industry-leading solutions and products have
been deployed at all of Canada's
top MSOs, including Rogers Communications Inc, Shaw Communications,
Videotron, Cogeco and Eastlink.
About ARRIS
ARRIS is a global communications technology company specializing in
the design, engineering and supply of communications and IP
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 and
monitor advanced video, data and voice subscriber services,
including whole home video across multiple screens, ultra
high-speed data, personalized advertising and carrier-grade
telephony. Headquartered near Atlanta, in Suwanee,
Georgia, USA, ARRIS has R&D centers in Beaverton, OR; Chicago, IL; Cork,
Ireland; Kirkland, WA;
Redwood City, CA; Shenzhen, China; State College, PA; Tel Aviv, Israel; Wallingford, CT and Waltham, MA, 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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