SUWANEE, Ga., March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS
Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) today announced its participation
and speaker lineup for the SCTE Canadian Summit in Toronto, March 27-28,
2012. The SCTE Canadian Summit is an international
event for cable engineering professionals focusing on the exchange
of technical information for today and tomorrow.
Michael Emmendorfer, ARRIS Senior
Director, Solution Architecture and Strategy, will present a paper
entitled "Next Generation–Cable Access Network (NG-CAN):
Examination of the Business Drivers and Network Approaches to
Enable a Multi-Gigabit Downstream and Gigabit Upstream DOCSIS®
Service over Coaxial Networks" at 9:45
AM on Wednesday, March 28th.
His presentation is part of the breakout session named "We Better
Get this Right! Critical Elements in the Planning and Evolution of
HFC Networks in Canada."
Jerry L. Patton, Product Manager
Wireless Networking and Janice
Despotakis, Manager Marketing Communications, both from the
Access and Transport team at ARRIS, have co-authored a primer
titled "What is Wi-Fi?" The primer was developed to support
SCTE's Wireless Symposium, which will take place on
March 26 in Toronto, Canada the day before the summit.
SCTE primers are a member resource and the Wi-Fi primer can be
viewed on the registration pages of the Wireless Symposium and
Canadian Summit through the month of March. It can also be
viewed from the Primer Series page of the SCTE website.
ARRIS has a long history of service to the Canadian cable
service provider market and is fully committed to its long-term
success. Its 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
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 Group, Inc.