(Update: addition of new 4th paragraph) ARRIS Unveils E6000™
Converged Edge Router at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012
SUWANEE, Ga., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS
Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) today announced that it has expanded
its cable edge portfolio, again. The newest member of the
portfolio, the E6000 Converged Edge Router (E6000 CER) will be on
display along with ARRIS C4 and C4c CMTS platforms and the Media
Services Platform (MSP) in ARRIS booth #2802 at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo
2012. The portfolio helps cable operators prepare for CCAP,
maximize bandwidth and add operational simplicity, allowing them to
better meet changing subscriber demands.
Versatile Portfolio with a Strong History of
Reliability
The CCAP-capable E6000 CER continues the highly successful
legacy of the C4 CMTS and delivers new levels of density and
cost-effectiveness in a simple, robust and integrated
architecture. The C4 CMTS has been shipping in volume for
over ten years, making it one of the industry's most successful
CMTS platforms. Customers rely on and endorse its
availability, performance, density, and total cost of
ownership.
"We've been working with the major cable operators and CableLabs
for over three years on the CCAP specifications and vision, and
believe that now is the time to introduce the increased
capabilities of the E6000," said Bruce
McClelland, ARRIS President, Products & Services. "We
have taken our CMTS and video processing experience and extended
its hallmarks of reliability and availability into higher density
applications which meet our customers' near term broadband
distribution needs."
"ARRIS has been a strong contributor to the development of
next-generation access platforms such as CCAP, and we are excited
to help them bring this to market," said Sam Chernak, Senior Vice President of Access
Technology for Comcast Cable. "They have been a technology
partner for many years, and we look forward to continuing this with
the CCAP platform."
Like the C4 CMTS, the E6000 CER provides a high availability,
high performance solution with high scalability. Like the C4 CMTS,
the E6000 supports a fully redundant design with no single point of
failure, hitless fail-over, and hot-swapping of cards, and
field-deployment ready IPv6. Operators can mix and match ARRIS
cable edge products to create the optimum network configuration for
deploying tomorrow's services with today's hardware.
All elements of the E6000 CER are redundant, either N+1 or 1+1,
and all are hot-swappable. Designed for 99.999% system
availability, the E6000 CER has a self-healing architecture that
maintains system services without interruption.
The ARRIS CMTS platforms – the C4 and C4c CMTS and E6000 CER --
allow operators to:
- Maximize revenue off a single chassis with the highest density
per rack unit in order to deliver more services at faster
speeds
- Increase subscriber satisfaction and retention with a
self-healing design that decreases outages
- Preserve capital investment with flexible platforms that offer
'wire once' architecture with software upgradeability and easy
mid-plane design
Visit www.arrisi.com/get/cer for more information on the Cable
Edge Router portfolio
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 Westborough, MA, and operates support and
sales offices throughout the world. Information about ARRIS
products and services can be found at www.arrisi.com.
SOURCE ARRIS