SUWANEE, Ga., April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS
Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS) today announced that Comcast,
the world's largest cable service provider, has enabled IPv6
functionality on its entire ARRIS C4 CMTS footprint, ensuring that
Comcast can utilize IPv6 addressing to deliver IP-based services as
the available IPv4 address space approaches exhaustion.
"The ability to employ IPv6 across our entire network nationwide
is critical to Comcast. Our deployment of IPv6 with the C4
CMTS platform has been smooth and successful," said John Brzozowski, Comcast Fellow and Chief IPv6
Architect. "We appreciate the skill and effort that ARRIS has
shown in delivering robust IPv6 solutions."
Operators can choose the manner in which they utilize IPv6 with
the C4 CMTS, including cable modem management and dual-stack CPE
behind the cable modem. The C4 CMTS supports a broad set of
IPv6 features including options for the IPv6 Interior Gateway
Protocol (IGP), Prefix Delegation and Prefix Stability, and many
others – all of which operate at scale. IPv6 deployment with
the C4 CMTS is expanding rapidly worldwide as operators deplete
their IPv4 resources including those providing services over cable
or DOCSIS®. No other CMTS platform has a similar
level of IPv6 deployment.
"Over the past two years we've worked closely with our customers
to plan IPv6 feature support for our C4 CMTS portfolio," said
Todd Kessler, ARRIS VP, CMTS Product
Management. "We're thrilled to see the success that Comcast
has had using our products, first in their IPv6 customer trials,
and now across their entire C4 CMTS footprint."
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, from the billions to the
trillions, 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 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 Group, Inc.