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Belgian MSO Telenet Chooses ARRIS E-MTAS for Large-Scale VOIP Deployment SUWANEE, Ga., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS , a global communications technology leader, today announced that Telenet, Belgium's largest MSO, has selected ARRIS as its E-MTA supplier and has placed a substantial initial order for ARRIS DOCSIS(R) 2.0-certified and EuroDOCSIS 2.0-based Touchstone(R) TTM 402B indoor E-MTAs. The ARRIS E-MTAs will be used to address the customer premises side of Telenet's large-scale PacketCable(TM) VoIP deployment. "The ARRIS E-MTA enables us to offer both telephony and Internet services over the same customer premises device, thereby reducing our costs significantly," said Piet Spiessens, Telenet Vice President of Network and Application Services. "After much review we selected the Touchstone TTM 402B since it proved to be a very reliable and feature-rich device that is perfectly interoperable with our Nortel Networks PacketCable VoIP softswitch." "This Telenet order represents the largest shipment to date of our EuroDOCSIS 2.0-based EMTA," said ARRIS President of Worldwide Sales Ron Coppock. "We are honored to have been selected by one of Europe's most innovative and service-oriented triple-play providers, and we look forward to providing Telenet with the customer premises components they will need as their VoIP deployment progresses." About ARRIS ARRIS provides broadband local access networks with innovative optical transport, high-speed data and telephony systems for the delivery of voice, video and data to the home and business. ARRIS complete solutions enhance the reliability and value of converged services from the network to the subscriber. Headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, ARRIS has design, engineering, manufacturing, distribution, service and sales office locations throughout the world. Information about ARRIS products and services can be found at http://www.arrisi.com/ . About Telenet Telenet is one of the largest providers of broadband cable services in Belgium. Its business comprises the provision of cable television, high speed internet and telephony services, primarily to residential customers in Flanders. In addition, Telenet offers services to business customers all across Belgium and in Luxembourg under its brand Telenet Solutions. Telenet offers its residential services through a combination of its cable network, which passes some 1.7 million homes in Flanders and through long term usage rights on cable networks which pass a further 0.7 million homes in Flanders. All the networks through which Telenet offers residential services in Flanders have been upgraded to a two way digital HFC (hybrid fiber coaxial) standard and Telenet has direct relationships with all of its internet and telephony customers. Telenet offers voice, data and internet services to its business customers through its state of the art fiber backbone which covers all Belgium and Luxembourg. DATASOURCE: ARRIS CONTACT: Alex Swan of ARRIS Media Relations, +1-678-473-8327, or Web site: http://www.arrisi.com/

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