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Polish MSO TOYA Chooses ARRIS Cadant(R) C4(TM) CMTS for its Multimedia Services Platform SUWANEE, Ga., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) today announced that VECTOR, its Value Added Reseller in Poland, has sold the ARRIS Cadant C4 CMTS to Polish MSO TOYA as the central piece in the development of its high speed data service offerings. In the near future, TOYA plans to use the Cadant C4 CMTS, with its PacketCable(TM) MultiMedia and DOCSIS(R) Set-Top Gateway (DSG) capabilities, as the platform for implementing carrier-class voice and digital multimedia services. TOYA is one of Poland's largest CATV operators and has networks in Lodz, Kutno, Myslowice and Przemysl. In addition to providing a wide range of TV channels, TOYA currently offers subscribers Internet service with a speed of 512 kbs, game servers, FTP, information servers and 100 MB of disk space for e-mail and personal web page usage. Next month, with the Cadant C4 CMTS in place, TOYA plans to offer its customers increased bandwidth and much faster Internet speeds. "At present, TOYA offers subscribers a window to global information and entertainment services as well as high-speed Internet access," noted Rafal Banas, IT Department Manager at TOYA. "We also are planning the introduction of new services such as telephony, digital television and VOD, and, to that end, we have taken the first step with the purchase of the carrier-class Cadant C4 CMTS. We were looking for a system that provided the highest availability of services, flexibility of configuration and performance robust enough to support tens of thousands of subscribers. The Cadant C4 CMTS fulfills all those requirements and ensures the realization of our plans." About ARRIS and the Cadant C4 CMTS ARRIS provides broadband local access networks with innovative 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/ . The ARRIS Cadant C4 CMTS is a PacketCable, DOCSIS 2.0 and Euro-DOCSIS 1.1 qualified carrier-grade edge router/CMTS that delivers the industry's highest levels of performance in terms of capacity, density, throughput and availability. With PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) and DOCSIS Set-top Gateway (DSG) feature support, the C4 CMTS meets subscribers' growing demands for new and advanced services, while reducing operational costs with carrier-grade system scalability to tens of thousands of subscribers per system. The C4 CMTS offers a complete family of network connectivity options including Gigabit Ethernet. The fully redundant and serviceable system architecture delivers unprecedented service availability, re-defining new levels of performance to cable data customers worldwide. About TOYA: TOYA was established in 1991 and is one of the largest Polish CATV networks. TOYA delivers a wide range of analog TV channels (including its own regional news channel), high-speed Internet access and a set of web servers offering access to information and entertainment to its customers. TOYA has received numerous national and local awards for its services. About VECTOR: VECTOR is one of the leading European companies providing design, implementation and integration services for telecommunication systems. The company specializes in advanced telecommunication solutions and TV broadcasting systems dedicated to a broad spectrum of customers. VECTOR's well established position, supported by years of experience, helps to offer cable operators comprehensive systems and services, necessary for building and operating modern HFC networks and provisioning multimedia services. DATASOURCE: ARRIS CONTACT: Alex Swan of ARRIS Media Relations, +1-678-473-8327, or Web site: http://www.arrisi.com/

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