ARRIS Brings Triple Play IP Solutions for Three Screen Customer Experience to SCTE Expo

Suwanee, GA: ARRIS (Nasdaq: ARRS) announced its lineup of converged multimedia demonstrations in Booth #7108 at this year’s SCTE Expo in Denver, CO, October 28-30. Cable operators looking for cost effective, easy-to-deploy IP-based solutions will find a complete line of established and next generation products at the ARRIS booth, offering solutions designed from the Network Operations Center to the Head End, throughout the Distribution Network, and all the way to the end-user, viewing media on any screen.

Among the highlights are:

IP Video Solutions that seamlessly deliver personalized content and entertainment to subscribers on any screen. By leveraging IP Video over DOCSIS® 3.0, ARRIS lowers operational costs and accelerates new service deployment, improving overall operator ROI. Additionally, ARRIS will display Variable Bit Rate (VBR) Video delivery, a technological advancement that can increase video bandwidth efficiency by up to 50% and enable a simpler transition to IP for all service deliveries. VBR also improves video quality by eliminating the need for multi-location processing.

Advanced Video Processing – ARRIS will demonstrate 4:1 HD compression on the ARRIS VIPr® 2200, resulting in more efficient spectrum utilization and significant QAM channel cost savings. Additionally the VIPr platform’s new ad splicing feature will be debuted. With its recent acquisition of EGT, ARRIS now provides multi-format, multi-resolution video encoding of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, SD and HD channels.

The Ultimate Whole Home Experience – With its market-leading Touchstone® CPE line that provides DOCSIS 3.0-based phone, data and home networking services, and its recent purchase of Diego and the Moxi® whole home DVR, ARRIS delivers new revenue streams with personalized content to more screens.

Demand-driven Video & Advanced Advertising Solutions – The ConvergeMedia™ platform delivers heterogeneous video content and advanced advertising services on a single unified platform that reduces both Capital investments and Operational Expenses. Also shown for the first time will be a Start Over type of service and personalized, ‘build your own library’ VOD --more elements in constructing a superior subscriber experience.

Optimized Optical and HFC Solutions that let operators make success-based investments in existing HFC plant without capital intensive construction projects. These solutions provide more capacity for targeted services and expand capacity for existing fiber infrastructure with multi wavelength solutions. ARRIS will be showing its new DOCSIS Control Interface EPoN solution that speeds the deployment of business services without the need for an expensive over-build solution.

Network, Service and Workforce Assurance – The ARRIS Assurance suite of solutions improves access to system details, monitors network health in real-time, and optimizes the efficiency of customer installs and repair calls – all vital tools to keep maintenance and installation costs down and customer satisfaction high.

CMTS and Universal Edge QAM (UEQ) – CMTS solutions that open up markets with a smaller footprint and a versatile UEQ that can enable 30% more downstream channels than comparable Edge QAMs through QAM sharing, and utilizes lower power consumption per QAM channel than other solutions.

Fixed Mobile Convergence - a solution to cost-effectively deliver a wireless service that seamlessly transfers traffic from the mobile network to the cable operator’s IP infrastructure, reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.

Equipment & Supplies from manufacturers you trust. For over 50 years, ARRIS Supplies has helped operators reduce their inventory carrying charges and improve deployment lead times by offering one of the widest selections of HFC plant equipment in the industry. The portfolio includes business and commercial solutions, tiered bandwidth offerings that enable cellular tower backhaul and products which tap into the rapid growth in wireless traffic.

About ARRIS
ARRIS is a global communications technology company specializing in the design, engineering and supply of technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services for residential and business customers around the world. The company supplies broadband operators with the tools and platforms they need to deliver reliable telephony, demand driven video, next-generation advertising and high-speed data services. Headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, ARRIS has R&D centers in Atlanta; Chicago; State College, PA; Beaverton, OR; 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.