Arris Interactive Ships Its 1,000,000th Voice Port
SUWANEE, Ga., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Arris Interactive, a Nortel
Networks/ANTEC, joint venture, today announced the shipping of its one-
millionth Cornerstone(R) Voice Port(TM). Arris believes this to be the largest
number of Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) Voice Network Interface Units (NIU)
shipped by any company in the world.
The first Voice Ports were deployed in April 1996 by Time Warner in
Rochester, N.Y. and by TCI, (now known as AT&T Broadband), in Hartford,
CT. The Cornerstone Voice Port combined with the Cornerstone Converged
Host Terminal (an IP Telephony and Constant Bit Rate headend) System is
deployed as a carrier-class HFC voice application by operators for primary line
telephony. In 1999, 172,420 lines of Cornerstone cable telephony were
deployed. To date in 2000, over 1,000,000 lines of Cornerstone cable
telephony have been deployed showing a 422% increase over the prior year,
making Cornerstone the most widely used HFC telephony solution in the
world.
"Much of our success can be attributed directly to the Arris digital telephone
system," said Alex Best, Vice President of Engineering of Cox
Communications. "With 330 Host Digital Terminals in place, allowing Cox a
maximum of 3,360 lines per system and more that 1.1 million lines of
capacity, we can extend a superior level of reliability and service to our
customer base," continued Best.
"We at Arris are pleased to see that operators around the world have chosen
Cornerstone voice solutions. Shipping our one-millionth Voice Port and having
deployed over 1,000,000 lines of telephony confirms our leadership in this
market," said Jim Lakin, President and COO of Arris. "Arris has commercial
deployments in over 42 US metropolitan areas and 26 countries around the
world," concluded Lakin.
The Voice Port is an environmentally hardened NIU that mounts on the side of
the home and converts voice into digital signals for transmission over the cable
operator's HFC plant. Voice Ports are available in two and four-line
configurations for residential use and multi-dwelling units are served with
twelve-line configurations. The Voice Port has proven its reliability through a
series of cumulative field reliability tests, with a Mean Time Between Failure
(MTBF) rate of only .4%, or one failure per 2,012,174 hours. It delivers all the
enhanced telephony features (e.g., caller ID and call waiting and high-speed
modem) which consumers have come to expect from their local phone service.
About Cornerstone
The Cornerstone family delivers a wide range of premium-quality hybrid
fiber-coax voice and high-speed data services and provides a platform for
converged broadband services.
About Arris Interactive
Arris Interactive is a joint venture formed by two industry leaders -- Nortel
Networks and ANTEC (Nasdaq: ANTC) -- to develop products for delivering
voice and data services over hybrid fiber-coax networks. Arris, built on the
strengths of its parent companies to deliver the Cornerstone family, the
market's leading cable telephony and cable modem systems.
Visit www.arris-i.com for more information on Arris Interactive and Cornerstone
solutions.
Cornerstone is a trademark of Northern Telecom under license to Arris
Interactive.
Nortel Networks is a trademark of Northern Telecom.
SOURCE ANTEC Corporation
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