ARRIS to Provide Voice and Data Solutions to Altrio's Subscribers;
ARRIS Data Provisioning System Integration Essential to the Total Solution
Wednesday March 13, 8:39 am Eastern Time
DULUTH, Ga., March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (Nasdaq: ARRS - news), a global communications technology leader, today announced that Altrio, a new, full-service broadband communications provider in the Southern California residential market, has selected ARRIS to provide a complete end-to-end voice and high-speed data solution. To ensure Altrio's successful automatic provisioning of data subscribers, ARRIS will serve as the systems integrator, incorporating the Cornerstone® Cable Provisioning System (CPS) 2000, the Ceon(TM) Integration and Provisioning Suite, Altrio's chosen billing system, ISP and backbone policy-based routers. This project represents $18.5 million in sales to ARRIS over the next three years.
The benefits of an integrated solution are numerous for both Altrio and their customers. This integration will simplify the process for Altrio's customers who wish to sign up for data services via cable modem. Additionally, the combined solution eliminates manual installation entries for each subscriber; effectively reducing installation costs and call center expenditures for Altrio.
``As a new operator, we needed to streamline our service launch in short order,'' said Dave Rozzelle, CEO of Altrio. ``With ARRIS as our principal vendor for our telephone and data broadband service solutions, we are able to accomplish that goal and in the area of back office solutions for data provisioning, ARRIS and their partner Ceon worked with other vendors to create a seamless, integrated system.''
``Altrio's management team consists of seasoned veterans in the cable television industry. Altrio's choice of ARRIS to launch this new endeavor is an endorsement for ARRIS both in terms of our technology and our ability to integrate the network,'' said Stan Brovont, VP of Marketing for the ARRIS Broadband business unit. ``Altrio has set very aggressive growth plans and ARRIS will support them every step of the way.''
``We chose ARRIS products because they are designed for the reliability and features we need to offer competitive voice and data services,'' said Dave Large, Altrio Chief Technology Officer. ``We decided on ARRIS for our network integration because they took the time to understand how we wanted to run our business, and they and their partner Ceon had solutions so flexible they were adapted to our needs in a very short period of time.''
Critical to Altrio's carrier-grade voice and data services is the reliability of every component of their network. For this reason, Altrio selected the ARRIS DOCSIS(TM) 1.1 qualified Cornerstone® CMTS 1500. The flexibility of the IP-based hardware in the CMTS 1500 will enable the deployment of advanced IP services over the network. The Cornerstone CMTS 1500s are used with the Cornerstone Modular Redundant Chassis to provide carrier grade network reliability and recovery.
Altrio has selected the ARRIS industry-leading cable telephony solution to provide local access telephone service to fast track into the telephony business with service equal to or better than the local exchange carrier. The Cornerstone Voice offering consists of Cornerstone Host Digital Terminals (HDTs) at the headend and Cornerstone Voice Port(TM) units at the customer premise.
In addition to the voice and data applications, Altrio has deployed the ARRIS LightPlex(TM) Optical Wavelength Router (OWR), which will provide Altrio with ultra-low insertion loss and single fiber bi-directionality to reduce equipment costs. The LightPlex OWR is a universal package for multiplexing and de-multiplexing applications. Altrio has also purchased high-quality plant infrastructure products from ARRIS, which will improve transmission reliability and provide Altrio with cost-effective network deployments.
About Cornerstone®
The Cornerstone family delivers a wide range of premium quality HFC data and voice services and provides a platform for converged broadband services. More than 600 customers worldwide deploy Cornerstone high-speed data solutions. ARRIS has over 2,600,000 working lines of Cornerstone telephony currently deployed with more than 56 operators globally. With capacity for over 12,800,000 million telephony and data lines already shipped, ARRIS is the clear leader in broadband local access.
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