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To: faqsnlojiks who wrote (1073)	12/3/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Roger Sherman	Respond to of 2437

Haven't seen this article posted yet. Sorry I don't have the direct link (from AOL's CHTR news): ..................................................... GI Marks Industry Milestone Shipment of 1,000th Digital Headend; GI Digital System Deployments to Pass Over 41 Million Homes HORSHAM, Pa., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- General Instrument Corporation (NYSE: GIC) announced today a key milestone for the company and the cable industry with the shipment of its 1,000th digital headend to Charter Communications (Nasdaq: CHTR). The Jackson, Tennessee Charter cable system serves approximately 24,000 subscribers in the Western part of the state. As part of an upgrade to the Jackson system, Charter's new digital headend will feature dozens of new high-quality digital channels, a multi-format digital audio service, video-on-demand, high-speed Internet access via television or PC, and an interactive program guide. "We are pleased to deploy GI's 1,000th digital headend," said John Pietri, Senior Vice President, Engineering for Charter Communications. "This GI milestone is testimony to its important role in the broadband industry, making it possible for companies like Charter to deliver the advanced interactive services that our customers are demanding." GI's open, advanced interactive digital system provides network operators with maximum flexibility in supporting content delivery from any source while simultaneously delivering real-time interactive services. All of this is achievable because GI's fully OpenCable-compliant digital system has been built around open standards and interfaces, ensuring that broadband network operators have full control to deliver and bill for interactive services. This open architecture, coupled with the power of the digital set-tops being deployed, allows feature-rich software suites to be integrated and deployed. "Subscribers in Jackson are about to enjoy a real treat," said Denton Kanouff, Vice President of Marketing for GI's Digital Network Systems business unit. "GI is proud to partner with operators like Charter to provide consumers the choice, convenience, quality, and value of digital cable. Consumers absolutely love digital cable services. Operators deploying digital have a proven economic winner on their hands. The thousand systems from GI include every type -- big and small; suburban, urban and rural; already rebuilt or still in the rebuild planning stage." As with the preceding 999 systems, Charter's digital headend was built and tested in General Instrument's state-of-the-art production facility in Dallas, Texas. This facility, which is also responsible for manufacturing individual digital components used in the digital headend, is capable of producing hundreds of turnkey digital systems each year. Each digital headend goes through an extensive integration and test cycle before being shipped to the cable system, ensuring a seamless on-site integration with the existing cable headend. GI offers more digital network configuration options than any company in the world. Configuration options range from small and midsize nationally controlled systems, to more complex locally controlled networks, and finally expanding to very large regional control architectures supporting multiple headends and hubs from a single main control center. Each of these system designs can be outfitted to support multiple return path options from telco to high-speed DOCSIS supporting a wide range of interactive services. The 1,000th headend marks the latest in a series of outstanding milestones for the company: -- GI delivered its first digital system in September 1996. -- GI's digital system deployments now pass over 41 million homes. -- GI shipped its 5 millionth interactive digital set-top terminal in September 1999. -- GI began shipping, in volume, the industry's first true convergence product -- the DCT-5000+ during the 3rd quarter of 1999. General Instrument is a leading worldwide provider of integrated and interactive broadband access solutions, teaming with its business partners to lead the convergence of the Internet, telecommunications, and video entertainment industries. Visit General Instrument website at www.gi.com. SOURCE General Instrument Corporation CO: General Instrument Corporation; Charter Communications ST: Pennsylvania, Tennessee IN: CPR TLS ENT SU: 12/03/1999 14:32 EST prnewswire.com