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October 08, 2009
ARRIS and VECTOR Expand Cooperation
TMCnet Contributor
ARRIS, a provider of telecommunications technologies, and VECTOR, a European provider that specializes in supplying broadband solutions for European broadband operators, have decided to expand their collaboration with the addition of ARRIS’ optical solutions to VECTOR's portfolio.
VECTOR has represented ARRIS as a value-added reseller in the areas of DOCSIS-based high speed data and cable telephony for years, and is now expanding the portfolio of ARRIS solutions it sells, with the addition of the ARRIS CHP Max 5000 Converged Headend Platform.
In a release, ARRIS officials said that the CHP Max5000 is one of the most advanced Headend platforms available on the market, and enables operators to tap into new revenue streams such as business services or deliver more VOD, HD VOD and SDV without deploying any new fiber.
Officials claim that using the CHP suite of products, MSOs can expand their existing fiber capacity by up to 1,600 percent in the downstream and upstream on as little as one fiber.
"We are very pleased to expand our long standing relationship with ARRIS and are eager to win new opportunities for this exciting new technology," said Marcin Starzynski, product development director at VECTOR, in the release.
Starzynski said that the ARRIS CHP Headend Platform is an ideal complement to the company’s current access network products and allows building next generation broadband fiber infrastructure solutions for the company’s growing European customer base."
"We are delighted to have VECTOR add our award-winning CHP Headend platform to the array of solutions they offer their European customers," said Peter Wolff, VP & GM of the ARRIS Access, Transport and Supplies Group.
Wolff said that the platform brings a cost-effective and architecturally elegant solution to operators wishing to address new revenue stream segments such as business services, VOD and switched digital.
In September ARRIS had announced that N.V. Kabeltelevisie Noord-Oost Friesland, known as Kabel Noord, has selected the ARRIS DOCSIS 3.0 C4 CMTS platform to increase the data speeds it offers its 25,000 customers in the northeastern areas of Friesland, The Netherlands.
Kabel Noord currently offers access to its own ISP, KNID, as well as those from two other Dutch MSOs, UPC and Ziggo (News - Alert), and intends to use the DOCSIS 3.0 C4 platform to consolidate the three services to upgrade and manage the various traffic flows from inside its network.
VECTOR has represented ARRIS as a value-added reseller in the areas of DOCSIS-based high speed data and cable telephony for years, and is now expanding the portfolio of ARRIS solutions it sells, with the addition of the ARRIS CHP Max 5000 Converged Headend Platform.
In a release, ARRIS officials said that the CHP Max5000 is one of the most advanced Headend platforms available on the market, and enables operators to tap into new revenue streams such as business services or deliver more VOD, HD VOD and SDV without deploying any new fiber.
Officials claim that using the CHP suite of products, MSOs can expand their existing fiber capacity by up to 1,600 percent in the downstream and upstream on as little as one fiber.
"We are very pleased to expand our long standing relationship with ARRIS and are eager to win new opportunities for this exciting new technology," said Marcin Starzynski, product development director at VECTOR, in the release.
Starzynski said that the ARRIS CHP Headend Platform is an ideal complement to the company’s current access network products and allows building next generation broadband fiber infrastructure solutions for the company’s growing European customer base."
"We are delighted to have VECTOR add our award-winning CHP Headend platform to the array of solutions they offer their European customers," said Peter Wolff, VP & GM of the ARRIS Access, Transport and Supplies Group.
Wolff said that the platform brings a cost-effective and architecturally elegant solution to operators wishing to address new revenue stream segments such as business services, VOD and switched digital.
In September ARRIS had announced that N.V. Kabeltelevisie Noord-Oost Friesland, known as Kabel Noord, has selected the ARRIS DOCSIS 3.0 C4 CMTS platform to increase the data speeds it offers its 25,000 customers in the northeastern areas of Friesland, The Netherlands.
Kabel Noord currently offers access to its own ISP, KNID, as well as those from two other Dutch MSOs, UPC and Ziggo (News - Alert), and intends to use the DOCSIS 3.0 C4 platform to consolidate the three services to upgrade and manage the various traffic flows from inside its network.
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Edited by Patrick Barnard