ARRIS Group company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered
in Suwanee, Georgia. ARRIS Group, Inc. develops,
manufactures, and supplies telephony, data, video,
construction, rebuild, and maintenance equipment for the
broadband communications industry worldwide. It operates in
three segments: Broadband Communications Systems (BCS);
Access, Transport, & Supplies (ATS); and Media &
Communications Systems (MCS). The BCS segment offers VOIP
and high speed data products, including CMTS edge router, 2-
line residential EMTA, multi-line EMTA for residential and
commercial services, wireless gateway EMTA, and high speed
data cable modems; and video/IP products, such as CMTS edge
router, universal EdgeQAM, and whole home DVR. It also
provides video processing products that comprise digital
video encoders and multiplexers; and transcoders,
transraters, and statistical multiplexers. The ATS segment
offers hybrid fiber-coaxial plant equipment products
comprising headend and hub products, optical transmitters,
optical amplifiers, optical repeaters, optical nodes, ePON
optical network units, ePON optical line terminals, RF over
glass optical network units, and radio frequency products;
and infrastructure products for fiber optic or coaxial
networks, including cable and strand, vaults, conduit, drop
materials, tools, connectors, and test equipment. The MCS
segment offers content and operations management systems,
such as products for video on demand, ad insertion, and
digital advertising; operations management systems,
including products for service assurance, service
fulfillment, and mobile workforce management; and fixed
mobile convergence network comprising products for mobility
application server for continuity of services across
wireless and packetcable networks, and voice call continuity
application server for continuity of services in IP
multimedia subsystem networks. ARRIS markets its products
primarily to cable system operators and multiple system
operators.