CMTS
Superior CMTS delivers greater revenues
For cable operators looking to provide exceptional service to subscribers and to maximize revenues from new offerings, a high-performance cable modem termination system (CMTS) is critical. As the market continues to transform and transition to a convergence of voice, data and multimedia services, the right CMTS can speed this transition and help operators lay claim to a greater share of their market. When choosing a CMTS, high performance is a must, as it affects quality of service, customer satisfaction and ultimately potential revenues. For best-of-breed cable modem termination systems today, cable operators around the world are turning to ARRIS.
ARRIS provides world-class CMTS products
A global communications company serving the cable industry, ARRIS offers two CMTS products designed to serve the needs of cable operators in any size market.
The ARRIS C4® CMTS is the first high-performance carrier-class CMTS for advanced IP services. With the C4 solution, cable operators can meet subscriber demand for new services by providing advanced data, voice and multimedia services to residential and business customers over a converged IP network. With no single point of failure and 99.999% availability, the C4 CMTS allows operators to increase subscriber satisfaction and retention. By guaranteeing delivery of differentiated and dynamic services, this superior CMTS presents new revenue opportunities like tiered data telephony and streaming video. The C4 solution is DOCSIS® 2.0, Euro-DOCSIS 2.0 and PacketCable™ 1.0 qualified and can serve up to 4,500 cable modems per downstream (52,000 cable modems per chassis) or voice capacity of up to 1,800 lines per downstream (32,000 lines per chassis.)
The ARRIS C3™ CMTS is a flexible, powerful and easy-to-use system for next generation IP services. The C3 CMTS is a DOCSIS 2.0 qualified solution that occupies only a single unit of rack space and allows operators in any size market to successfully deploy advanced DOCSIS functionality. The C3 unit allows operators to select either Layer 2 or Layer 3 forwarding, and supports more than 2,000 cable modems or users per system. With the C3 CMTS, operators can offer advanced tiered data, peer-to-peer, and voice telephony services over converged IP networks to both residential and commercial subscribers.
Rigorous testing ensures high-quality, high-interoperability in ARRIS CMTS offerings
Like all ARRIS products, the C3 and C4 CMTS are tested under extreme conditions in world-class labs. By testing at scale in configurations with equipment from multiple vendors, ARRIS ensures its products deliver high interoperability, reducing installation and performance problems and minimizing costs in service and support calls.
ARRIS also delivers solutions for embedded multimedia terminal adapter (EMTA), fixed mobile convergence (FMC), Intelligent Management Systems (IMS), and wireless broadband, wideband, and broadband services.
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