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ARRIS to play key role in
LG 4K roll-out
RRIS has
revealed it is to
play a key role in
broadband cable MSO
Liberty Global's
deployment of its nextgeneration Horizon
gateways. The comments
came during
presentation of ARRIS
Q4 2014 results.
Describing 2014 as “a
great year” for ARRIS in
which it completed the
integration of Motorola
Home ahead of schedule and
focused intently on growing
the business, Bob Stanzione,
CEO, reported that during
the quarter, ARRIS secured a
“strategic” position in a new
next-generation 4K DVB
Video Gateway programme
with Liberty Global which
would allow it to further its
international market and
portfolio expansion.
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NCTA’s Powell: ‘Title
II backward-looking’
NCTA president and CEO
Michael Powell has
warned of the
consequences of the FCC
– of which he was a
former chairman –
adopting public utilitystyle regulation of the
Internet when it
introduces its ‘Open
Internet’ rules designed
to ensure net neutrality.
Explaining the cable
trade body’s position,
Powell suggests that
Chairman Wheeler’s
proposal to impose the
“heavy burden” of Title II
public utility regulation on
the Internet goes far
beyond the “worthy” goal
He said that ARRIS was
“very excited to be a key
supplier again to Liberty
Global, as part of its major
Internet infrastructure
investment plan for the UK,
as well as its expanding
business in Europe and
South America. “Our overall
relationship and the level of
the business with this
strategically important
customer will continue to
grow over the next several
years. One of the most
important programmes in
2015 is the development of
the DOCSIS 3.1 capabilities
across the portfolio and I'm
very pleased with our
progress so far and we
believe we’re leading the
industry in this critical new
technology. We expect lab
and field trials later this
year,” he advised.
Larry Robinson,
president, customer
premises equipment,
described the ARRIS
technology as the kind of
Next Generation platform
ARRIS had actively under
development and from its
architecture standpoints,
should be applicable
throughout a number of
other deployments.
of establishing important
net neutrality protections.
“It will result in a
backward-looking new
regulatory regime, illsuited for the dynamic
Internet, with far reaching
and troubling
consequences. We believe
that such a significant
expansion of the FCC’s
authority is unnecessary
and will only deliver further
uncertainty instead of
legally enforceable rule