ARRIS Develops Edge Product for Digital Video and On-Demand Content

ARRIS introduced a new class of edge network device for cable operators that is designed for simultaneous delivery of MPEG- 2TS and DVB-C based digital video content and emerging DOCSIS-based IP digital multimedia content and signaling. The ARRIS Q5 Digital Multimedia Termination System (DMTS) couples QAM and DOCSIS/EUR-DOCSIS 2.0 CMTS technologies with integral multiplexing features. These capabilities enables the ARRIS Q5 DMTS to produce a dynamically allocated multiplex of digital video broadcast, Video on Demand (VoD), IP Multicast, IP Unicast and DOCSIS data content that is compatible with a variety of MPEG-2 and IP Set-Top Boxes along with IP-enabled consumer devices.



The ARRIS Q5 DMTS is a 2 RU device configured with 4 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) WAN ports with a 1:1 WAN redundancy option, along with a fully flexible mix of up to 6 HFC transport modules. These modules are the Dual Quad QAM module and the Quad Upstream DOCSIS/EUR-DOCSIS module that enable a wide variety of user-defined configurations. Supported configurations include any combination of 8 to 48 independently provisioned MPEG transport downstream channels in 4 block converted channel groupings, as well as up to 24 DOCSIS 2.0 downstream channels and 12 independently mappable DOCSIS/EUR-DOCSIS 2.0 upstream channels, and a next generation "Phy-less" 24 upstream CMTS with GbE downstream interface. http://www.arrisi.com