ARRIS Expands Edge Line, Aims at CCAP

The newest member of ARRIS' (NASDAQ:ARRS) portfolio, the E6000 Converged Edge Router (E6000 CER), is on display along with ARRIS C4 and C4c CMTS platforms and the Media Services Platform (MSP) at Expo. The portfolio is designed to help cable operators prepare for CCAP, maximize bandwidth and simplify operations.The CCAP-capable E6000 CER is designed to support a redundant design hitless fail-over, and hot-swapping of cards, and field-deployment ready IPv6. Operators can mix and match ARRIS cable edge products. All elements of the E6000 CER are designed to be redundant, either N+1 or 1+1, and hot-swappable. Designed for 99.999% system availability, the E6000 CER has a self-healing architecture, ARRIS says.