August 30, 2010

ARRIS Telephony Modem Awarded EuroDOCSIS 3.0 Certification

ARRIS' Touchstone TM902 Embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter (E-MTA) has been awarded EuroDOCSIS 3.0 and EuroPacketCable 1.5 certification by Cable Europe Labs.

The Touchstone TM902 is a wideband voice and data modem customer premises device with two ports for primary line voice and a high-speed data port, capable of delivering data throughput speeds of up to 400 Mbps to the end user, through DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding technology.

The TM902 comes in three models: the TM902A for North America and the TM902B and TM902S for Europe. All have internal power supplies, 8 Downstream by 4 Upstream silicon technology.  The TM902S comes with an On/Off switch, to further comply with European power consumption requirements.

“We are extremely pleased that ARRIS has chosen the BCM3382 cable modem E-MTA System-on-a Chip (SOC) to expand its 8D X 4U E-MTA product portfolio and that ARRIS is the first to receive Cable Europe Labs EuroDOCSIS 3.0 certification,” said Jay Kirchoff, Broadcom’s senior director of marketing for its Broadband Communications Group.