Consolidated chooses ARRIS Whole Home Solution and ConvergeMedia Management Suite

Consolidated Communications Chooses the ARRIS Whole Home Solution and ConvergeMedia™ Management Suite

SUWANEE, Ga. — Consolidated Communications, one of the nation’s largest independent providers of digital TV, high-speed Internet, and voice services, elected to deploy the ARRIS Group (NASDAQ: ARRS) Whole Home Solution and ConvergeMedia Management Suite across its Kansas City market. This ARRIS offering will enable Consolidated subscribers to enjoy up to six HD programs at one time, whole home DVR, and a more personalized content experience.

ARRIS’s comprehensive triple-play Media Gateway, delivers the best in multi-room DVR, Wi-Fi, DOCSIS® 3.0, and more. When coupled with ARRIS’s ConvergeMedia Management Suite, these services will offer personalized, device-specific, and future-ready features, converged into a single, intuitive user interface.

“We switched to ARRIS solutions to give our subscribers the best home entertainment and communications experiences, and we’re glad we did it,” said Tom White, Chief Technology Officer, Consolidated Communications. “Early indications show customers are extremely happy with the new level of services we’ve achieved with the ARRIS Whole Home Solution. And the ConvergeMedia Management Suite helped us simplify our expanding on-demand operations.”

“Independent operators like Consolidated Communications are raising the bar for service quality using ARRIS solutions,” said Bruce McClelland, President, Network & Cloud and Global Services, ARRIS. “It’s amazing to see how quickly they’ve been able to deploy new, differentiated services and how their subscribers are embracing them.”

ARRIS is an active participant in the community of independent cable operators across North America. At this year’s annual “The Independent Show,” July 27-30, 2014, in Kansas City, Missouri, ARRIS is a top-level sponsor, exhibiting in booth 309/311.