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ARRIS Group Inc. is a telecommunications equipment manufacturing company which provides cable operators with high-speed data
Data
The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...

, video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

 and telephony
Telephony
In telecommunications, telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other....

 systems for homes and businesses. The company is headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia
Suwanee, Georgia
As of 2010 Suwanee had a population of 15,355. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 67.4% white, 10.8% black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 18.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.3% reporting some other race and 2.3% reporting two or more races...

, and has design, engineering, manufacturing, distribution, service and sales office locations throughout the world.

Two of the company's popular home telephony modems are the TM402P and the TM502G.

Acquisitions

ARRIS purchased C-COR
C-COR
C-COR is a communication services company incorporated in 1953 and based in State College, Pennsylvania. The corporation is best known for creating video transport systems. In 1965, C-COR introduced the use of integrated circuits in amplifiers used on utility poles and in 1969 was the first to use...

 in late 2007.

On 2009-09-01 ARRIS acquired certain assets of EG Technology, Inc. (EGT), an Atlanta-based company.

On 2009-09-22 ARRIS purchased the assets of Digeo, Inc. (including Moxi
Moxi
Moxi is a line of high definition Digital Video Recorders produced by ARRIS Group, Inc. Moxi was originally released only to cable operators but in December 2008 was released as a retail product to the general public. The current retail product, the Moxi HD DVR, provides a high definition user...

), for approximately $20 million.
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