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NSCC Executive Summary CBG Communications, Inc. <br />channels, and aggregates the signals for the channels /entities that do their own playback. <br />All of this access signal origination from CfV's Roseville facility is directly connected <br />via fiber to the Comcast headend in Roseville through Comcast's Converged Regional <br />Area Network (CRAN or C -RAN). The C -RAN is a regional interconnect used to <br />transport all of Comcast's video, voice and hiternet traffic around the Twin Cities to the <br />various hub locations. This network is used, in the case of PEG programming, to <br />transport services to the Roseville headend and the Shoreview hub for insertion onto the <br />subscriber system serving the member cities. <br />Beyond this, there are fiber I -Net connections from all of the local government members <br />of the NSCC providing programming from their main City Hall locations, as well as fiber <br />connections from the Roseville Schools, St. Anthony Schools and Moundsview Schools. <br />Additionally, the I-IFC I -Net provides both frequent and occasional connectivity from a <br />variety of locations throughout the NSCC area, including: Northwestern University, the <br />Roseville Band Shell, Central Park and other locations. Both remote trucks also tie into <br />the HFC I -Net to provide live signal origination from various locations throughout the <br />NSCC area. <br />Comcast provides access to an interconnect that utilizes infrastructure put in place as part <br />of the C -RAN to provide the NSCC and other local franchise authorities to share video, <br />voice and data services. This interconnect is commonly referred to as the PRISMA <br />network. The equipment used to activate the network has a manufacture's name of <br />PRISMA. Regarding the region -wide interconnect over the PRISMA system, CTV is a <br />primary hub between various access entities throughout the Twin Cities area. This <br />PRISMA interconnect system allows CTV to share programming (both send and receive) <br />with these various entities. It also allows CTV to route around NASA programming, <br />which is first downlinked at Comcast's Roseville headend and then provided through the <br />dedicated CRAN fiber to C'cV for further distribution across the interconnect. <br />A review of these various signal transportation systems revealed the following <br />concerning needs and interests for the future: <br />xv <br />28 <br />