Laserfiche WebLink
Grantee with respect to PEG access. <br />8. Government Access Capital Grant. Grantee will provide to Commission within <br />180 days after the effective date of the Franchise a capital grant of Two Hundred <br />Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) for use towards the purchase of equipment for the <br />municipal datanetwork, government access programming or such other capital needs <br />as may be determined by Commission. This grant shall be over and above the grants <br />set forth in Section 6.4 of the Franchise and shall not be recovered from the PEG fee <br />referenced in such Section 6.4 or otherwise separately itemized on Subscribers' bills. <br />SECTION 7. <br />INSTITUTIONAL NETWORK (I -NET) PROVISIONS <br />AND RELATED COMMITMENTS <br />1. Institutional Network Capacity. <br />a. Grantee shall provide an Institutional Network which connects designated <br />institutions within the Ramsey/Washington System and permits the <br />transmission of video and data between such connected sites. Use of the I - <br />Net by institutions will be limited to the telecommunications or video needs <br />of such institutions. The institutions may not sell or resell services to third <br />parties. However, the institutions may provide services to themselves which <br />the Grantee otherwise sells to others (for example, an institution may provide <br />Internet service to itself that the Grantee sells to others). <br />b. The I -Net will be designed and constructed to provide 450 MHz capacity and <br />no less than 56 channels (25 upstream channels and 31 downstream <br />channels), all in accordance with the Proposal. The I -Net will consist of no <br />less than 16 Nodes and in no event shall amplifier cascades in the I -Net <br />exceed 10 amplifiers. All I -Net Nodes will be connected by optical fiber to <br />the headend and hubs. The I -Net will be segmented into no less than 16 <br />discrete segments associated with individual Nodes in order to permit <br />narrowcast of video and data within municipal boundaries. <br />C. The I -Net will incorporate a six (6) count fiber to the Node throughout the <br />network. An additional ten (10) fibers will be connected from the headend <br />to each Node for the purpose of supporting redundancy and the facilitation <br />of end -to -end fiber connections within the institutional community. In the <br />event that the Grantee seeks to deploy wavelength division multiplexing or <br />similar technology within the fiber optic portions of the I -NET, the Grantee <br />may present to the Commission a plan to reduce the number of required fiber <br />cables to the Node. Such plan must describe the planned technology and <br />detail any I -Net performance changes which will result. The Commission <br />_ must approve any such plan in writing prior to any reduction in the number <br />22 <br />