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I I I I I I I t I I I I I II. III. improve. AT&T is responsible for Providing all electronics and materials necessary, route PEG access signals and institutional network signals, free of charge. CABLE SYSTEM DESIGN The upper frequency limit of'the existing cable system in the Quad Cities franckise area will be increased from 450 i'vL,Hz to 870 MHz. This will provide AT&T with additional bandwidth it can use to deliver additional channels of programming (both analog and distal) and other services. AT&T's upgraded system will use a hybr/d fiber-coax/al design. Several fibers will run from a "hub" located in the four-city franchise area to each node. System nodes will serve an average of around 350 homes. No more than four active components (e.g., amplifiers) will be used down line from any node. From each node, coaxial cable will run to subscribers' homes. This particular network architecture should improve system reliability and picture quality. AT&T will activate the bandwidth from 5 MJ-Iz to 40 1M~z for upstream (subscriber to headend) transmissions. In other words, the cable system will be bi-directional. This feature will allow AT&T to offer interactive services, such as high-speed Internet access. System reliability will be ensured by standby power supplies, located throughout the cable system. All power supply locations will be remotely monitored for problems. Motorized generators, not susceptible to commercial power failures, will supply back-up power at the master headend and hub. The cable system will use automatic audio-leveling equipment to correct any volume disparity between analog channels, except over-the-air broadcast stations and channels that are locally processed at the hub serving the member cities. The upgraded cable system will initially have a m/n/mum analog channel capacity of at least 78 channels. Additional bandwidth will be available to provide hundreds of digitaI channels and other services, as they are developed. · AT&T will provide authorized city representatives with the ability to remotely activate the emergency alert system. In the event of an emergency, this capability will permit the city to override the audio and video on ali channels on the cable system that may lawfully be overridden. CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE AT&T must complete and activate the system upgrade (including the institutional network) no later than December 31, 2002. Upgraded portions of the cable system will be activated as nodes are completed. 2 -289-