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