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upon request during normal business hours or within one (1) hour of a page to the on -call technician outside normal business hours. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "normal business hours" means Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., excluding holidays. 7.1.3 The I -Net shall provide 450 MHz of activated capacity with no less than 156 MHz of bandwidth upstream and 210 MHz of bandwidth downstream to the HFC I -Net Sites. Such capacity, and any future activated capacity on the portion of the I -Net made available to the Commission, the City and/or I -Net Users, shall be furnished free of charge to the Commission, the City and/or I -Net Users. The I -Net shall have fiber introduced into it to limit amplifier cascades to no more than an average of four (44), and a maximum of seven (7), excluding the Node, for the HFC I -Net Sites. 7.1.4 The Grantee shall connect the HFC I -Net Sites to the Institutional Network, at no cost to the City, the Commission or I -Net Users. Other governmental, public, or educational institutions subsequently designated by the City or the Commission shall be connected to the I -Net via coaxial cable, free of charge, if such institutions are located 500 feet or less from the existing I -Net, or if such designated institutions agree to reimburse the Grantee for its Actual Costs in excess of the cost of the first 500 feet of such installation, including the cost of any additional necessary equipment, such as fiber, node(s), etc., necessary to provide I -Net service. Such additional sites shall have an amplifier cascade as agreed to between the Grantee and the designated institution. 7.1.5 The I -Net shall be segmented to allow narrowcasting of signals within most municipal boundaries. The Grantee shall, at no cost to the City, the Commission or I -Net Users, provide and install all equipment necessary to achieve the required level of segmentation. 7.1.6 I -Net equipment at the hub related to the Institutional Network shall be connected to a gas powered generator capable of providing continuous electrical power, or equivalent, and to an uninterruptible power supply that both conditions commercial power and provides for zero transfer time between normal commercial power and hub/headend back-up generators. 7.1.7 All I -Net distribution system power supplies shall have the standby capability of providing at least three (3) hours of backup power for all I -Net Nodes and other active devices throughout the I -Net. Each power supply shall have status monitoring installed in it. Prior to battery failure, the Grantee shall connect I -Net Node power supplies to portable generators capable of producing adequate electrical current until commercial power is restored. 7.1.8 Pilot generators shall be installed at the end of mutually agreed upon I -Net cascades carrying any transmissions. Pilot generators shall be installed at the end 37