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Exhibit C—Existing Network Facilities The Commission and NSAC provides playback and master control functions from its Roseville offices for all of the Public, Educational and Governmental Access Channels. All of this access signal origination from NSAC'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 cable video traffic around the Twin Cities to the various hub locations. This network is used, in the case of PEG programming, to transport video programming and other programming services to the Roseville headend and the Shoreview hub for insertion onto the subscriber system serving the member cities. Until the Franchise renews, Comcast agrees to continue to provide at no cost to the City the C-RAN for the transport and playback of the Access Channels in the current formats and playback with no degradation of signal quality and, in consultation with the City and Commission, may migrate to future technologies and formats as the system evolves, provided, however, the signal quality shall be the same as sent by the City, Commission, or NSAC without degradation, lag,or delay. Until no later than December 31, 2017, Comcast will continue to make available at no cost to the City the current dark fiber optic-based network that currently offers end-to-end fiber connectivity to the facilities listed on Schedule C-1 locations plus a 6 dark fiber optic link between the Fairview headend and the Shoreview hub, including the nine member cities' city halls and municipal buildings, Ramsey County libraries, school district buildings, and the T.I.E.S. building. In addition, until no later than December 31, 2017, Comcast at no cost to the City will continue to allow governmental and educational facilities throughout the 9-city franchise area to connect back via other non-Comcast fiber optic infrastructure to one or more of the locations on the Comcast dark fiber network for connectivity.for cable-related purposes. NSAC, the Commission and the institutions using the end-to-end fiber network will continue to provide all of the end user equipment required to light up or activate the fiber optic portion of the dark fiber optic-based network. After December 31, 2017, transport of voice, video (except for Access Channel programming) and data shall be governed solely by the parties' Managed Services Agreement under Section 7.1 of the Franchise. Until the Franchise renews, Comcast agrees, at no cost to the City, to continue to provide access to a region wide interconnect that utilizes infrastructure put in place as part of the C-RAN to enable the NSCC and other local franchise authorities to share Access Channel programming. This interconnect is commonly referred to as the PRISMA network because the original equipment used to activate the network has a manufacturer's product name of PRISMA. Regarding the region-wide interconnect over the PRISMA network, the Commission and the NSAC is a primary hub between various access entities throughout the Twin Cities area. This PRISMA interconnect network allows the Commission and the NSAC to share cable Access Channel programming (both send and receive) with these various entities. With the PRISMA equipment having reached its manufacturer's end of life, Comcast will ensure the ability of the City, Commission, and NSAC to share Access Channel programming at the same signal quality as sent by the City, Commission, NSAC, and all other participating municipal entities without degradation, lag, or delay until the Franchise renews. To the extent that another municipal entity is using the PRISMA network, that entity's use (including voice and data) of the PRISMA network shall be governed by that entity's franchise agreement or other agreement with Comcast and shall not be impacted in any way by this Franchise.