Franchisee shall operate, maintain, construct, and extend the cable system so as to provide high-quality signals and reliable delivery of one-way and two-way cable services for all cable programming services throughout LFA. The cable system shall meet or exceed any and all technical performance standards of the FCC, the National Electrical Safety Code, the National Electric Code and any other applicable federal laws and the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to the extent not in conflict with federal law and regulations, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Franchisee's cable system, which utilizes portions of the FTTP network, shall meet or exceed the following requirements:
A. 
The system shall be designed, constructed, and maintained with an analog and digital passband of at least 860 MHz.
B. 
The system shall be designed, constructed, and maintained as an active two-way system that allocates sufficient portion of said bandwidth to deliver reliable two-way cable services.
Franchisee shall design its cable system so that it may be interconnected with other cable systems in the franchise area. Interconnection of systems may be made by direct cable connection, microwave link, satellite, or other appropriate methods.
Franchisee shall comply with the emergency alert system ("EAS") requirements of the FCC in order that emergency messages may be distributed over the system.
At the national or regional level, two super headends ("SHE") shall serve as the points of national content aggregation. Initially all content will be encoded into MPEG2 streams and transported optically to a video hub office ("VHO"). The VHO serves as the metro or local point of aggregation and will be located within Philadelphia and serving Southeastern Pennsylvania including Montgomery County. It is here that off-air and PEG channels are combined with the broadcast video coming from the SHE. Those optical signals aggregated at the VHO are then transported to video serving offices ("VSO") for final transport to the customer location. The VSO is a location within the central office containing FTTP equipment. The key function of the VSO is to combine broadcast cable television into the voice and high-speed data FTTP network. At the customer location, the optical video signal is demultiplexed and converted to an electrical signal, which meets video industry standards for cable services. Standard home wiring practices, using coax cables, as well as alternative media, shall distribute the signal to cable ready TVs and/or set top boxes.