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AT&T PEG Communit TV v v' I' y Oeriew AT&T U-verseSm TV form of additional streams of video and/or on an archived or"on-demand" basis. AT&T is currently offering its AT&T U-verse ��LIV@ PEC7 StP@a�'1'1S" I TV service, an IP-based (Internet Protocol) ' video entertainment experience, in 11 Municipalities will need to provide the PEG �I markets and plans to introduce service in content in a signa� form that is compatibie I more markets in the coming months and with AT&T's U-verse TV platform. This �, year. means that the city will need to place II equipment at the PEG origination source AT&T U-verse TV offers customers a that "captures" the live feed (i.e., from the � compelling variety of N and Internet city's existing PEG channel) and performs I packages to customize their entertainment an analog to digital conversion to re-encode experience. AT&T customers can choose the content in MS Windows Media 9 or from five basic TV packages — U100, U200, Higher. U300 and U400 — and a unique family- friendly programming package, U-family, The city will then need to deliver the properly which includes the best family-oriented TV encoded PEG content stream to the Internet channels. and/or directly to a designated point of presence on AT&T's network. AT&T will AT&T's service also includes video-on- then "link" to that content source and carry it demand titles for all ages as well as offering over AT&T's U-verse N service. AT&T a variety of flexible HD, movie, sports, and also will provide the city with non-exclusive Spanish language programming options. access to a channel number on AT&T's programming guide. Internet Sourced PEG Upon selection of this channel number, an AT&T U-verse TV subscriber will activate AT&T is committed to carrying Public, the PEG application using the remote Educational and Governmental (PEG) control and access a list of the various programming over its AT&T U-verse N streams of PEG content made available by a service. Because AT&T's U-verse service is given municipality. based on IP, which is fundamentally the common language of the Internet, AT&T U- In some instances AT&T may elect to place verse TV allows AT&T to develop a submenu beneath the channel number applications that can integrate content from containing all of the individual programming the Internet; such as a "stream" of live video, selections as described by the municipality. and deliver them directiy to the end user's TV via AT&T's U-verse Set Top Box. The following is a list of the technical attributes of AT&T's Internet Sourced PEG AT&T will use this capability to deliver PEG service: programming. Delivering PEG in this manner will enable cities to take advantage ■ The encoding format is Microsoft MS of many of the IP-based video capabilities. Windows Media 9 or greater (Windows For example, AT&T's PEG solution wili Media 9 or higher) at a data rate of 1.0 Mbps potentially enable cities to make community per stream/channel. Transport may be access programming more accessible via obtained from AT&T and/or a third party the public Internet as well as being available transport provider, or in some instances to AT&T U-verse subscribers on their Ns. could be derived from existing facilities AT&T's PEG solution will not only allow depending upon available bandwidth. AT&T U-verse subscribers to view existing ■ Live streams of PEG content will be PEG channels made available by the city, listed/defined in the U-verse TV but also will enable cities to potentially make programming guide as noted above. AT&T available additional content either in the