Nonprofit groups seeking public access to information about cable headend sites...
Nonprofit groups seeking public access to information about cable headend sites in a white spaces database, seek to “trivialize the need for enhanced security for cable broadband facilities,” the NCTA said in an FCC filing. Posted Thursday to docket 04-186,…
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it opposed a filing by the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition that had said the commission shouldn’t grant the NCTA’s petition for reconsideration to make the data private. “The headend is the point of origination and processing for most of the signals received by cable operators from external content providers, local exchange carriers, the Internet and other networks” and often “a distribution hub for the fiber nodes closest to the headend,” the NCTA said. “There is no question that communications networks are considered ‘critical infrastructure’ and that federal homeland security directives require greater protections for critical communications infrastructure."