[802.3_EPOC] Visit to Comcast headend in Minneapolis

["Salinger, Jorge" <Jorge_Salinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Study Group Colleagues,

As I had mentioned in previous weekly calls and via Email, we are organizing a tour of one of our headends in Minneapolis around the time of our next Interim meeting. So far we have 23 people registered. Please see the list below. If your name is not included, but you would like to attend, please fill out the brief questionnaire located at http://doodle.com/v75wyuhxakwvqmh7. Please don't forget to click on "SAVE" before closing the browser.

A couple of additional important points regarding this tour:

1. Tour participants MUST sign an NDA. I will send the NDA shortly to those that sign-up for the tour. Please note that we can't make any exceptions, and won't be able to admit anyone that has not signed the NDA.
2. Absolutely NO PICTURES are allowed in the headend. 
3. Given the schedule poll we did, the tour will take place on Monday before the meeting, from 4-6 PM CT.
4. We will be driving from the hotel, departing at 3:30 PM. 
5. We will be driving on several cars, so please let me know if you will have a car in which you could take others. We will need a couple more cars than what we have so far.
6. The facility we will visit is a live headend, serving live customers. Because of that, we will have to observe the following:
   • No cellphones and/or any cellular devices are allowed (must be turned of to avoid any RF interference)
   • No touching of any equipment, cabling, etc.
   • No leaning against any equipment, racks, walls, etc.
   • Hands in pockets all the time.
   • As we walk between racks please maintain sufficient distance with equipment and cabling on both sides to avoid the chance of disconnecting anything.
   • No chewing gum.
7. Because of security and confidentiality reason, we will provide the address of the headend we will be visiting only to those coming to the tour after the NDA is signed.

Hope this is productive for those that want to attend. We hope it is a fun activity as well.

Regards,

Jorge

List of registered tour participants:

1. Marek Hajduczenia
2. Edward Boyd
3. Matt Schmitt
4. David Barr
5. Mark Laubach
6. Charaf HANNA
7. Hal Roberts
8. Rick Li
9. Joe Solomon
10. Michel Allard
11. Geoff Thompson
12. Kevin Noll
13. Peter Wolff
14. Howard Frazier
15. Bill Powell
16. Shaul Shulman
17. Duane Remein
18. Hesham ElBakoury
19. Alan M. Brown
20. John Ulm
21. Andy Boyce
22. Amarildo Vieira
23. Steve Shellhammer

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