Specifications include, but are not limited to: NDSU has been in a long-term contract with a local CATV provider for video entertainment services. That contract expires at the end of June 2016 and cannot be renewed. The purpose of this RFP is for the University to enter into a new arrangement for video entrainment services that will provide high quality, reliable and enhanced television services to the University's residence halls and faculty and administrative offices. It is NDSU's intent to position itself to take advantage of opportunities and technologies in video communications previously unavailable to the NDSU community. These include high-definition (HD), video on demand (VoD), and pay-per-view (PPV). The distribution will be over University-owned and leased fiber optic and coaxial cabling using, to the extent feasible, existing head-end equipment, fiber-coax nodes, distribution amplifiers, splitters, taps, etc. The plan is to utilize existing equipment wherever possible.
