Executive Summary
This document presents a tiered classification structure to provide cable operators with a framework in which to categorize facilities and critical infrastructure, establish availability expectations, and to define performance levels for the cable industry.
Scope
This SCTE standard defines classes of critical facilities along with expected performance availability across five classes of structures thus creating a common nomenclature for critical facilities.
Benefits
A key benefit of this document is the creation of a common framework that can be utilized to translate, identify and classify an operator’s critical facilities. Facility classification allows for a basis of design checklist review for designers. engineers and business teams. The promotion of an increased level of consistency in both the design and performance of an operator’s critical facilities are in an effort to improve overall reliability, resiliency and redundancy from both an industry and individual cable operator’s perspective.
Intended Audience
The intended audience of this standard includes critical facility designers, operators, and engineers.