Another element that might concern some companies, according to Cable Digital News, is a "monitor application" that the cable company uses to control how devices use processing resources.
After the meeting, Downing Street said Mr Cameron had asked the Education Secretary Michael Gove to examine arrangements for confronting extreme views in schools, Business Secretary Vince Cable to monitor universities and Justice Secretary Chris Grayling to do the same in prisons.
That can make a desktop PC monitor an easy platform for keeping up with the cable TV news channels all day--or the baseball game you're missing because you're rushing to make a deadline.
The new law will widen the agency's monitoring to include all crossborder cable traffic (from the current limitations on the FRA to monitor only military radio communications).
Once new equipment is in place to relieve network congestion, Santa Monica plans to Webcast its Emmy award-winning cable TV programming, a move that will allow city employees to monitor the channel unobtrusively from their desktops as they work.