VETRO Cares: Community Planners

VETRO Cares

Community Broadband Package

VETRO wants to accelerate community initiatives to bring high speed broadband to residents and businesses with our industry-leading combination of software, services and data, tailor-made for public sector project planning.

To embrace this challenge, we have established our Digital Divide Solutions Practice, led by Vice President of Broadband Strategy Brian Mefford. This arm of VETRO is focused on empowering local governments, non-profits, and network planners, owners and operators that are seeking or have received public funding by equipping them with the technology solutions needed to deploy critically important fiber optic network infrastructure successfully.

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More Than Just Broadband Mapping

More than just broadband mapping, VETRO FiberMap is your ultimate broadband planning platform. Easy to use, efficient and built on a GIS mapping interface to enable unprecedented flexibility and insight, VETRO is the smart choice for determining network asset presence, transforming large sets of local data into executable network plans, and creating a ‘shovel-ready’ plan to get locals living, working and learning from home in our ‘new normal.’   
"One key thing we learned in our broadband deployment journey is that it is critical to bring your fiber management system into play at the very outset of the project. Our fiber management platform has become the information hub of the entire operation."
Jeremiah Sloan
Jeremiah SloanFiber Assets Manager, Craighead Electric Cooperative Corporation

Overview What’s Included?

Platform

6 Month VETRO FiberMap Platform Subscription

Support

Ongoing Platform User Support for the Term of Service

Data

Relevant State and Federal Data Sets

Training

Initial Platform Training and Setup for a Stress-Free Start

Planning Services

Options to Utilize Auto-Design and High Level Network Planning Services

Design

Ability to Generate Unlimited Network Design Scenarios to Compare Costs

Schedule a time with Brian Mefford, VETRO’s Vice President of Broadband Strategy to get started on the road to shovel-ready.

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Why VETRO FiberMap?

Elevate Community Efforts to Shovel Ready Design

Communities that have taken the initial steps towards creating a local broadband strategy are invited to use VETRO to take their efforts to the next level. The VETRO platform will enable tangible network planning and design that will support the issuance of RFPs, the pursuit of grant funding and will enable a higher level of informed stakeholder collaboration. 

Gain Visibility and Insight

VETRO provides a map-based visualization interface that enables real-time communication, collaboration, and reporting across key stakeholder entities. 

The Support You Need to Succeed

Broadband initiatives are complex; VETRO packages easy-to-use software with the support services and state and federal data to help bring plans to life.

Cooperation, Collaboration and Competitiveness

With simple “point and click” usability, VETRO enables the creation of community network and asset inventory, provides a platform for identifying and understanding broadband gaps, and a means to create plans and network designs for a competitive position to pursue funding. 

Creating Local Opportunity

Great broadband creates great opportunities for the people living and working in your community. VETRO helps you get connected faster and more efficiently to maximize return.

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VETRO Cares Program

The VETRO Cares Community Broadband Solution

The VETRO Team created the VETRO Cares program to provide planning and design tools that can help accelerate broadband expansion in local communities throughout the US.

VETRO Cares extends the value of the core VETRO FiberMap platform, the same platform used nationwide by ISPs, Engineering Firms, professional broadband planners and others, to local broadband initiatives.  At a basic level, anything that a local committee was doing in Google Earth for mapping and asset inventory or in spreadsheets for cost estimation can be done in the VETRO Fiber Management platform.  And moving this data and work into a cloud-based platform provides a virtual table and map for all stakeholders to collaborate around.

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VETRO Cares: State Agencies

For state broadband agencies, VETRO Cares is a platform of record, intelligently mapping and inventorying the state’s existing broadband infrastructure and coverage gaps.   along with data layers the agency needs to get a clear picture of their state’s progress in bridging the digital divide. Beyond simple mapping, VETRO offers state broadband offices a publishing engine for maps of served and unserved areas, as well as a collaboration and reporting platform that unlocks  transparency and pathways to accountability around grantmaking programs.

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VETRO Cares: Community Planners

For communities engaged in broadband initiatives, VETRO Cares offers the VETRO FiberMap fiber management platform, paired with data packages, local support networks and the training and guidance to go from vision to lit fiber like experts. This program is being rolled out in managed groups, with the first rollout being in VETRO’s home state of Maine and launched in November, 2021.  VETRO will be bringing the program to other states over the course of 2021 and running calls for participation. If you have a community broadband project in need of a mapping platform, reach out to VETRO now and we will consider selective deployments outside of the managed groups.

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