Strategy to Splice℠

Growth capital will support expanded development and global go-to-market activities for NBT’s innovative VETRO FiberMap™ mapping platform for fiber optic infrastructure.

June 29th, 2017 (Portland, ME) – NBT Solutions, a nine year old mapping software development company specializing in telecommunications mapping solutions, today announced the closing of a Seed Round of equity investment. The round was led by the Maine Venture Fund and CEI Ventures, Inc, with major support from the Bangor Angels and the Maine Angels.

We are incredibly excited to be participating in the Broadband Communities Summit May 1-4 in Dallas, TX. This show and this community are very important to us. We brought our beta platform out at the 2015 Summit in Austin, TX. This time last year we were back in Austin to officially launch our VETRO FiberMap platform at the 2016 Summit.

VETRO FiberMap™ and COS Systems announce that the COS Service Zones demand aggregation suite is now fully compatible with the VETRO FiberMap™ fiber network GIS platform, delivering a seamless solution for ISPs seeking industry leading solutions for both demand generation and network infrastructure management.

Portland, ME - March 20^th, 2017 - VETRO FiberMap™, a leading provider of solutions for fiber network mapping and broadband infrastructure management, and COS Systems, makers of broadband survey and demand capture tools and network operations software, today announced that VETRO and COS Service Zones now share data and work in concert, enabling superior network planning, building and ROI.

WISPAPALOOZA will provide attendees with a week-long training session. This session will cover technical training, business strategies, sales and marketing, human resources, and a Fiber Bootcamp (formerly known as Fiber Weekend). Roughly 125 vendors will be in attendance, including VETRO FiberMap™, to display products and services ranging from fiber-optics to infrastructure to software and cloud services. This event will showcase some of the ISP world’s greatest creations. Stop by to learn more about VETRO FiberMap™ or schedule a demo!

Prepare to climb towards increased fiber knowledge as The Mountain Connect Broadband Development Conference contains four topic groupings throughout the event, with a massive range of broadband aspects being covered, including but not limited to fixed wireless, broadband planning, and critical infrastructure. VETRO FiberMap™ is excited to attend Mountain Connect and hopes you will visit us there.

COMMTECH East is a multi-industry ICT event designed for increased content awareness and value. It aims to benefit all sectors of communications within Canada and has a sister show designated COMMTECH West. More than 80 of the communication industry’s leaders from the US and Canada will have displays to exhibit their products over a period of two days. On the other side of the aisle, over 150 companies will be present to view and learn about leading industry products. The VETRO FiberMap™ team will be in attendance and hopes to see you there.

FTTH Europe prides itself on being the largest FTTH conference in the world. If that alone is not enough to convince you, then maybe you should consider the benefits gained by being in attendance. First and foremost, you could meet up with our very own Will Mitchell to learn about VETRO FiberMap™. You could also expand your working network tremendously by interacting with roughly 3,000 participants from 94 countries. On top of that, you would also be in France. What better way to learn about fiber, view some workshops, and enjoy some travel time?

We’ve spent the past two years talking with you, learning from you, and working hard to design a perfect toolbox for you. We have been impressed with your ingenuity, your persistence, and your drive to get things built. No matter how small you are, you are finding ways to rebuild the internet where it is needed and where the big boys won’t invest - from small towns to rural areas, missed markets, and opportunity pockets. For older telephone companies and cable operators keeping things fresh – fibering up your long served local footprints has been fantastic.

The VETRO FiberMap™ team hopes you can join us in attending the FISPALIVE Event Series in downtown Nashville, TN at the Double Tree by Hilton from February 15-17! The conference, titled ‘Hybrid Service Provider Conference - Bringing it to End Users,’ provides the perfect opportunity to expand your network by interacting with some of the leading manufacturers, software providers, and telecom professionals while discovering new products to improve your workflow and increase your network efficiency. Exhibiting at this conference, the VETRO FiberMap™ team will have a table and urges you to drop on by!

Flexible, API-Driven, SaaS Platform provides real-time FTTX network mapping to all departments anytime, anywhere, through any browser.

Portland, ME - December 20^th, 2016 - VETRO FiberMap™, a leading provider of solutions for fiber network mapping and broadband infrastructure management, today announced that MetaLINK Technologies, Inc., a well-established ISP with a growing fiber network in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, has adopted VETRO FiberMap™ as a core business platform for both its fiber and microwave plant records. browser.

“We had [management] systems to do that in the past but they really weren’t designed for this… it was painful… we couldn’t get answers quickly and it was labor intensive to get them. We were always coming up with custom solutions and with VETRO, where their inventory system matches the network, we can very quickly get answers,” applauds Fletcher Kittredge, CEO of GWI.

The FTTH Council of the Americas has announced its annual Fiber Connect convention for 2017! The VETRO FiberMap™ team will be presenting the latest and greatest updates to VETRO FiberMap™ while answering any and all questions directed their way. This is the perfect opportunity to demo VETRO FiberMap™ and to establish partnerships for years to come!

The Broadband Communities Summit hosted by BBC Magazine each year is one of the leading conferences on broadband technology. Attendees come from a wide range of industry backgrounds and have the experience needed to forge the path towards growth through connectivity.

The NTCA RTIME 2017, scheduled for February 5-8 in San Diego, CA, is designed to increase the emergence of new fiber opportunities to support rural growth. RTIME seeks to provide significant insight regarding critical topics relating to their ultimate focus on rural telco growth including business strategies, cybersecurity measures, and fiber planning.

Flexible, API-Driven, SaaS Platform provides real-time FTTX network mapping to all departments anytime, anywhere, through any browser.

Portland, ME - October 4^th, 2016 - VETRO FiberMap™, an innovative provider of solutions for fiber network mapping and broadband infrastructure management, today announced that GWI, a rapidly growing internet service provider (ISP), has adopted VETRO FiberMap™ as a core business platform.

The team here at VETRO FiberMap™ will be offering a complete interface guide for FISPA members on November 10 via webinar. The guide will cover all aspects of the VETRO FiberMap™ functionality in order to further the understanding of both our current and potential users. As this demo is invite-only, we encourage anyone interested in VETRO FiberMap™ to proceed in contacting us.

The Maine Broadband Coalition Summit on October 25 will feature leaders in broadband innovation. Discussions will cover a wide array of topics focusing around broadband access as an influence on economic growth including establishing business opportunities, maintaining political ties, and encouraging community growth.

SmartGig Ohio is a meetup of some of the leading keynote speakers in the connectivity industry. The event takes place on October 11-12 and includes three parts: a demo center, an education and workshop portion, and speeches by entrepreneurs and innovators. This particular event focuses on the expansion of gigabit broadband and the rise of smart cities.

The two day Fiber Weekend held during WISPAPALOOZA connects all of the fiber industry’s active members in a venue within Las Vegas from October 11-13 for a wild ride starting from the creation of a fiber network to more advanced topics that get down to the nitty-gritty. Some of the VETRO FiberMap™ team will be in-house for this event and would love it if you stopped in to learn more about what we do.

The team at VETRO FiberMap™ is pleased to announce that they will be attending the upcoming Fiber for the New Economy conference held October 18-20 in Minneapolis, MN at the Radisson Blu Downtown! Fiber for the New Economy is part of the Economic Development Conference Series and brings together a wide variety of professionals including government officials, economic development professionals, investors, network operators, business leaders, financial institutions, community anchor institutions, electrical cooperatives, and broadband champions! This event will showcase representatives from different aspects of the fiber community and VETRO FiberMap™ will be heading up booth 16 for demos!

Our partners over at FiberPlanIT are hosting a webinar in late August - the 30th to be exact - that will demonstrate their ‘Simulator and Designer’ application. This webinar, entitled Planning and Design for FTTx: Hands-on with FiberPlanIT, will show attendees how to use the application to increase preparation efficiency by decreasing time spent on design by 90% and by lowering deployment cost by 7%! By guiding users through this process, FiberPlanIT will assist in answering the How, Where, and When aspects of network deployment. FiberPlanIT seeks to improve your business case by making it reliable, optimized, and transparent.

The VETRO FiberMap™ team invites you to join us in attending the FISPALIVE Event Series out in Irving, TX this summer at the Westin DFW Airport from July 24-27! FISPALIVE is a platform that was created and structured around thought leadership and growth for the growing broadband and fiber marketplace. FISPALIVE brings together a melting pot of industry leaders, executives, and operators that act as speakers, exhibitors, panelists, and participants. The goal of FISPA is to help businesses discover new growth opportunities through an interactive environment that connects CLECs with suppliers, networks, and capital. For those of you who will be attending FISPALIVE, make sure to drop by and demo VETRO FiberMap™ at booth 4!

After a full year of work with our BETA partners, we launched VETRO FiberMap at the Broadband Communities Summit in Austin, TX in April of this year and the response over just the past two months has been phenomenal! We couldn’t be more excited to join the 2016 FTTH Connect Summit in Nashville next week to continue building on that momentum.

VETRO FiberMap™, an innovative provider of software solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) industry, today announced the availability of the VETRO FiberMap™ Network Mapping Platform, designed specifically to meet the needs of small to mid-sized ISPs and community broadband networks. The solution provides a secure, cloud-based platform that helps ISPs plan, design, cost, build, market, manage, and operate their networks. It delivers real time network mapping to leadership, engineering, marketing and all departments anytime, anywhere through any web browser. Broad functionality and ease-of-use are provided in an affordable and powerful package that fully supports a fiber company from Strategy to Splice℠.

Is Google Earth for Fiber Mapping a blessing or curse? Over the past 15 years of doing GIS business in telco we have seen a major shift off of desktop GIS tools and onto Google Earth. Google bought and launched the Google Earth platform we all now know in 2005, leveraging technology and the Keyhole Markup Language (KML) originally created by Keyhole (fun fact, a CIA funded startup). It became wildly popular for a number of reasons - it’s easy, it’s loaded with imagery and data, it’s fun, it’s gorgeous, it’s flexible, and it’s free!!

VETRO FiberMap will be exhibiting at the ISE Expo (formerly OSP Expo), September 20-22, 2016 in San Antonio, TX. Come see us at booth 242 where we will be offering on site demos of our platform.

VETRO FiberMap will be at the Broadband Communities Summit in Austin, TX from April 4 - 7, 2016. Come see us at booth 311 where we will be rolling out the freshly launched version 2.0 of our platform!!!

Every now and then I find the time to read those copies of The Economist magazine that stack up on my dining room table (yes, I do still read print because I find it is the most convenient way to read magazine articles while traveling). I was piqued by the title on the cover of the March 12th edition….”The Future of Computing”. Because I am in the computing business I decided I should see what my future holds. It turns out the primary question the author’s were trying to answer was what will the computing world look like as the pace of computer hardware advancements slow or level off.