Advantages for Service Providers

• Lower Deployment Cost - extend capital budgets to build more fiber optic network
• Faster time to market - a micro-trenched VIF system is significantly faster to deploy than open trenching providing a faster return on broadband services
• Design flexibility - our approach enables engineers to build networks with up 648 fibers that may be inlaid during construction, or blown or pulled at a later date.
• Rugged product - VDC ‘s two piece, ribbed construction is "zipped" together to protect fiber optic cables against construction, frost and compression damage
• Easy to repair & expand - VDC may be "unzipped" so that micro-channels may be re-entered to expand fiber optic networks.

VIF may be installed with small, highly efficient crews using inexpensive construction equipment which providing fast light-up times and broadband connections with minimal wait.

Municipal Advantages

• Minimal disruption to community - fewer complaints, traffic interruptions and road closures meaning residents, tourists and businesses are not affected by construction delays.
• Fewer inspectors - micro-trenching low infrastructure impact minimizes demands on critical municipal resources.
• Low impact on infrastructure - ideal for dense urban, heritage & tourist areas as VIF does not involve a 30" trench through roadways or sidewalks - increasing their life expectancy.
• Route flexibility - networks may be conveniently designed in roadways, along the back of a curb or trenched in the boulevard -tailored to specific municipal requirements.
• Increased Safety - less risk of hitting other utilities and lower liability issue as there are no open trenches with micro-trenching.
• Esthetically Pleasing - micro-trenching's thin slot cut when appropriately reinstated means completed roadway, sidewalk and boulevard installations are virtually invisible.

The TeraSpan VIF system is eligible for loans granted under the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Telecommunications Program (RDTP) and is included on the accepted materials list in the underground conduit section.