TRAVERSE ENGINEERING
POWERED BY TRI™
Company → About

Built by an engineer who's been on the wrong end of a redesign

Traverse Engineering exists because fiber route assumptions fail in predictable ways — and most of them can be caught before engineering starts if you know where to look.

The founder

Travis Canfield

I've spent 15+ years on both sides of the fiber route problem — designing OSP networks from scratch, managing capital infrastructure programs at Duke Energy, and advising ISPs and municipalities on BEAD-funded broadband deployments across the country.

The pattern I kept seeing was the same regardless of project size or client type: routes would pass through feasibility, get handed to engineering, and then the real constraints would surface. ROW nobody had mapped. A utility crossing that made the obvious path unworkable. Span geometry that looked fine on a map but wouldn't clear in the field. Each one a change order, a schedule slip, a budget hit.

TRI™ is the validation layer I wished existed on every project I worked. A systematic process for surfacing those assumptions before engineering starts — when fixing them costs a fraction of what they cost mid-design.

I founded Traverse Engineering in 2023 to make that validation accessible to any team building fiber infrastructure, regardless of whether they have an in-house engineering staff or are managing their first major build.

Work with Travis → LinkedIn Profile
Travis Canfield
Founder & Director of Engineering
15+
Years OSP engineering experience
$500K+
Avg. CAPEX savings per project (25–70% reduction)
U.S. Army Veteran IBM AI Practitioner FTTx Design BEAD Strategy Federal Permitting Duke Energy Alumni
Experience

The background behind every TRI report

Each TRI report is informed by direct hands-on experience across the full fiber infrastructure stack — from OSP design to capital program management to federal compliance.

⚡

Duke Energy — Transmission PM

Led 20+ capital infrastructure projects ($1M–$10M each) across regulated utility environments. 95% on-time delivery rate. Direct experience with the cost of late-stage redesigns.

📡

Nexius — Senior OSP Design Engineer

Designed OSP fiber and small cell networks producing construction-ready packages, BOMs, and permit submittals. Reduced design turnaround by ~20% through workflow standardization.

🌐

Traverse Engineering — Founder

Founded and leads Traverse Engineering. Delivered FTTx feasibility studies, network topology optimization, and permitting strategies. Advisor to BEAD-funded programs.

🏛️

Federal Permitting Specialist

Managed complex permitting portfolios: ROW acquisition, NEPA coordination, environmental reviews, utility attachments, railroad crossings, and municipal approvals.

🤖

IBM AI Practitioner

Certified in applied AI for business optimization and decision support. AI-assisted data analysis, workflow automation, and risk modeling applied to infrastructure planning.

🎖️

U.S. Army — MOS 31U

Communications and network support in operational environments. Developed leadership, operational risk management, and mission-critical execution skills that apply directly to infrastructure programs.

How we work

What Traverse Engineering stands for

Assumptions should be explicit, not hidden

Every fiber route is built on a set of assumptions. The projects that fail are the ones where those assumptions were never written down, tested, or challenged. TRI makes them explicit so the whole team is working from the same reality.

Advisory honesty over optimistic reports

TRI reports flag real problems, not just the ones that are easy to acknowledge. If a route has a serious constructability issue, you'll know — with enough time to fix it before it becomes a crisis.

Speed that matches infrastructure pace

3 to 10 days, not 6 to 8 weeks. Pre-engineering validation only helps if it fits in the actual project timeline — not the theoretical one. TRI is built to move at the pace projects actually move.

Engineering credibility, not marketing claims

Every TRI report is grounded in actual OSP engineering methodology — the same way of looking at a route that 15 years in the field produces. Not a checklist. Not an algorithm. Informed engineering judgment.

Building the infrastructure that powers the AI economy — one validated route at a time

The data center buildout happening right now is unlike anything the infrastructure industry has seen. Hyperscale campuses going up in months. Dark fiber corridors being planned under extreme time pressure. Billions of dollars riding on routes that haven't been independently validated.

Traverse Engineering's role is to be the validation layer that keeps those projects from hitting avoidable walls — so the engineers, developers, and operators building this infrastructure can move fast without the redesign risk that comes from skipping the hard questions.

Colorado-based. Nationally trusted. Built for the long game.

Ready to work with Traverse Engineering?

Submit your route or reach out directly. Every project starts with a conversation about what you're building and where the real risk is.

Request TRI Report → Email Travis directly