What is the expected long-term driver of significant value for the distributed compute solution in the United States
t on more of our sites, as carriers deploy massive MIMO, and utilize DSS, or and then, any other tools they have at their disposal to optimize their network performance and efficiency.
In addition, as 5G and the surrounding ecosystem develops in the US, and is network technology continues to advance throughout our international footprint. We expect to have compelling opportunities to extend our core value proposition, into new related creative product and service offerings to expand our total addressable market. One of the key trends driving these opportunities is the continued convergence of wireless and wireline networks. We believe that this convergence along with increasing digitalization, network virtualization, and the agility of cloud-native software-defined services will lead to increasing demand for distributed, interconnected global edge compute processing.
As a result, the first mile of cloud on-ramps at this edge should become a more critical component of our customer's network architecture, and notably, this age is exactly where our exclusive communications, real estate assets are located. To capitalize on the opportunities this network evolution is likely to present, we are focused on developing communications infrastructure business models that augment the value of our existing assets, expand our revenue base beyond traditional tenants, and enhance our leadership role in the wireless ecosystem. At the highest level, our goal is to selectively extend our digital infrastructure core capabilities to further encapsulate neutral hosted wireless connectivity, transport, and compute functions as part of our comprehensive ATC platform. We can then offer tenants an integrated suite of complementary solutions to fit well within their ever more complex network designs.
Within this framework, we intend to remain disciplined in terms of how we deploy capital and believe ventures with select partners could be the most efficient way to develop this platform extension. We expect our investments to focus on business models with several key elements: first, contracted long term revenue commitments from Tier 1 customers.; Second, increasing ROIC with multi-tenancy, and multi-service offerings requiring modest ongoing maintenance capex; third, operating leverage characteristics similar to towers, we focus on our fixed costs; and for synergies and adjacencies with existing ATC assets and skillsets. So that General backdrop in mind, let me dive deeper into a few specific areas where we are currently focusing our efforts with one example in the United States, and one offshore. In the United States, as 5G deployments accelerate, we expect the proliferation of lower latency applications, and incremental cloud-based customer demand for application level and network compute functions at the edge.
There are two distinct solutions within this emerging ecosystem that we are paying attention to. Distributed compute, and mobile edge compute. We believe that these two offerings will develop at different timelines and will allow us to provide differentiated valued propositions for our customers. On a distributed computing side, enterprise workloads continue to move to the public cloud.
And a growing near-term market segment is the use of on or off-prem private cloud computing is a hybrid solution. Small and medium-sized businesses are often willing to move legacy workloads to more responsive, proximate, cost-effective data centers, and we believe that many data centers at some of our macro towers can represent optimal locations for these installations. We have started to deploy micro data center facilities at select tower sites, and have seen early indications of solid demand in collaboration with partners like Flexential. In the near-term, this solution enables us to develop operational excellence around the technology and iron out the kinks on a small scale.
With that said, we don't necessarily think this use case alone will be the long-term driver of significant value for us. We expect true 5G mobile edge compute solutions to represent 
t on more of our sites, as carriers deploy massive MIMO, and utilize DSS, or and then, any other tools they have at their disposal to optimize their network performance and efficiency.
In addition, as 5G and the surrounding ecosystem develops in the US, and is network technology continues to advance throughout our international footprint. We expect to have compelling opportunities to extend our core value proposition, into new related creative product and service offerings to expand our total addressable market. One of the key trends driving these opportunities is the continued convergence of wireless and wireline networks. We believe that this convergence along with increasing digitalization, network virtualization, and the agility of cloud-native software-defined services will lead to increasing demand for distributed, interconnected global edge compute processing.
As a result, the first mile of cloud on-ramps at this edge should become a more critical component of our customer's network architecture, and notably, this age is exactly where our exclusive communications, real estate assets are located. To capitalize on the opportunities this network evolution is likely to present, we are focused on developing communications infrastructure business models that augment the value of our existing assets, expand our revenue base beyond traditional tenants, and enhance our leadership role in the wireless ecosystem. At the highest level, our goal is to selectively extend our digital infrastructure core capabilities to further encapsulate neutral hosted wireless connectivity, transport, and compute functions as part of our comprehensive ATC platform. We can then offer tenants an integrated suite of complementary solutions to fit well within their ever more complex network designs.
Within this framework, we intend to remain disciplined in terms of how we deploy capital and believe ventures with select partners could be the most efficient way to develop this platform extension. We expect our investments to focus on business models with several key elements: first, contracted long term revenue commitments from Tier 1 customers.; Second, increasing ROIC with multi-tenancy, and multi-service offerings requiring modest ongoing maintenance capex; third, operating leverage characteristics similar to towers, we focus on our fixed costs; and for synergies and adjacencies with existing ATC assets and skillsets. So that General backdrop in mind, let me dive deeper into a few specific areas where we are currently focusing our efforts with one example in the United States, and one offshore. In the United States, as 5G deployments accelerate, we expect the proliferation of lower latency applications, and incremental cloud-based customer demand for application level and network compute functions at the edge.
 There are two distinct solutions within this emerging ecosystem that we are paying attention to. Distributed compute, and mobile edge compute. We believe that these two offerings will develop at different timelines and will allow us to provide differentiated valued propositions for our customers. On a distributed computing side, enterprise workloads continue to move to the public cloud.
And a growing near-term market segment is the use of on or off-prem private cloud computing is a hybrid solution. Small and medium-sized businesses are often willing to move legacy workloads to more responsive, proximate, cost-effective data centers, and we believe that many data centers at some of our macro towers can represent optimal locations for these installations. We have started to deploy micro data center facilities at select tower sites, and have seen early indications of solid demand in collaboration with partners like Flexential. In the near-term, this solution enables us to develop operational excellence around the technology and iron out the kinks on a small scale.
With that said, we don't necessarily think this use case alone will be the long-term driver of significant value for us. We expect true 5G mobile edge compute solutions to represent 