The new, contemporary Chantilly office gives VT Group greater access to top employees and much-needed growth and space flexibility for continued expansion of the company’s service offerings. The new headquarters provides additional office, training facility, expanded laboratory and warehouse space.

Tellabs says its optical LAN (OLAN) solution was installed to showcase a simple, secure, and less expensive alternative to traditional copper-based LANs. The OLAN system provides a converged design for all modern enterprise IT systems, such as VT Group’s IP video delivery, unified communications (Skype for Business), Electronic Safety & Security (ESS), Audio & Visual (AV), Voice over IP (VoIP), and extensive Wi-Fi wireless.

“Knowing that fiber-based LANs are more secure and then doing the analysis that showed we would save thousands of dollars by deploying Optical LAN made this a winning decision,” said John Cook, VT Group President of Enterprise IT. “At the new Chantilly headquarters, the Optical LAN system supports all production systems as well as the Converged Technology Integration Lab where VT Group demonstrates modern high performance LANs, stages customer solutions, conducts product evaluations, and performs systems integration and interoperability testing. We also plan on deploying Tellabs OLAN in our other VT Group facilities across the country.”

The optical LAN’s centralized intelligence and management assures consistent security policies and procedures for VT Group across the entire LAN. The fiber cabling infrastructure is inherently more secure than copper cabling, contends Tellabs. Also, the OLAN’s thin client deep network devices (called an Optical Network Terminal or ONT) do not store configuration information nor user information, nor do they even have physical management access.

“VT Group is Tellabs’ 2015 Partner of the Year, and understands how OLAN benefits the IT industry, the end-customers, and their new worldwide headquarters,” concludes Thomas C. Ruvarac, Tellabs VP Global Sales and Marketing. “VT Group knows through first-hand experience that OLAN is a secure military-grade IT infrastructure that will dramatically improve VT Group’s cybersecurity posture.”