Tyto Athene Partners with Tellabs to Launch ACUITY LAN Solution

by | Nov 10, 2020 | News Release

ACUITY LAN tactical, temporary and transportable communications

ACUITY® LAN solution offers compute, storage, security, communications, powering and networking in a compact, ruggedized tactical and transportable form-factor.

Carrollton, Texas. November 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Tellabs, the leading provider of Passive Optical Network (PON) solutions, and Tyto Athene, full-service systems integrator and inventor of ACUITY® by Tyto Athene, is excited to announce partnership with Tellabs on the launch of the ACUITY® LAN solution.

Tyto Athene’s ACUITY Micro Data Center was developed to deliver mission-critical edge processing, analytics and unified communications in a turn-key solution that only weighs 30 pounds. With the addition of Tellabs® Optical LAN (OLAN), the ACUITY LAN solution is able to scale its tactical transportable network in minutes.

The ACUITY LAN is an edge solution that leverages Tellabs’ OLAN to ensure network readiness in a two person carry form-factor. ACUITY LAN provides a network that is easy to transport, set-up, teardown, power-on and provide a multitude of services.  ACUITY LAN spans long distances and allows remote powering of ONT and Power over Ethernet in a reliable, secure, ruggedized system. ACUITY LAN includes Tellabs FlexSym® Optical Line Terminal One (OLT1), Tellabs FlexSym® Optical Network Terminal 248 (ONT248) and ONT Power/Splitter which provides up to 900 feet of typical low voltage or up to 1.2 miles of digital power. ACUITY LAN is ruggedized with harsh environment connectors and crated in a custom Pelican transport case with backpack mounted fiber spool.

Before ACUITY, setting up communications and IT in adverse conditions required truckloads of equipment and up to 20 or more personnel. Tactical teams were often forced to use ad-hoc solutions that were not interoperable, leaving even more issues to resolve – taking hours or even days to operationalize. By creating ACUITY LAN, Tyto Athene and Tellabs are able to provide compute, storage, security, communications, wired plus wireless connectivity and networking power built to support teams at the tactical edge and are able to re-use the equipment in multiple events or training due to mobility of the solution.

Optical LAN has been deployed by many government agencies because it simplifies the network, eliminates security vulnerabilities and speeds IT productivity. Now through this partnership with Tyto Athene, we are excited to bring these same benefits into the tactical transportable networking,” said Tom Parisi, Vice-President Government Sales for Tellabs.

We are excited to be growing our capabilities with our long-time partners at Tellabs” said Fabian Plath, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Tyto Athene. “For us, it made perfect sense to build on our expertise of deploying PON to DoD and civilian agencies and extending this technology to the edge by integrating it with our ACUITY Micro Data Center. We see a lot of potential for this secure, quickly deployable LAN solution. Whether it is being able to enable localized communication and running applications in DIL, Disconnected, Intermittent, Limited bandwidth environments, or empowering first responders to have maximum capabilities at their disposal, the ACUITY LAN is the right solution.”

Join our upcoming joint webinar to learn how ACUITY LAN provides compute, storage, security, communications, wireless, powering and Optical LAN all in compact, tactical and transportable ruggedized carrier. You can click here to register for the 30-minute webcast on November 18th.

You can also access additional details about the Tyto Athene and Tellabs joint offerings by visiting our Fiber Innovations website resources.

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About ACUITY MDC
ACUITY Micro Data Center combines best-in-class technology with mobility and efficiency in a single form factor. This rugged, agile solution provides 10 credit card servers, WIFI, and LTE, mission-critical edge processing and analytics capabilities, data security, and unified communications in an easy to use, turn-key solution that only weighs 30 pounds.

ACUITY’s versatility and processing power can be utilized as a portable standalone data center or as an extension of your infrastructure on the edge. Either implementation provides key data center capabilities such as, identity management, session migration, load balancing and failover, micro/hyper-segmentation, virtual machine deployment, container deployment, private/public cloud implementation, and active directory services. To learn more, please visit www.gotyto.com/acuity.

About Tellabs
Tellabs is leading the future of networking with access solutions for today, poised to deliver modern high-performance solutions for the future. Fast and secure access has never been in more demand for enterprise and government connectivity. Tellabs’ sole focus is to deliver simple, secure, scalable and stable access to optimize network performance. Tellabs has delivered carrier-class access solutions to service providers for more than two decades. We are now expanding that leadership by defining the future of enterprise networking that connects the campus, buildings and inspires people. For more information, please visit www.tellabs.com.

 Media Contact
John Hoover
+1-707-206-1751
john.hoover@tellabs.com

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John Hoover, Tellabs Marketing Director
John Hoover
Director of Marketing
John Hoover is a Marketing Director at Tellabs and 2024 Board Chair of the Association for Promoting Optical LAN (APOLAN). Over the past 20 years, John has influenced industry milestones such as early passive optical network deployments, video implementations, wireless and more recently enterprise Passive Optical LAN adoption.