In the legacy copper based LANs, you have LAN equipment on every floor of every building requiring physical monitoring, provisioning, maintenance and the IT staff required weeks of education training to be comfortable with the programming of moves, adds, changes (MACs) and other network modifications. Optical LAN simplifies the aggregation, distribution and access with less equipment and less cabling, thus less IT staff touches. The passive portions of this network of course require zero attention from the IT staff. Tellabs Optical LAN MACs can be executed at the centrally located EMS workstation with preexisting global profiles or the MACs can happen dynamically with the aid of higher level network access control (NAC) protocols. Because of this simplified network architecture there is less training and no annual certification required of IT staff supporting passive Optical LANs. Training can be accomplished in 5-days, compared to copper based LAN training extending weeks if not months. Furthermore, there is no need for expensive and time consuming formal certification programs for the IT staff that often pull them off the job for extended periods of time. In the end, this helps CIO, IT managers and IT staffs compensate for today’s lean IT workforce, keep pace with evolutionary innovations, manage the daily heavy workloads and assists with the retention of quality IT staff.