Indeed, Lantel Communications is determined to continue providing its legacy of excellence both in the telecommunications and security industries. Today, in trying to fill the gap between the provider and client, its staff have striven to provide these tailored solutions suited to the ever changing needs of their diverse client base.
Public safety and security is, undoubtedly a constantly changing and dynamic landscape facing challenging times for organizations across various sectors to ensure their facilities’ safety as well as the people who will eventually enter those same facilities. Whether from schools and healthcare institutions or public sector agencies, there is a growing need for sophisticated, integrated security solutions that meet threats not only in the short run but also offer long-term, proactive safeguards. However, very few organizations can identify appropriate systems, let alone have the technical capacity to ensure that such a combination would allow for integration free of hitches and in keeping with regulatory standards.
There’s the needed partner that fills the gap: Lantel Communications, a leader in low-voltage integration. Founded 32 years ago in the Greater Boston area, Lantel specializes in voice and data solutions, IT services, audio-visual installations, and electronic security systems. For over three decades, President Joseph Bodio and his team have been prominent and effective in the low-voltage integration industry. The company is oriented toward the core mission of providing cutting-edge technology and security solutions geared to meet diverse client needs, from schools and health facilities to municipalities and public safety agencies.
Lantel Communications has segmented its service portfolio into four major product lines:
This is what differentiates Lantel: the company would identify problems with their clients and then come up with customized solutions beyond the initial expectation. Most clients approach Lantel thinking they have security issues such as visitor management and video surveillance and do not know how to begin implementing the solution to their challenge. In these areas, Lantel’s competency ranges from identifying the core problem, the implementation of a solution, and further improvement by introducing more sophisticated analytics in real-time and interoperability across systems.
For instance, Lantel doesn’t just sell visitor management systems that capture who goes in and out of a building; they integrate those systems with national offender registries, linking video surveillance seamlessly with visitor records. This ensures clients do not only meet their immediate security needs but also, subscribe to scalable long-term solutions that would serve them in years to come.
Lantel takes big consideration in their daily operations not only on industry standards but also on legal considerations. Their electronic security solutions consider the Fourth Amendment to ensure that their client operations are done according to constitutional rights and protections of privacy. In the day-to-day strategies of the company, it considers all the sectors it serves education, health care, cannabis, or government work-in fulfilling all legal requirements in each sector. For example, in Massachusetts, the law stipulates that any video footage has to be retained for at least 30 days. Lantel ensures its clients meet such standards without having to compromise data security.
Lantel’s technicians are state-certified and licensed. The company has professional conduct as well as excellence in every project undertaken, always updated.
Such an impressive portfolio of projects as it appears. Indeed, among them, there are large installations in public schools, health care facilities, and municipal infrastructure. For example, the Boston Public School District presents Lantel’s effort over challenging installation conditions to provide a cloud-based video surveillance system within some of the city’s oldest buildings.
Their skills include the Chelmsford School District, where Lantel made video surveillance, access control, and panic devices all in direct communication with the local police department to make it easier to have a rapid response to any situation deemed a safety concern in the school. This makes it possible for the school to address any security matter without being too open with law enforcement while maintaining safety.
In addition, Lantel also manages a statewide camera system, including over 1,600 cameras and 3,000 antennas, operated via eight police departments within the Boston metropolitan area. The multi-agency system speaks to Lantel’s abilities to work through very complex projects and provide seamless interoperability and data sharing, a vital feature of public safety operations.
Lantel Communications prides itself on fostering an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Under the leadership of Joseph Bodio, the company has developed a strong culture of teamwork and problem-solving. Employees are encouraged to contribute to strategic discussions and are dispatched in small, focused groups to address specific challenges in the field.
Lantel’s field technicians are members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 103 in Boston. This affiliation guarantees that their workforce is among the best-trained and most highly skilled in the industry, reflecting Lantel’s ongoing commitment to excellence.
Lantel Communications operates in the spirit of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The company intentionally recruits members from the communities that it serves to give back to those communities by offering jobs and workforce diversity. Lantel works closely with local technical high schools to ensure that it recruits a large space of potential employees, and the company is very proud of its strong minority representation. This commitment to inclusivity not only gives a fresh life to internal company culture but also strengthens the ties of the corporation with communities where it has its bases.
Going forward, Lantel is poised to grow and expand. As of today, it’s a huge player in all six states of New England. Additionally, through managing different national accounts, they have a footprint in another 12 states. Lantel has plans to grow geographically and innovate more and more in security technology in the public sector going forward. In effect, Lantel should ensure that the commitment to its clients of the best service, while it keenly focuses on the community, never changes even when demand for advanced security solutions has increased.
Indeed, Lantel Communications is determined to continue providing its legacy of excellence both in the telecommunications and security industries. Today, in trying to fill the gap between the provider and client, its staff have striven to provide these tailored solutions suited to the ever-changing needs of their diverse client base.
