Optigo Networks Strengthens Leadership Team
January 24, 2023, Vancouver, Canada – Optigo Networks Inc. (“Optigo Networks”) today announced changes to its leadership team. Joel Schuster, previously Optigo Networks’ COO and General Counsel, has been appointed CEO, and co-founder Ping Yao, previously Optigo Networks’ CEO, has been appointed CTO. Additionally, Jim Whalen, SVP, Chief Information and Technology Officer of BXP, has […]
How to Spec Division 25
The consulting specifying engineer of today is venturing into a totally new territory: Division 25. While an MSI is familiar with the need for a building IoT platform and a way to integrate all the systems, a consulting engineer is only just starting to engage on this level. Need help specifying Div. 25? We’ve worked […]
Tap into the Power of Your JACE
If you’re tired of going on-site to capture BACnet data, look no further than your JACE. The latest release of Visual BACnet from Optigo Networks allows you to capture traffic for analysis right from your JACE, 100% remotely. Our team has been hard at work developing this feature to allow you to harness the power of your […]
Capture BACnet traffic right from your JACE
The latest release from Visual BACnet brings huge convenience and time-saving for users with JACE controllers. Now your JACE gives you greater visibility into your BACnet network, allowing you to capture and send data to Visual BACnet for analysis without additional hardware. This solution means that anyone with a JACE controller can capture the BACnet […]
Visual BACnet Capture Tool now available for Linux
With the new 2.6.0 update for Visual BACnet, we have introduced a Linux Capture Tool. Similar to our Windows Capture Tool, now Linux users can capture BACnet IP and MS/TP traffic right from their computers. Those captures will automatically upload into Visual BACnet for analysis. You can activate captures remotely, and even schedule captures ahead […]
Creating a Robust BACnet Network at Coventry University
Coventry University in the United Kingdom underwent extensive construction for campus expansion, requiring the installation of new devices and network changes. With all the activity on the network Chris Goodman, Senior BMS Technician at Coventry, and his team then had to deal with the subsequent broadcast storms. It was challenging to identify the cause of […]
The Smart Building Industry with Pook-Ping Yao: Nexus podcast
Optigo Networks’ CEO Pook-Ping Yao joined James to discuss (Operational Technology) OT networks and share insights on BACnet and the smart building industry. On the Nexus podcast, founder and host James Dice interviews some of the brightest leaders in the smart building industry. It is a great resource to gain insight and learn from experienced […]
Layer 3 Routing Made Easy
The Optigo Connect router solution, paired with Distech Controls’ suite of powerful products, gives you everything you need for a truly smart building. Do you waste time on repetitive tasks, like entering in static IP addresses? Do you wait forever to get a block of IP addresses from IT that you can use? Layer 3 routing […]
Setting up a Network with Optigo Connect is Easy
Whether it’s building a new piece of furniture or setting up some slick new tech, we’ve all been there: you’re ready to go, you pull up the instructions… and find that it’s way more complicated than you originally thought. The directions are confusing, it seems like there are a thousand different steps, and the diagrams […]
Why should you be an IT partner?
By Kevin Callahan, Product Evangelist at Alerton, and Pook-Ping Yao, CEO at Optigo Networks Decades ago, BACnet changed the business model for our industry. It replaced the totally homogenous, closed, single-vendor buildings with fully open, mixed, multi-vendor systems. While this fragmented the industry and introduced challenges in vendor management, it also gave us an array […]
