How Dartmouth College Cleaned Up The OT Network Chaos with OptigoVN
Dartmouth College’s Technology Services team is unique. It consists of both OT network and facilities experts dedicated to ensuring the smooth operation of building automation systems (BAS) across the campus—a 269-acre sprawling location, with some buildings over 200 years old. With this kind of mixed building, retrofits and renovations often bring together a wide array […]
How ALC New England Solved a University’s Slow OT Network with OptigoVN
At a sprawling, mixed-use university campus with buildings over 160 years old, ALC New England faced a monumental challenge: improving the performance of an OT network plagued by misconfigurations and vendor conflicts. With systems spanning diverse hardware, protocols, and vendors, maintaining optimal performance was no small feat. As Matt Hogan, Service Project Engineer at ALC […]
How Penn State Solved MS/TP Issues Overnight
When Tom Walker looked at Penn State University’s Navy Yard network, he saw big issues. The system was busy and loud. So loud, that the overrun MS/TP network was bringing down the entire building. Because this was happening on the MS/TP network, pinpointing the problem would mean boots on the ground to segment and test […]
Superb customer value, with Visual BACnet
ATS, an industry-leading systems integrator with offices across the United States, has a clear vision for supporting customers. They want to be their clients’ trusted partner, through installation and beyond. This includes: advocating for their clients’ desired standards delivering superior service and support and providing ongoing analysis and optimization for building control systems “By providing […]
Optigo Networks & BrainBox AI Collaborate to Improve Network Health and Energy Savings
The ongoing heating and cooling needs of the world’s buildings account for 28% of energy related carbon emissions, according to the World Green Building Council. It’s no secret that creating a more sustainable environment depends upon our ability to innovate and quickly adopt smart technologies that can greatly reduce our carbon footprint. Among the companies […]
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 […]
Princeton University’s Journey to Better Network Visibility with Optigo Networks
Whether it’s VLANs or a smoky data center, the IT and OT teams at Princeton always have each other’s backs. At Optigo Networks, we firmly believe IT and OT teams can work together in any number of ways. Your network could be separate or converged, and you could assign responsibilities based on expertise or device […]
How Penn State Monitors For a Smart, Healthy Network
Not so long ago, Penn State had big network problems. Think tons of network traffic, buildings dropping offline — that sort of thing. When Tom Walker first started working at PSU four years ago, broadcast traffic was pushing 90,000 packets per hour. He was on the phone almost every single night because devices were down or […]
Optigo Networks integrates with KMC Controls to Improve Smart Building Monitoring
Vancouver, May 8, 2017 – A brand new integration from Indiana-based KMC Controls and Vancouver-based Optigo Networks allows for full-system monitoring of building networks. This helps controls engineers, integrators, service technicians, and building managers alike save time, money, and energy with monitoring at all system levels. Through the partnership, KMC Controls and Optigo Networks are […]
