The Smart Building Industry with Pook-Ping Yao: Nexus podcast

Nexus Labs podcast interview with Ping Yao and James Dice

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

Optigo Connect Distech Controls router management OT network

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

Find out just how simple it is to get an Optigo Connect system up and running

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 […]

After COVID-19: What’s Next for Building Automation

Covid-19 and the BAS industry

By Pook-Ping Yao, CEO, Optigo Networks What a time it’s been. We’re a few months into what could be a year — or more — of the new normal. I’ve enjoyed seeing more of my wife and kids, eating daily lunches together, and exploring our board game collection.  But we’re also learning to cope in a world […]

Celebrating women in the BAS industry, with Automated Buildings

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash

Every March for the last few years at Optigo, we’ve taken a moment to celebrate women in tech and building automation. If you didn’t know, March marks Women’s History Month, and March 8th is International Women’s Day.  In 2017, we celebrated Monica, our former Director of Marketing who could talk BACnet with the best of […]

Foresight is 2020: Predictions for smart buildings and IoT in 2020

The future of building internet of things (BIoT) in 2020

You could safely term the last decade of tech innovation “the Smartphone Era.” The first iPhone was released almost 13 years ago, in 2007. Since then, we’ve gone from seeing smartphones as something of a fingerprint-smudged fad to an essential piece of our lifestyle. So, if we’re leaving behind the Smartphone Era, where will we […]

From Basic to Master with Optigo OneView

Optigo OneView demo

There’s a ton you can do to manage your Optigo Connect network in Optigo OneView, from managing and organizing VLANs to creating mirror ports and securing the network at the touch of a button. Find out all the power and control you can get out of a OneView management dashboard in this webinar session: In […]

Where to capture data for Visual BACnet

Where to capture BACnet data traffic for Visual BACnet

Visual BACnet is a powerful program that removes the guesswork in diagnosing problems on your network. It provides a concrete Network Health Score, highlights key issues, and empowers users to improve their networks over time. But you have to give it the right data first, and that means knowing where on the network to capture. […]

What Are Passive Optical Splitters? A Simple Explanation

Optigo Networks passive optical splitters

The innovation of Passive Optical Networking, allows us to use these splitters when designing flexible and expandable network topologies, creating fault-tolerant networks, and making efficient use of fiber. Among the most unique features of Optigo Connect are our Passive Optical Splitters. What is Passive Optical Networking? Passive Optical Networking (PON) is a method for creating […]

Designing a High Rise Network with Optigo Connect

An artistic photograph of high rise apartment windows reflected to look like they go on forever.

Building a bid with Optigo Connect? Whether you’re designing a network for a big or small building, a new project, or a retrofit — Optigo Connect Spectra and Hybrid have you covered. In this webinar session, we delve into a high-rise network. Watch the recording, or read on to learn about key network considerations. Design […]