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Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008

Opto's Video Crew Travels to the East Coast

The video crew has been busy creating videos to bring to you the story of companies that use our equipment in creative and productive ways. Our latest venture took us to locations on the East Coast: Garden City, Long Island, New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Our first stop was at the Verizon central office in Garden City. This office handles important telephone switching operations for a large number of customers on Long Island. Verizon uses Opto 22 equipment to make sure they always have power to the switches. This guarantees that, even in a state of emergency, calls can be completed.  The Verizon guys invited us out to their plant to show us how they do this and to tell us how the Opto 22 system has made their system more reliable. 

This day was a great experience and we got to see some cool stuff.  Steven Peng, our video engineer, wanted to capture the system on film and did just about everything to get the best shot including standing on the table.  Everybody at Opto was excited about the trip and two of the big bosses (Bob and Benson) made time to attend the trip.

The next stop on this trip was the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA. 

 

The day we were there it was snowing, a foreign sight to us native Southern Californians!  When we got to the Science Center, I forgot about the snow because I was too busy looking at the train. 

 

I was expecting a train set similar to what we put up at the Opto 22 headquarters for the holidays.  The train set I saw was HUGE!  It was detailed and beautiful. 

 

The Science Center uses Opto 22 hardware and software to control the train set and the staging elements such as the lights and sounds.  And, they are using a G70 terminal to turn the track and show the kids what engineering can do!

This trip was a great learning experience and I was excited to be a part of it.  To learn more about these applications, view the Verizon case study video and the Carnegie Science Center case study video.  We are already working on the next PAC Your Things videos and they will be starring our favorite director of training Alexi Beck Gray.  If you would like more information about participating in a video case study, just email me.

Have a great day!

-Kelly

 

 

 

 

Posted by kdowney at April 25, 2008 10:41 AM

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