Managed IT Services
Keeping Business on the Fast Track

INDUSTRY

Energy & Utilities

ORGANIZATION

ITC Holding Corp. is the United States’ first fully-independent for profit electric transmission company. Their business is transmitting high voltage electricity in bulk from power generating facilities in Michigan, the Midwest and Canada to the distribution facilities that serve customers in 13 southeast Michigan counties, including the metropolitan areas of Detroit and Ann Arbor.

SITUATION

In the spring of 2003 ITC, the first fully-independent for profit electric transmission company, was moving to a new headquarters location and needed a specific computer network to link together all of its operations facilities. Clinton Township based IT services firm, Logicorps, was given the task to configure, implement, test, and maintain ITC’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition network, otherwise known as a SCADA network.

SOLUTION

Logicorps was tasked with building the infrastructure for the SCADA which included installation and configuration of all cables, switches, routers, security measures, and firewalls – referred to as network architecture. Simply, if all data transmitted across a network were cars, Logicorps was tasked with building the highway – and that highway can never be closed or impassable for any reason. Absolute redundancy was required in the SCADA network, it cannot go down.

RESULTS

Logicorps maintained a close collaboration with ITC Holding Corp. throughout the course of the network architecture development. As a result of the successful SCADA core network implementation, ITC and Logicorps created and grew their successful partnership. Logicorps currently manages the majority of ITC’s key IT systems including wireless communications.