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In 1999, Digital Planet was founded to help businesses operate more effectively by utilizing technology solutions.

Our Mission

We exist to help other small to medium sized businesses grow by reviewing their needs, positioning the right solution and then training them how to best utilize their technology to communicate effectively. Our model is simple, we constantly listen to the needs of our client and position the proper valued products and services and then top that with exceptional services and followup. This simple formula coupled with great customer relationships have kept us on a steady growth path.

Digital Planet is by definition of it's DNA an outsourced Technology Consulting Firm. It's our job to help you with your help desk needs, implementing your latest ERP or CRM solution or even designing and deploying your corporate wide network security solution. But unlike a traditional IT company the story we want to tell is about who we are, what we can do and more importantly how we can help you. 

Examples of our work

FIA Formula 1 - Circuit of the Americas - Broadcast Network
in Dec 2012 Digital Planet was chosen to help design and build the racetrack wide fiber-optic Managed Area Network for broadcast operations. This project originally started with a request to build a 10 Gigabit Sonet Ring network which quickly transitioned into a much faster and more robust network since the opening of the track. Today Digital Planet manages a full 100 Gigabit ring connecting thousands of devices by for race team operations, broadcast operations, site equipment, internet of things devices and others to a 40 Gigabit Internet Backbone provided by Level3/Google.


NASA - USAF
For the past half decade we have been an outsource technology partner for the United States Air Force & NASA at the Johnson Space Center, Michaoud Assembly Center & the Kennedy Space Center Complex. We have provided migration services for People Soft, engineering & planning services for complex cable plant and Helpdesk support for custom line software applications.

Royal Dutch Shell
Providing unique and quick attention to our clients needs is what we specialize in, and our projects offshore to Royal Dutch Shell are no exception. We have worked with Shell to help bring Voice of IP, Internet & video surveillance of active producing and decommissioned rigs in the gulf of Mexico.

We have partnered with SpaceX to provide reliable 2 way communication to the workers on platform as well as to the executive staff back in Houston all via solar and wind power generation all managed and monitoring by the oil producers.

NFL - MLB
In 2001 during the construction of the new Detroit Lions Ford Field & Detroit Tigers Comerica Park stadiums we were tapped to create a camera surveillance solution so that the staff at Hunt Construction Group could monitor the entire construction area for theft prevention. We partnered at that time with Canon to use their VBC series IP cameras placed around the footprint of the stadium to watch for potential theft. After 3 arrests in the first 60 days the folks at MLB asked us to do the same in Cincinnati, Chicago, Kansas City & St. Louis. We have since designed & built camera systems for 10 stadiums around United States and Canada.

In 2004 The NFL commissioned us to build a fan cam & construction camera system for their upcoming Arrowhead Stadium rebuild. We installed 3 point to point wireless radios to beam the signal from the construction trailers into the upper decks of the stadium so that they could get time-lapse footage of the entire construction project and fans could interact with the camera with 10 second control of the robotic head. We went on to do that for several more stadiums as they have been rebuilt.

Carhartt - Valade Companies
For Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe we have been there from day one. When Gretchen Carhartt Valade opened Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI and needed an network built and managed for her upscale establishment she called Digital Planet. We built and designed the back of house network for the point of sale system, the guest wireless network with promotional system, onsite & offsite backup and overall network security system. This process went so well we were hired to manage and build IT infrastructure at her other businesses (Capricious and Morning Glory Cafe, Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation & Mack Avenue Records).

JC Fodale Energy Services
Services of Louisiana needed some major engineering help in building out full enterprise networks (SAT connections for voip and data, point to point 20mile microwave links and desktop infrastructure) in extremely remote locations often with no public utilities they turned to us. Their main Texas yard had a single 2 megabit DSL circuit, deploying the right equipment and proper bandwidth management were able to serve VOIP, VPN for Kronos time clocks and basic e-mail and web surfing for over 60 computers until we could upgrade services to fiber-optics months later. Since then JC Fodale has hired us over the past three years to design, deploy and manage networks in seven states. 

Americenters Inc,
Our first client in 1999/2000 and still to this day some 21 years laters. Americenters is an Executive Office Suite serving clients throughout the midwest. One of our initial projects was to help them build a network for offering clients T1 internet access. Whole buildings needed to be wired up, services brought in and a managed network designed and constructed. We did this in one location and was such a success that we were hired to manage all their networks across the midwest and we eventually added on a host of services as both our companies have grown. Today Americenters maintains a state of the art Cisco Powered Network and offers phenomenal services for business professionals needing single or multiple office spaces in Greater Detroit, Chicago and Columbus. 

Some of What We've Achieved Over 20 Years