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Wireless and RF Communications Product Design and Advocacy

octoScope, Inc. is a Boston area consulting firm that works with high tech companies on architecture, design and promotion of wireless and RF data communications products. We can:

Architect, develop and test RF products quickly and with little guidance
Align your product architecture with the emerging standards or contribute to the standards
Promote and advocate your product through published articles, seminars and presentations
Provide other services such as training and sales support

We are expert at Wi-Fi and experienced with WiMAX, ZigBee, UWB, mm-Wave, 2G/3G and the latest Ethernet technologies over fiber, twisted pair and coax. Our technical knowledge spans protocol and physical layers with a good understanding of RF performance issues. We have worked with:

Channel emulation and Bit Error Rate (BER) performance analysis and test over wireless, twisted pair and fiber media
Performance analysis and test on the IP, MAC and physical layers including rate adaptation, throughput, roaming and fault recovery
VoIP technologies including codecs, transmission channel requirements and QoS metrics
Video transmission technologies including MPEG, H.264 and video QoS metrics
Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) Generic Access Network (GAN) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) handoff protocols
Security protocols including 802.1x, 802.11i and 802.11r
Wireless mesh networking technologies

We have developed a range of standards-based products from hand-held instruments to rack-mountable equipment.

We welcome projects for any market and are happy to explore your needs with you.

Product architecture

Product architecture is the key to success in a technology business. Architecture answers three fundamental questions:

Is the product easy to sell?
What's the investment to bring it to market?
What's the profit margin?

In a standards-driven business, such as data communications, product architecture must be standards compliant. Achieving market success with standards-based products requires a focused standards strategy, active standards work and a public relations campaign promoting the architecture.

We have a track record of successfully aligning new products with industry standards and of contributing technology architecture to the emerging standards.

Involved with the following standards organizations:

Presenting at the following conferences:

Publishing articles in the following publications:

Wireless Technology Seminars

octoScope offers customized seminars on wireless technology and standards - brochure (pdf)

802.11n Interoperability Performance Test

February 2008 - octoScope performed an 802.11n test focusing on inter-vendor throughput performance. report (pdf)

Uncompressed Video over UWB

February 2008 - octoScope tested the Radiospire UWB solution capable of 1080p uncompressed video transmission. report (pdf)

EE Times UWB Performance Test

December 2007 - The article appeared in the print edition of EE Times and the report published online in 3 parts. Part 1

complete report (pdf)

Upcoming Events

July 14-18, 2008 - IEEE 802 plenary meeting in Denver, Colorado

September 15-19, 2008 - presenting at Interop New York

Recent Events

April 27-May 2, 2008 - moderated a session on wireless technologies at Interop, Las Vegas

presentation (pdf)

March 17, 2008 - chaired a session on FMC at VON, San Jose

presentation (pdf)

November 30-December 1, 2007 presented at the IEEE 802 workshop

November 12-16, 2007 - IEEE 802 plenary meeting in Atlanta - meeting summary (pdf)

October 29, 2007 - conducted a Femtocell tutorial at VON/Boston

presentation (pdf)

October 23, 2007 - chaired a session at Interop/NY, Advances in Wireless Technology

presentation (pdf)

September, 2007 - article in Cabling Installation & Maintenance on 802.11n

September 16-21, 2007 - IEEE 802 wireless interim meeting, Hawaii

September 11, 2007 - conducted a seminar on wireless mesh at Wireless City Expo, Los Angeles

September 5, 2007 - conducted IEEE seminar at Pulvermedia FMC conference, Chicago

presentation (pdf)

August 17, 2007 - presented at Consumer Electronics Focus Group (CEFG) briefing sponsored by Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization’s (JIEDDO)

August 15, 2007 - EE Times article on 802.11n test

Test report (pdf)

August 9, 2007 - presented at Pulvermedia webinar on Fixed Mobile convergence

Presentation (pdf)

July 26, 2007 - article on 802.11n in Wireless Net Designline

July 15-20, 2007 - attended IEEE Plenary meeting, San Francisco - Meeting summary (pdf)

July 10, 2007 - Co-authored article in EE-Times on MIMO channel emulation - Wi-Fi channel emulation goes mainstream

June 25, 2007 - Authored white paper for the Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ 802.11n draft 2.0: Longer-Range, Faster-Throughput, Multimedia-Grade Wi-Fi® Networks

May 22, 2007 - moderated Interop Wireless & Mobility session, From the Labs

April 1, 2007 - Test & Measurement World article on 802.11n

March 22, 2007 - presentation at VON on mesh networking

March 12-16, 2007 - IEEE 802 Plenary meeting, Orlando, FL