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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:

IEEE logo
WiMAX Forum
TIA Online
ANSI logo

Presenting at the following conferences:

VoIP Conference

 


Publishing articles in the following publications:

RF Design Magazine

 

 


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

802 Wireless meeting highlights


March 1, 2007 - Installation & Maintenance article on 802.11n


February 28, 2007 - presentation at WiMAX Summit


January 2007 - IEEE 802 Wireless LAN/MAN Standards Committee meeting, London

Meeting highlights


November 2006 - Plenary meeting of IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee

IEEE 802.3 HSSG report


September 2006 - Mesh networking panel at VON (moderator)
 


September 2006 - presented at IMEC Leuven RF Technology Day, IEEE 802.11n PHY Overview and Channel Models
 


June 2006 - cover story in RF Design magazine on mesh networks


May 2006 - presented at Upperside Wireless WiFi Convergence conference,  Fixed Mobile Convergence VoWiFi Requirements


March 2006 - article on 802.11T test standard in Network World


February 2006 - article on  broadband video over WiFi in Mass High Tech

 


 


Contact information:  info@octoscope.com or +1 (978) 376-5841