Testimonials
OctoScope has been helpful and responsive in advising our team on wireless network performance validation. Fanny brings an impressive knowledge of wireless standards and practical industry experience.— Nachum Sadan
President and CEO
Amperion
Product Testing Services
Through our experience developing test equipment, participating in the industry standards process and hands on testing, we combine a thorough understanding of performance requirements with hands on testing experience. The octoScope team has been involved in all phases of product test:
- Hardware design verification test, including voltage ranging and environmental testing
- Quality Assurance testing, including test automation development
- Regulatory compliance testing
- Functional testing, including hardware and software testing
- Test fixturing for QA and production
- Production testing including device under test calibration
- Test automation, including data collection and control
- Field testing to verify RF signal integrity and performance in the field
- Performance testing, such as throughput vs. range or roaming
The types of testing we do can be summarized as follows:
| Development and QA | Production | Deployment |
| Throughput vs. range and other PHY conditions | PHY waveforms looped from TX to RX | MAC/PHY performance testing, e.g., throughput vs. range |
| Throughput, delay and jitter through application layers and through IMS and IP | Power consumption test to find circuit faults | Application performance testing, including voice, video and data applications |
| Roaming in a variety of motion and base station availability scenarios | TX and RX calibration | Throughput, delay and jitter vs. speed of motion, roaming and other PHY conditions |
| Power consumption in various use case scenarios (e.g. circuit void, VoIP, video streaming, web access, standby, etc.) | Test fixturing | Capacity measurements |
| Protocol decoding (monitoring) | Test automation | Roaming behavior testing |
| Infrastructure capacity testing using client emulation | Test speed optimization |
We are especially interested in handset testing because new generation handsets, running networking applications such as video and web access, will face new challenges of performance vs. battery life testing. Battery life adds a new dimension to testing and we have been studying the requirements for this type of test functionality for handsets supporting multiple radio interfaces, including 2G (CDMA, GSM), 3G (WCDMA) and 4G (LTE or WiMax).