octoScope Introduces 3 New Personal Testbeds for Accurate Repeatable

and Automated Wireless Testing

octoScope, the leader in accurate, repeatable and automated wireless testbeds, today extended its unique approach to wireless testing by introducing three new personal testbeds to the octoBox® product line.

The STACK-BENCHTOP, STACK-16 and STACK-SNB personal testbeds, emulating real-life wireless environment, range in size from a desktop/benchtop model to refrigerator-sized testbeds on wheels. The compact size of the octoBox enables wireless test and development engineers to perform fast, comprehensive and repeatable testing in their offices rather than inside large isolation chambers or in test houses.

With the number of wireless devices on today’s networks continuing to multiply, R&D leaders are realizing that testing in walk-in isolation chambers bottlenecks new product releases and dampens productivity. The octoBox personal testbeds enable more comprehensive testing by more engineers in parallel, shortening the test cycle and improving test coverage. The octoBox is a compact alternative to conventional anechoic chambers or screen rooms and can replace a test house for over 80% of typical tests.

All octoBox testbeds support MIMO-OTA (multiple input multiple output over the air) testing, offering the top MIMO throughput and complete isolation from outside interference.

“Our goal in introducing the three new octoBox configurations is to help customers easily select the testbed depending on the tests they need to run,” said Fanny Mlinarsky, president of octoScope. "We have introduced the octoBox in 2013 and over the years have learned to optimize its configurations for the focused test and development teams," she added. "Our customers include wireless operators, equipment and chipset vendors and each customer has teams with different needs."

The three well-defined testbed configurations, each with its own test capabilities, help users select the right solution for their needs, depending on whether they are testing a single device, a mesh network, the latest high order MIMO or 802.11ax technology.

The octoBox personal testbeds include:

STACK-BENCHTOP

Measuring 27 inches wide by 25 inches high by 25 inches deep, STACK-BENCHTOP is compact enough to fit on your desk or lab bench. It performs a comprehensive list of automated tests including MIMO-OTA throughput vs. range, rate adaptation, band steering, roaming, expert monitoring, interference avoidance and packet capture.

STACK-16

The STACK-16 testbed is primarily a throughput testbed optimized to achieve the highest possible MIMO-OTA throughput. To achieve maximum throughput and over-the-air stability for high order MIMO systems capable of up to 8 spatial streams, the STACK-16 testbed with 16 MIMO paths provides a rich MIMO environment.

STACK-SNB

The STACK-SNB is the most comprehensive of the standard octoBox configurations. This testbed was defined collaboratively by octoScope and SmallNetBuilder.com. It tests MIMO-OTA throughput vs. range and vs. orientation of the device under test, roaming, band steering and the ability of a mesh network to optimize airlink capacity. Mesh and band steering tests demonstrate how well an access point and range extenders maintain airlink efficiency to support demanding applications, such as video and audio over Wi‑Fi.