Spirent OCTOBOX Box-18
Small Semi-anechoic chamber (18 inches wide)
Complete RF isolation, turn table and built-in instrumentation
OCTOBOX Box-18 is a small semi-anechoic chamber offering complete isolation from external interference thanks to its high-rejection filters for data and power connections. With metal surfaces covered by absorber foam, OCTOBOX dampens reflections. A built-in plastic turn table enables rotation of the device during the test or precisely orients the device antennas to determine nulls and peaks in the antenna propagation pattern.
The OCTOBOX can be turned into an OCTOBOX smartBox™ by adding an OCTOBOX Pal-6E subsystem, based on one of the most advanced Wi-Fi 6E chipsets on the market supporting all the Wi-Fi protocols, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ ac/ax, in the 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz bands. With the access to the chipset’s driver and firmware, you can configure the smartBox as a real device or as a test instrument. As a real device, the smartBox runs the standard station and AP (access point) drivers and hence supports the full protocol stack, including PHY, MAC, IP and application layers. As an instrument, the smartBox can emulate virtual stations for testing APs under heavy traffic load from multiple stations, perform expert monitoring and analysis, replay captured traffic or operate as a sniffer.
- 18″ wide
- Complete isolation from outside interference
- 20 dB of absorption
- Built-in non-reflective turn table
- Support for 600 MHz to 7.2 GHz frequency band of operation
- Filtered gig Ethernet, USB, HDMI, fiber optic high speed connections
- Filtered AC and DC power
- Filtered ventilation
- Peel & stick easy-to-replace gasketing to maintain isolation year after year
Applications:
- Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/p/n/ac), Bluetooth and cellular (GSM, UMTS, LTE, FDD, TD-LTE and LTE-Advanced) testing
- Throughput vs. range vs. orientation measurements using the OCTOBOX testbed
- Certification testing
- RX dynamic range testing
- Antenna pattern measurement
- Measurements under controlled signal and noise power settings
- Video over Wi-Fi testing with monitor mount for viewing video quality
OCTOBOX testbeds are compact, stackable testing environments for evaluating the performance of Wi-Fi and 5G network equipment and devices. Choose from pre-configured, turnkey options such as STACK-MIN, STACK-MID, or STACK-MAX, or build your own testbed by selecting from our building blocks.