Octagon Systems
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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | August 1, 1981 in Westminster, Colorado, U.S. |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
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| Website | www |
Octagon Systems Corporation is an industrial computer design and manufacturing company originally based in Westminster, Colorado. Octagon Systems designs, manufactures, sells, repairs and supports its line of industrial, mobile and rugged computer systems for industries including mining, military, transportation and others.[1][2] The company has international representatives in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
History
[edit]Early years (1980s)
[edit]Octagon Systems was founded in 1981, and introduced an embedded computer with a high level language and software development system and operating systems on a solid state disk. Octagon’s services and systems grew with industrial computer systems including the STD Bus market and development of single-board computers. Octagon Systems has been ISO certified since 1993.[3]
New applications (2000s)
[edit]Octagon Systems’ XMB Mobile Servers were mentioned by the trade press in 2006.[4] Octagon Systems was a founding member of the Small Form Factor Special Interest Group in 2007.
Octagon co-authored the EPIC embedded computing specification. Octagon’s products were used in public transportation systems, rugged computing systems for mining operations as well as others.[5][6]
Industry expansion (2010s)
[edit]Octagon Systems products expanded into new markets continuing the sell of industrial, transportation and rugged computer systems. The U.S. Navy chose Octagon’s products for a contract to support amphibious warfare computing, and Octagon products were deployed in mines.[7][8]
Acquired (2018)
[edit]In 2018, J-Squared Technologies acquired the TRAX family of Octagon products.[9] The Westminster manufacturing facility was closed.
References
[edit]- ^ "Octagon computers 'brains' behind many systems". BizWest. BizWest Media, LLC. October 3, 2003. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
- ^ Architecture Technology Corporation (1990). PCs in the Factory (2nd ed.). Elsevier Science. ASIN B01E3ETPAE.
- ^ Octagon Systems. "Fleet CORE M(tm) Mobile Computer". Military Embedded Systems. OpenSystems Media. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
- ^ "Formation's Rugged Hard Drives to Fly in AC-130H/U Gunships". COTS Journal - The Journal of Military Electronics & Computing. COTS Journal. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
- ^ Sarangapani, Jagannathan (2006). Neural Network Control of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems (Illustrated ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9780824726775.
- ^ Roberts, Steven (2000). From Behemoth to Microship (Illustrated ed.). Nomadic Research Labs. ISBN 978-1929470006.
- ^ Keller, John (January 10, 2013). "Raytheon chooses Octagon Systems to supply FLEET rugged computers for LPD-17 shipboard electronics". Military & Aerospace Electronics. Aerospace Defense Media Groups. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
- ^ McKown, John (May 11, 2016). "A Comparison of Mobile Computer Hardware Strategies in Mining". Engineering & Mining Journal. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
- ^ "J-Squared Acquires Octagon TRAX". Press release. April 30, 2018. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2021.