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. The company has international representatives in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
History
Early years (1980s)
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 computer
A single-board computer (SBC) is a complete computer built on a single circuit board, with microprocessor(s), memory, input/output (I/O) and other features required of a functional computer. Single-board computers are commonly made as demonstrati ...
s.
Octagon Systems has been
ISO
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certified since 1993.
New applications (2000s)
Octagon Systems’ XMB Mobile Servers were mentioned by the trade press in 2006.
Octagon Systems was a founding member of the
Small Form Factor Special Interest Group
The Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG, pronounced ''ess-eff-eff-sig'') is an international non-profit standards body focused on modular computer hardware technologies used in embedded and small form factor computers and controller ...
in 2007.
Octagon co-authored the
EPIC
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embedded computing specification. Octagon’s products were used in public transportation systems, rugged computing systems for mining operations as well as others.
Industry expansion (2010s)
Octagon Systems products expanded into new markets continuing the sell of industrial, transportation and rugged computer systems. The
U.S. Navy chose Octagon’ products for a contract to support amphibious warfare computing, and Octagon products were deployed in mines.
Acquired (2018)
In 2018, J-Squared Technologies acquired the TRAX family of Octagon products.
The Westminster manufacturing facility was closed.
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Computers
Software companies of the United States