Hardware and Software Development / Consultancy / Customisation

We provide experienced consultants with specialist technical knowledge to help with your business challenges. As examples we can provide communications product design expertise, advise on network design and independent project auditing. The team are experienced at reporting to all levels of management.

Hardware and Software Custom Development

Staff from our development teams in the UK and China can undertake your complete software or hardware project or develop sub-systems to interface with those developed by your in-house staff. The custom developments are often for systems and communications projects, some more recent examples of which are: low cost communications cards, data communications gateways for mobile phones, voice and fax over USB, SMS protocol conversion Gateway, lottery systems, Vista drivers.

Version controlled source code and documentation are normally supplied to the client. See Technical Expertise for a list of some of the company's technical skills.

We are experienced in development projects where the teams are distributed internationally and the management skills that are required to ensure success.

The FarSite Communications development team work to the standards required for the development of software in TickIT environments.

Product Customisation for OEMs

FarSite can undertake customisation of our communications products to suit particular customers requirements, some examples include: alternative APIs, porting to new operating systems, alternative protocol stacks, new network interfaces and new bus interfaces.

Technical Expertise

This section details just some of the areas in which we have technical expertise

Application Types

Bridging
Custom communications cards
Drivers for Linux and Windows
FAX Emulators
LAN-WAN Gateways
Lottery Systems and Protocols
ISDN Terminal Adapters
Man-Machine interface design
MIB Design
Mobile telephone control protocols
Modem Simulators
NPSI
Proprietary APIs
Protocol Handlers and Converters
RAS (ISDN BRI & PRI)
Routers
SNMP Agent, Proxy Agent and Extension Agent
Secure Network Design (Internet, Intranet)
Terminal Emulators
USB devices

Standard Protocols

ATM
Bridging (Spanning Tree)
FAX (various group types)
GPRS
IP Routing (RIP / OSPF)
IPX Routing (RIP / NLSP)
ISDN BRI and PRI (Q.921 / 931)
ISO Transport
Modem standards - various
MPoA
PPP (including Multilink, BACP, CCP and CHAP)
PPPoA
QLLC
SHDSL
SNA (3270, LU 6.2, SDLC)
SNMP
T.70 & T.90
TCP/IP
Token Ring DLC
Triple-X PAD
Voice
V.120
WAP
X.25 & X.75
USB

Hardware & Software Platforms

DSPs (various)
Intel X86 series inc embedded types
Linux (various)
Motorola 68000 Series
NEC V series
Pocket PC
pSOS
PowerPC
RTOS
SCO Unix
Streams
ARM based devices
Vista
Windows 2000, XP and NT
Windows CE

Interface Standards

ASN.1
CAPI
CSN.1
NDIS, WAN, NET & COMM for Windows
PCI
PCI-X
PCIe
PCMCIA
Sockets
TAPI / TSPI
TLI
USB

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Development and Consultancy Services

FarSite Communications provide technical consultancy and development services to clients. Click here to contact us with details of your particular requirement, a free response is provided with no obligation on your part.