Montreal chip developer Octasic Inc. is leveraging its experience in the voice and video media gateway market to expand into the wireless base station sector. The move, which was announced today, comes as carriers in many parts of the world are looking for speed increases and Octasic can give it to them by improving legacy second-generation wireless equipment through chip-level enhancements.

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