OCTANE
OCTANE is a secure, neutral environment—hosted for a specific government community and operated by Antillion that lets mixed teams integrate systems and test under realistic conditions to produce evidence before live trials.
Built on Insight. Driven by Purpose
OCTANE is hosted for a specific government community, with each instance designed to the sponsoring client’s exact requirements. Operated by Antillion as a managed, digital hands environment, it blends human expertise with intelligent automation — connecting every component, maintaining performance, and ensuring technology stays accountable, aligned, and secure where it matters.
Sovereign collaboration
Architect & Validate
A neutral, secure-by-design space where multi-party teams can work together with appropriate safeguards. Data residency and governance remain within controlled boundaries, so collaboration doesn’t mean oversharing.
Experimentation lifecycle
Automate & Deploy
Integrate components, recreate realistic (including constrained/contested) conditions, compare outcomes, and move services into live trials—and back again—without starting over. The focus is credible evidence, not just lab demos.
Operated service
Sustain & Evolve
Antillion provides the know-how and people to stand up and run the environment to your specification: reduced accreditation effort for many tasks, sensible licence posture (pay for what you use), and the technical wrap-arounds that keep everything connected and available.
Calnex collaboration
Inside OCTANE, teams can use the Calnex NE-ONE emulator to model Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) conditions with control and repeatability. The TDMA Mesh capability emulates slotting and queueing behaviours typical of time-division tactical links, allowing latency, jitter, and loss patterns to be reproduced without a radio environment. This enables realistic pre-deployment trials at lower cost and higher fidelity across maritime today—and naturally into air, land, and multi-domain contexts.
The OCTANE Advantage
Sovereign & compliant
Controlled residency and governance for public-sector workloads
Faster progress
Integration waypoint + realistic conditions shorten the path from concept to evidence
Cost control
Pay-for-what-you-use licences; avoid rebuilding one-off test rigs
Security & assurance
Secure-by-design, IL3/IL5-aligned hosting environment; reduced accreditation effort for many tasks
Ready to Proceed
OCTANE is available to specific government communities.
Get Community Access
Get Community Access
If your programme is within the eligible community, please contact your Dstl point of contact to initiate a formal access request to OCTANE.
Design Your Version
Design Your Version
If you’d like a version tailored to your community’s standards and specifications, talk to us. Antillion can design, build, and operate a managed environment to your requirements.
