The 10BASE-T Testing Service is a world class test house for 10BASE-T products. The testing service brings together members and industry to foster interoperability among 10BASE-T products and increase the market feasibility of 10BASE-T technology.

The once UNH-IOL 10BASE-T Consortium has matured, like all consortiums will, into a testing service. A consortium matures when there is no longer development with in the technology and a need for interoperablilty testing. The 10BASE-T Consortium was founded in 1990 and was replaced by the UNH-IOL 10BASE-T Testing Service in 1993.

The UNH-IOL 10BASE-T Testing Service is a one-time product test in which a company is not required to leave a product at the lab after the testing has been completed.

The 10BASE-T Consortium offers the following benefits to our members:

• Industry recognized third party verification of your products
• Full access to one of the most well-equipped and recognized networking labs in the world
• Cutting edge test equipment and our customized test tools
• Knowledgeable and friendly staff
• Assistance in duplicating and solving issues seen in the field
• Extensive conformance test suites
• Industry recognized testing reports and expert feedback

Since the 10BASE-T Consortium has matured in to a testing service companies are not required to become members. The 10BASE-T Testing Services is a pay per test product and is open to any company for the price of the one time testing fee.

Physical security of the equipment and intellectual property housed at the UNH-IOL is one of our primary concerns. From Section 7.0 "Security of Physical Equipment" of the Usage Agreement:

"Access to other member(s) device(s) or component(s) is allowed only via a specific network interface(s) defined by the member for gathering interoperability information. Information that can be obtained via the network is deemed interoperability information. Physical access to another members' equipment will be via authorized UNH-IOL personnel only."

The primary financial benefit of the 10BASE-T Testing Services is our extensive conformance test services; you can benefit from our expertise and eliminate the costs of developing such tests internally. Our test suite procedures and methodologies have been reviewed and accepted by the companies requesting testing, ensuring a uniform interpretation of the standard and the implementation of our tests.

The services we provide are used to verify proper operation of your 10BASE-T products.

Finally, your engineers do not need to be physically present at our lab during scheduled testing. We can perform testing autonomously, greatly reducing your travel and labor expenses.

Because the UNH-IOL 10BASE-T Testing Service is not a consortium, you are not required to sign up for a membership before requesting testing. All that is need is to follow our registration process and pay the testing fee for the one-time testing. This also means that a company is not required to leave a product at the lab after testing has been completed.
(Note: Leaving a representative piece of equipment at the IOL will cause the product to be added to our testing pool).

Details regarding the representative equipment aspect of membership are determined on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please contact Peter Scruton, the 10BASE-T Testing Service manager, at pjs@iol.unh.edu.

The current fees for all active UNH-IOL Consortiums and Contracted Services can be found on our annual fees page.

The 10BASE-T Testing Service provides testing of 10BASE-T devices in one of three forms. The cost breakdown is as follows:

Once again, these prices are for one round of testing on one product. If your company would like two of these subsets of tests performed on one product, the fee would be $10,000.

If a complete test suite is desired on multiple ports of a single device, the cost of the added testing is greatly reduced. The additional charge is based on the nature of the device being tested and the testing being performed. Please contact a 10BASE-T Testing Service representative to determine added cost.

Because the UNH-IOL 10BASE-T Testing Service is not a consortium, companies who request 10BASE-T Testing are not required to leave a product at the lab after the testing has been completed (Note: Leaving a representative piece of equipment at the IOL will cause the product to be added to our testing pool).

No. Attendance is not required in order for us to perform scheduled testing. However, customers who attend often find it easier to troubleshoot conformance issues as they are discovered.

Customers who attend are not limited to our test suites; they are welcome and encouraged to perform their own testing utilizing our test tools as an extension of their own in-house test lab.

Confidentiality of results is of the utmost importance to us. All test results are documented in formal UNH-IOL test reports which are provided solely to the members whose devices are tested. Results are not shared among testing service members, and are not publicly released by the UNH-IOL.

Report recipients are free to distribute copies of their test reports at their discretion, provided they adhere to the guidelines described in Section 6.2.1 of the UNH-IOL Usage Agreement.

Testing can be scheduled using our on-line request page. Alternatively, you can contact us to check for availability and discuss specific requirements that you may have.

Test weeks are reserved on a first-come, first served basis. Customers in good standing may have, at most, one active reservation per membership at any given point in time. In other words, additional weeks may not be reserved until the currently reserved week has been used. This allows for fair access to all companies. The number of weeks that any one company may use in one year is limited only by the number of total companies, and the overall frequency of requests.

For cases where members wish to bypass the existing scheduling mechanism when time-critical services are required, overtime testing is also available. For more information regarding this service, see Section 4.1.3 of the UNH-IOL Usage Agreement.