About the Routing Consortium

The UNH-IOL has been involved in the Routing Industry since the early nineties and MPLS Technology since 1999. The UNH-IOL Routing Consortium is an industry-supported organization that works in conjunction with its member companies to provide a neutral test environment and industry accepted test methodologies for the purpose of promoting and fostering conformance and interoperability of Routing and MPLS devices.

We offer a wide range of extensively detailed test suites designed for your Routing and MPLS related products, including:

• Routers
• Routing Switches
• Software Routers
• Switches

Network Protection Device (NPD) Testing Now Available!

The UNH-IOL is ISO/IEC 17025 accredited to offer the following NPD test services. These services are available to all Routing and IPv6 consortium members with no extra fee.

• Firewalls (FW)
• Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
• Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

Benefits of a Routing Membership

With a membership in Routing you will have access to testing your device to the following conformance test suites:

• BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
• IGMPv2/v3 - Internet Group Management Protocol version 2 and version 3
• IS-IS - Intermediate System to Intermediate System
• OSPF - Open Shortest Path First
• OSPF-NSSA - Open Shortest Path First Not-So-Stubby Area
• PIM-SM - Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode
• RIP - Routing Information Protocol
• RIPng - Routing Information Protocol for Internet Protocol Version 6
• TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

As well as the following Interoperability test suites:

• BGP - Border Gateway Protocol
• BGP4+ - Border Gateway Protocol extensions for Internet Protocol Version 6
• IGMPv3 - Internet Group Management Protocol version 3
• OSPFv2 - Open Shortest Path First version 2 for Internet Protocol version 4
• OSPFv3 - Open Shortest Path First version 3 for Internet Protocol version 6
• PIM-SM - Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode for Internet Protocol Version 4 and 6
• RIP - Routing Information Protocol
• RIPng - Routing Information Protocol for Internet Protocol Version 6

Also with a membership you will be able to test your device to the following MPLS Protocols:

• LDP - Labeled Distribution Protocol
• RSVP-TE - Resource Reservation Protocol for Traffic Engineering