Recently, the UNH-IOL launched the new Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) Logo Certification Program. ONIE allows a network operating system to be easily installed on any whitebox switch hardware that supports ONIE. ONIE is installed on the mass storage device in the switch during the manufacturing process and enables automation and installation of a NOS image once the switch is installed in the customer network. ONIE saves time and money for data center operation by automating NOS installation and updating...
IOL Blog: Open Networking
ONIE Open Solutions Validating Services: Enabling Enterprises to Using Open Solutions in Data Center Technologies
By Karina Smith - April 5, 2017
Interoperability Testing Evolves with Second OPNFV Plugfest
By Lincoln Lavoie - February 10, 2017
Wrapping up the OPNFV Colorado release work in 2016, the OPNFV Plugfest and co-located Hackfest in December brought together 70 participations from 23 different organizations. The international group, traveling in from Asia, Europe, and North America, converged at the UNH InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), in Durham, NH for a full week of activities. Fueled by coffee, snacks, fancy chocolates (someone brought from afar), and more coffee, participants spent the week running tests and various deployment scenarios, working with on and off-site...
Interoperability Testing at the OPNFV Plugfest: Deployment, Network Integration and VNF Applications
By Karina Smith - November 16, 2016
We are looking forward to hosting the OPNFV Plugfest the week of December 5 - 9, 2016 at the UNH Interoperability Lab. The week-long event is a great opportunity for organizations to test the interoperability of specific OPNFV implementations over multiple hardware platforms as well as Virtual Network Functions (VNF)applications.
Plugfests provide a venue for to do real-time, hands-on testing with others in the industry. These events can be extremely valuable during the early stages of technology....
UNH-IOL Supports the Growth of the Open Networking Integrator’s List
By Meghan Carroll - April 29, 2016
The IOL has been a key player for the Open Networking community, hosting plugfests to allow for the testing of whitebox switches. During these plugfests , companies bring their whitebox switches into the lab to determine whether or not they are interoperable with a variety of Network Operating Systems and pluggable modules. After a series of dry run test events in 2015, the first Open Networking plugfest was held in September 2015. Following this event, the lab published the...
Who’s Down with Open Networking?
By David Woolf - September 21, 2015
This week UNH-IOL is holding our 3rd Plugfest with the Open Compute Project (OCP) Networking Group. Our earlier events were focused on defining and improving our testing processes, but this event is special. We’ll be using everything we’ve learned as a community over the last year to prove interoperability of Open Networking by incorporating open testing, then using that to publish sets of known interoperable Open Networking solutions.