For the last two years I have been an Electrical Engineering student at UNH and working at the IOL testing SAS technologies. This past summer I was asked to work with Curtis Donahue, Manager of Ethernet Technologies, on a fairly new testing service; Automotive Ethernet. Due to my experience at the IOL and working with industry standards, I had a great opportunity to attend an IEEE meeting in California. The IEEE standards are used all around the world in different...
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The IEEE Standards process, From Objectives to a Technology Standard
By Jason Sisk - April 13, 2017
ONIE Open Solutions Validating Services: Enabling Enterprises to Using Open Solutions in Data Center Technologies
By Karina Smith - April 5, 2017
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...
Shipping the UNH-IOL’s First vIOLett 802.1 Core Test Software
By Charles McNaughton - April 3, 2017
As a full-time undergraduate student pursuing a computer science B.S. degree at the University of New Hampshire, one might be surprised to learn I have the time or expertise to work on assisting in the delivery of the first vIOLett 802.1 Core layer 2 application suite. I have been working in the Ethernet Switching Protocols (ESP) test group at the University of New Hampshire - InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) for 4 years. In ESP, we have been working on a new...
The Problem is Always the Cable: My 2015 High School Internship
By Daroc Alden - February 15, 2017
It always feels friendlier, in my opinion, to write essays and articles as though I were in conversation with my readers. 1
So hello! I’m Daroc Alden, a freshman at the University of New Hampshire and a Test Technician in the IOL’s AVnu Testing Services. 2 I was recently asked to write a blog post about my internship experience during the summer of 2015. Although I am writing this 18 months after my internship, and so my memories might...
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...
Final Thoughts About My Summer at the UNH-IOL
By Emily Burnham - January 19, 2017
Throughout this six week internship, I have learned a lot in such little time while at the IOL and I have enjoyed every moment. Some of my favorite times were rebuilding a computer, learning new code, as well as working with the other IP interns Tim, Grayson, Jasiah, and the rest of the IP team. In addition, the site visits were an eye-opening experience and very informative for my understanding of Computer Science.
During the first week at the...
Collaborating with Industry to Create Secure IoT Solutions
By Grayson Tutlle - January 19, 2017
Recently I had the opportunity to work on a Secure Internet of Things (IoT) demo with two collaborating companies, GlobalSign , a WebTrust-certified certificate authority and Infineon , a semiconductor manufacturer. The demo comprised of a Raspberry Pi single board computer, an Infineon Iridium TPM Board, and an LED light strip which was controlled through a secure website with certificates and provisioning through GlobalSign. Specifically, I was tasked with upgrading the demo to current hardware and technologies....
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....
IOL: In The Beginning
By William Lenharth - October 31, 2016
It started with the Research Computing Center at UNH in the late 1970’s with an idea. After taking the job to start, setup, and run RCC, I quickly learned that finding financial support at the University was not all that easy. We scraped for every dollar, UNH faculty was not use to paying for service, but they liked the quality of the service, so that model did work (of course they never could pay enough).
I looked...
BitPhyer: Ethernet Testing for the Future
By Ethan Fahnestock - August 25, 2016
Is this test tool right for you?
BitPhyer’s intriguing ability to test even the strangest networking scenarios without much effort makes testing devices quick, efficient, and intuitive.
BitPhyer revolutionizes the use of FPGA’s for Ethernet conformance testing. I have been using BitPhyer for six months, and in that time I have adapted the tool to do multiple forms of conformance testing. The flexibility granted by the FPGA presents the opportunity to perform a diverse set of...