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The specification for the Mellanox DDR Proprietary Auto-negotiation protocol.

Introduction to the Model Industry Processor Interface technology and two ways of testing products associated with the MIPI technology.

The November test set explored several new areas, including VoIP via Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), wireless LANS and streaming video via Multicast. Particular areas of testing included IPsec, DNS, DHCP, iSCSI, routing, tunneling and QoS. The November testing was attended by 16 different vendors, and results proved that IPv6 is stable and capable of running key data communications applications (voice-based services and multicast).

This round of testing aimed to improve the conformance, stability, and internetworking capability of multiple commercial implementations of IPv6. The event was attended by 11 organizations. Where previous rounds of testing were focused on testing core network areas, objectives for this round were to demonstrate advances in IPv6 applications, including DHCP, voice services, mobility, DHCP, DNS/DHCP resolution, application layer (VoIP), and security (IPsec). A successful VoIP call was made over IPv6 from New Hampshire to South Korea using commercial software.

During the July 2006 test set, protocol-specific test plans were executed at both the UNH-IOL and the JITC Ft. Huachuca sites. IPv6 Information Assurance vulnerabilities assessment identified vulnerabilities in individual devices and within networks that are representative of operational DoD systems. Testing involved network applications including Network Time Protocol (NTP), DoD IPv6 Information Assurance, IPSec, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls and Applications, Transition Mechanisms and Dual-Stack Routing.

The testing documented in this paper took place in June 2007 and focused on end-to-end basic office application demonstrations including printing scenarios, NFS (Network File Share), web design tools, collaboration tools, and SHIM6(Site Multihoming By IPv6) in a multivendor environment.

Phase I of Moonv6 demonstrated that current IPv6 networking technology is stable, resilient and ready for integration with today\'s Internet. The event was attended by more than thirty different organizations and confirmed several stable and interoperable implementations of IPv6, and proved that IPv6 is ready to be deployed on a global scale. Specific aspects of IPv6 included common network applications, base specifications, transition mechanisms, routing protocols, security and mobility.

Phase II of the Moonv6 project established the largest native IPv6 network in the world. The second phase of the project was able to demonstrate high speed links, advanced routing functionality, firewalls, QoS, and other key features. More than two dozen organizations participated in Phase II, and testing was facilitated by engineers from nine separate sites.

This interoperability evaluation focused on the transport of differentiated services on a multi-vendor MPLS backbone supporting MPLS traffic engineering. The MPLS World Congress 2004 demonstrated differentiated services over MPLS and MPLS traffic engineering. Multi-vendor MPLS/BGP VPN\'s and Layer 2 Ethernet VPN\'s (Martini and VPLS) were configured to prove that services were traffic engineering-enabled and could process differentiated services.

The second MPLS World Congress interoperability event included 10 different companies and was hosted by the MPLS Forum and Frame Relay Alliance at the EANTC labs in Berlin, Germany. The demonstration, held at the MPLS World Congress in Paris, proved that MPLS Layer 2 Ethernet-based VPNs are ready for large scale deployment. Also demonstrated were minimal MPLS ping and traceroute implementations.

The MPLS World Congress 2006 interoperability event included 15 different companies and was hosted by the EANTC and UNH-IOL and was endorsed by the MPLS Forum and Frame Relay Alliance, held in Berlin, Germany. This event focused the convergence of both old and new MPLS services such as VPLS, BGP-VPNs, Layer 2 VPNs while still being guaranteed by Fast Reroute and MPLS Diff Serve. The event was especially successful in focusing on converged services as it included all classes of MPLS devices.

This state machine flow chart covers a summary of the rules specified in RFC 4861 Sections 7.2 and 7.3.

A series of networking tutorials focused on Ethernet technology.

In this presentation, Lincoln Lavoie, details new and expanded WiFi testing and measurement capabilities being offered at the lab. Robust testing and measurement is key to the continuous improvement of broadband services, and WiFi performance has become critical to that equation. This is a webinar available on our YouTube page.
 

This is a collection of published papers assembled as a reference for those involved in characterizing and specifying high-performance clocks and oscillators. It is an interim replacement for NBS Monograph 140, Time and Frequency: Theory and Fundamentals, an older volume of papers edited by Byron E. Blair. This current volume includes tutorial papers, papers on standards and definitions, and a collection of papers detailing specific measurement and analysis techniques. The discussion in the introduction to the volume provides a guide to the content of the papers, and tables and graphs provide further help in organizing methods described in the papers

Join the UNH-IOL as we walk thru which tests are mandatory for Plugfest #9 based on testing from our previous Plugfest (#8). We will review for both NVMe drives and NVMe-oF targets. In addition, we will walk thru the new tests that have been added for NVMe v1.3 features.

All things NVMe Integrator's List in this facts graphic. Click to learn and see the evolution of the list, product types listed, and more. The NVMe Integrator's List currently consists of configurations that have proven to be interoperable and conformant to NVMe standards.

In this webinar Kerry Munson & David Woolf, UNH-IOL, will walk thru new test areas and requirements related to NVMe-MI and NVMe-OF. We will also have a walkthrough on IOL INTERACT including recent updates. This will help attendees prepare for the Plugfest held on Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2017.

We have been a leader and expert in NVMe^® Testing Services for several years providing conformance and interoperability testing. In addition, storage vendors from around the world test against NVMe standards to qualify them for the NVMe Integrator's List. The NVMe Integrator's List currently consists of configurations that have proven to be interoperable and conformant to NVMe standards. Here is a quick graphic highlighting the process of getting products on the list.

Take a video tour of our wireless testing here at the lab with our state of the art octoScope Test Bed. Our wireless testing focuses on performance and quality of experience for the 802.11 WiFi technologies. Our octoScope testbed includes two 26” octoboxes, and one 38” octoBox with controllable turntable. It can also be configured for video over Wi-Fi testing, mesh testing (self-forming, self-healing functions of a mesh), high speed roaming and other wireless tests.

The OPEN (One-Pair Ether-Net) Alliance is designed to encourage wide scale adoption of Ethernet-based, single pair unshielded networks as the standard in automotive applications. The jointly developed OPEN Alliance SIG (Special Interest Group) will address industry requirements for improving in-vehicle safety, comfort, and infotainment, while significantly reducing network complexity and cabling costs.

The first OSRM event, held at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), provided an aggressive carrier-class environment for GMPLS testing including several GMPLS interworking scenarios that had not been achieved in previous multi-vendor test settings. The testing, conducted by the UNH-IOL OSRM test group, involved a variety of test cases that focused on stability testing, control channel fault handling and data channel failure recovery.

The second UNH-IOL OSRM test event included seven different companies and was designed in collaboration with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) and the participants to validate and prove GMPLS functionality in a multi-vendor network. This collaboration generated an exceptionally realistic and demanding test suite in line with service providers\' operational demands, rather than simple conformance or interoperability scenarios.

The third UNH-IOL OSRM test event was designed with a new focus on the failure recovery mechanisms of a GMPLS network. The event provided a vendor-neutral setting that gave participants an opportunity to assess interoperability and valuable feedback to assist them in refining their implementations. Testing included interconnected products demonstrating the functionality of various aspects of explicit route and label control to set up GMPLS traffic engineered most suitable path, control channel failure recovery, data plane failure recovery by multi-layer traffic engineering, end-to-end protection in signaling, and the ability of GMPLS to manage diverse networks with increased scalability.