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Ethernet Alliance Plugfest Showcases 100 Percent Interoperability of IEEE 802.3™ Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Products

September 7, 2016

BEAVERTON, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 – The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today shared details of its Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Plugfest at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in Durham, New Hampshire. The event demonstrated IEEE 802.3™-based PoE interoperability among devices from Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Linear Technology, Microsemi (Nasdaq: MSCC) and Texas Instruments.

“The plugfest showed that there is clearly market enthusiasm for standards-based PoE...

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New RoCE Interoperability List Features Higher Test Speeds, Additional Vendors

August 25, 2016

August 24th, 2016 by Rupert Dance, IBTA Compliance & Interoperability Work Group Co-Chair -- It’s that time again! Having finalized the RDMA over Converged Ethernet ( RoCE ) test results from Plugfest 29, the IBTA is pleased to announce the availability of the new RoCE Interoperability List . Designed to support data center managers, CIOs and other IT decision makers with their planned RoCE deployments for enterprise and high performance computing, the...

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UNH-IOL Licenses Ethernet Test Tools for In-house Validation

August 9, 2016

DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, announced today the first commercial availability of two previously proprietary Ethernet testing tools: a Universal FPGA-based Ethernet Test (UFET) System and a 10 Gigabit System. These tools will be available to UNH-IOL member companies for purchase in late summer, 2016. Open access to these tools advances the UNH-IOL’s mission of improving data communications by allowing manufacturers...

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Brain4Net Joins Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Consortium Organized by UNH-IOL

August 2, 2016

Cambridge, MA, 2016-Aug-01 — /EPR Network/ — Brain4Net, an innovative SDN/NFV solution vendor for service providers and enterprises, today announced it has joined the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Consortium at the The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). Brain4Net, in collaboration with SDN Consortium members, will participate in joint interoperability, conformance and performance products testing sessions. Company benefits from leveraging the UNH-IOL’s unequaled SDN testing capability, independent technology leadership verification and accelerated time-to-market of new solutions and product releases....

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UNH lab peers under the hood as software invades network systems

August 2, 2016

You may have heard the quip “software is eating the world” to describe the way many tasks once done by people or machines are now being done by computers and computer networks. Turns out, software is eating computer networks, too.

For years, the UNH InterOperability Lab in Durham, one of the state’s quietest high-tech success stories, has been testing networking hardware like Ethernet switches and controllers, the machinery that makes the internet work, via consortiums of industry and academic...

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Ethernet and NBASE-T Alliances to Host Joint Plugfest to Drive Widespread Deployment of Next Generation 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps Ethernet Technology

July 25, 2016

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capitalizing on the groundbreaking market impact of the most deployed Ethernet specification to-date, the 1000BASE-T standard, the Ethernet Alliance and the NBASE-T Alliance today announced a new collaborative effort designed to accelerate mainstream deployment of 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T Ethernet. This technology multiplies network throughput of the more than 70 billion meters of Cat5e and Cat6 cabling sold throughout the last 13 years. As part of the push to leverage this massive infrastructure, the two...

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Open Compute Project Hosts Engineering Workshop at University of New Hampshire

July 21, 2016

Durham, N.H., July 18, 2016 -- The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, is excited to announce they will be hosting the upcoming Open Compute Project (OCP) Engineering Workshop on August 10, 2016 at the UNH Durham, NH campus. This one day event will focus on the OCP technology portfolio, driving the product-ionization of OCP specifications, as well as building out...

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AT&T to open source its SDN platform, as SDN test consortium launches

July 18, 2016

AT&T has announced that it is committed to releasing into open source the software platform that powers its software-defined network (SDN). It says that making its Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) platform available in open source will enable global service providers and cloud developers to meet the growing data-hungry network demands of new services. Data traffic on AT&T’s own wireless network grew more than 150,000 per cent between 2007 and 2015.

“In March, we opened the hood...

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The UNH-IOL Has Joined The LoRa Alliance: Assisting LoRa members with certification programs in the world of IoT development.

July 18, 2016

Durham, N.H., July 18, 2016 -- The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory ( UNH-IOL ) , an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, would like to announce its recent membership into the LoRa Alliance . The LoRa Alliance is a non-profit organization composed of members who are committed to the advancement of the Internet of Things ( IoT ). The association believes in collaborations and sharing experience in...

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UNH-IOL Sets Up SDN Test Consortium

July 18, 2016

With a facility already brimming with switches from the likes of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD), Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise , the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (IOL) announced a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Consortium that will perform controller and switch interoperability, conformance and benchmark testing.

UNH-IOL has established itself as a reliable third-party provider of test services, working with the Broadband Forum the Institute of Electrical and...

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