Early interop testing with Broadcom, Ikanos, Lantiq and Realtek. Huawei and Alcatel have shipped over two million ports of vectored VDSL that don't fully meet the standard. Only perhaps 20K of them actually are running in vectored mode.
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Broadband Forum holds VDSL2 G.vector interoperability test
July 16, 2013
Fourteen companies met in Durham, New Hampshire during the week of 17 June to participate in the interoperability testing of equipment implementing the ITU-T VDSL2 G.vector technologies. This plugfest is part of a series of interoperability test events organised by the Broadband Forum and hosted by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), focused on detailed testing of G.vector functionality. The participating companies were Actiontec Electronics, Adtran, Alcatel-Lucent, Broadcom, Calix, Exfo, Ikanos, JDSU, Lantiq, Netgear, Pace, Realtek Semiconductor and...
Several Companies Take Part in New Hampshire Testing Event at VDSL2 G.vector Interoperability Plugfest
July 12, 2013
The Broadband Forum (News - Alert), a non-profit industry organization, works to engineer quicker and more advanced broadband connections. It comes up with best practices for global networks, provides device and service management tools, and helps organizations come up with migration strategy on technology.
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July 11, 2013
A group of 14 vendors recently met for a second plugfest event at the University of New Hampshire-Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL), where they conducted interoperability testing of the G.Vector aspects of VDSL2.
Fourteen Companies Participate in Broadband Forum's Latest VDSL2 G.vector Interoperability Plugfest
July 9, 2013
FREMONT, Calif. & DURHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Operators around the world are looking to the G.vector technologies to provide a boost to the VDSL2 subscriber data rates, thereby meeting the needs of multi-service home and business customers. G.vector will likely also be utilized in new network architectures and technologies being developed now inside the Broadband Forum and ITU-T, such as the Fiber to the Distribution Point (FTTdp) and G.fast. Interoperability is vital to the growth of this technology.
UNH-IOL Uses TraceSpan's D-CABLE Xpert for IPv6 Validation of DOCSIS 3.0 eRouters
June 27, 2013
TraceSpan Communications, a leader in broadband analysis and monitoring solutions, announced today the expansion of the company's partnership with the UNH-IOL to IPv6 validation of DOCSIS 3.0 eRouters. In the frame of this partnership the UNH-IOL will use TraceSpan's D-CABLE Xpert multi-layer analyzer as part of their IPv6 test bench solutions.
Founders Celebrate Decade of WiFi in Downtown
June 22, 2013
PORTSMOUTH — Ten years of free wireless Internet access in the downtown came full circle for its founders Thursday in Market Square.
NVM Express Workgroup Holds First Plugfest
June 3, 2013
WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The NVM Express Workgroup, developer of the NVM Express specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) on a PCI Express (PCIe) bus, held its first Plugfest at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab in Durham, N.H., May 13-16, 2013. This event provided an opportunity for participants to measure their products' compliance with the NVM Express (NVMe) specification and to test interoperability with other NVMe products.
Broadband Forum: VDSL2 Vectoring Is Real and It
May 30, 2013
VDSL2 vectoring technology is here and it is real,†according to Robin Mersh, CEO of the Broadband Forum, and Lincoln Lavoie, senior engineer at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). Lavoie is involved in the Broadband Forum and is vice chair of the Metallic Transmission Technical Working Group.
UNH Embraces New Internet Protocol
May 2, 2013
In recent years, the number of connected internet and network devices has exploded. Each of these devices require a unique identifier called an IP Address. The IP Address is like a telephone number used to contact the device. The world is running out of IP addresses, and a new standard is being put in place to deal with the issue.