IOL vIOLett

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...

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We are Jimmy Trinh and Chip McNaughton, Computer Science students at the University of New Hampshire. We work at the University of New Hampshire - InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) in the Ethernet Switching Protocols (ESP) Consortium. In ESP, vendors send devices to us to perform conformance and interoperability test evaluation. We deal with Layer 2 switches and data center devices. This winter we started to work on one of ESP’s ongoing software development projects, ESP-vIOLett (versatile IOL-evaluation test tool). The goal of ESP-vIOLett is to help automate our test suites and create a product that is usable for industry. Vendors will then be able to pre-test their equipment in-house before it is officially tested at the IOL.