This week, Industry Outlook asks David Woolf, Senior Engineer of Datacenter Technologies at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), about NVMe and NVMe-oF and their role in storage and the data center. David has developed dozens of industry-reviewed test procedures and implementations as part of the team that has built the UNH-IOL into a world-class center for interoperability and conformance testing. He has also helped to organize numerous industry interoperability test events at both at the UNH-IOL facility...
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Driving By Ethernet
February 1, 2018
The race to add more sophisticated and safety-critical electronics into cars is forcing carmakers to revisit the communications systems within increasingly electrified and connected vehicles.
Until very recently, communication between components within a vehicle was simplistic, and communication between vehicles was non-existent. All of that is changing quickly. Rapid and secure communication between more electronics within a car, between cars, and between cars and infrastructure are essential pieces of assisted and autonomous driving.
However, not all of the...
First 37 Products Certified by PoE Certification Program
January 16, 2018
BEAVERTON, OR, JANUARY 16, 2018 – The Ethernet Alliance , a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today announced the certification of the first 37 Power over Ethernet (PoE) products through its new PoE certification program. Products from multiple Ethernet industry leaders were tested at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in Durham, N.H. Newly certified products range from component level evaluation boards, to power sourcing equipment (PSE) enterprise switches, to...
UNH-IOL Launches New Testing Services for 1000BASE-T1 Electrical Signaling (PMA) and 100BASE-T1 Interoperability in Automotive Ethernet
January 16, 2018
DURHAM, N.H., January 16, 2018 – The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, today announced the introduction of two new services to its Automotive Ethernet Test Services offerings: 1000BASE-T1 Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) sublayer testing and 100BASE-T1 interoperability testing. UNH-IOL is the first lab to offer 1000BASE-T1 PMA testing service in response to the automotive industry’s exploration of utilizing higher speed Ethernet applications.
As...
The UNH InterOperability Lab Now Uses The Axiros ACS In Home Networking Test Services
January 10, 2018
13 December 2017 – MUNICH, GERMANY – Axiros, a global leader in the Internet of Things, Machine to Machine, TR-069, and device management industries, is pleased to announce that the company’s ACS software is now available at the University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) Home Networking testing service.
The Axiros ACS serves as an interop equipment partner for the UNH-IOL’s Home Networking Test Services. This service, offered at the UNH-IOL, performs product testing specific to managing home environments...
UNH-IOL Offers NVMe-oF Testing, Software, List
January 8, 2018
The University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab is now offering NVMe-oF testing services and related resources. This leading facility, based in Durham, is an NBASE-T member.
NVMe-oF stands for Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics. This standard enables data centers to access flash and solid-state drives over Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks. That allows them to run applications using a much larger storage pool than is possible with NVMe alone.
But in announcing this news, UNH-IOL – which in...
Second Industry-Wide, Multi-Vendor Plugfest Focused on NVMeTM Over Fibre Channel Fabric Completed by Fibre Channel Industry Association
January 3, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS, December 13, 2017 – The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) today announced the completion of its second industry-wide multi-vendor plugfest focused on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe™) over Fibre Channel (FC) Fabric and the first validation of the newly completed INCITS T11 FCNVMe standard.
FCIA’s FC-NVMe plugfest was held during the NVM Express® organization’s management interface (NVMe-MI) plugfest, the week of October 30, 2017, at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL). An independent provider of...
Ethernet Alliance Sees Tremendous Success with 25GBASE-R and 100GBASE-R Plugfest
December 14, 2017
BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today released results of its recent plugfest. Held June 26 – 30, 2017 at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in Durham, N.H., the multivendor event centered on testing of 25GBASE-R and 100GBASE-R physical optical Ethernet interfaces. The highly successful event highlights the quickening migration to higher speed connectivity for data center and other applications.
“The next Ethernet era...
Toshiba Memory America’s Storage Node Software Obtains Industry-First NVMe-oF Certification
December 13, 2017
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the US-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, today announced that its storage node software, which enables low latency networked flash storage for cloud architectures, was the first to be certified by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). As the leading testing and certification lab for NVMe technology and software, the UNH-IOL thoroughly tested TMA’s software with RoCE NIC in the storage node at its NVMe Plugfest #8, held October 30...
UNH-IOL Drives NVM Express (NVMe) Technology Forward for Storage Industry
December 13, 2017
DURHAM, N.H., December 13, 2017 – 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 the launch of its NVM Express over Fabrics (NVME-oF) testing services and the release of its NVMe-oF Integrators List .
The first successful compliance and interoperability testing of NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) occurred at the NVM Express (NVMe) Plugfest held October 30, 2017 to November 2, 2017 in conjunction...