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Best Practices for G.fast System Testing

December 5, 2016

G.fast is a new copper broadband technology that enables throughput of better than 1 Gb/s over a single twisted pair. The technology is based on a signal modulation scheme very similar to the DMT modulation used in VDSL2, with one notable exception, G.fast transceivers utilize time-division duplexing instead of the frequency-division duplexing used in VDSL2.

G.fast also borrows many other advances from VDSL2, including seamless rate adaption (SRA), bit swapping, retransmission, dying gasp, and vectoring. In addition, G.fast includes...

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OIF Partners With UNH-IOL to Certify Optical Control Plane UNI

November 3, 2016

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) today announced an agreement with the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, to provide certification for Optical Control Plane User Network Interfaces (UNI) based on industry standards. In line with OIF’s mission to enable global interoperability in optical transport networks, the Forum’s certification program will address the interoperability of optical and packet products, complementing OIF’s work on unlocking...

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The UNH-IOL Adds Interoperable Combinations to the Open Networking Integrators List

November 3, 2016

DURHAM, N.H., November 3, 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, announced the latest updates to the Open Networking Integrators List . As well, the UNH-IOL shared details of its recent Open Networking Plugfest held at the UNH-IOL’s state of the art lab. Focusing on 100G switches, cables, and optics, the event offered a valuable, multi-vendor environment in which member...

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The UNH-IOL Approved as First Independent Test Lab for the MIPI Product Registry

November 2, 2016

Durham, N.H.,--November 2, 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, announced they are now a test lab for MIPI Alliance members looking to submit their products to the MIPI Product Registry.

As an independent test lab, the UNH-IOL has the ability to test any MIPI Alliance members’ mobile devices for conformance to MIPI specifications with the intent that...

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The Importance of Auto-Negotiation in Ethernet Architectures

October 28, 2016

The critical role of standards in today’s environment is often overlooked, because their inherent nature is to make sure you don’t notice it working. Imagine going on a job interview in a world without standards. If you were to ask someone for directions to your interview, they might tell you it’s 500 steps away, but they have a longer stride so you ended up having to walk 1000 steps and you were late. You take out your laptop to give...

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Facebook 100G switch accepted by OCP, delivered to users

October 19, 2016

A new version of Facebook’s 100Gb top-of-rack data center switch, the Wedge 100, has been accepted by the Open Compute Project (OCP) and delivered to the wider world as a product from Edgecore Networks.

The Wedge 100 is a 32 port 100GBE switch, built by Accton Technology to Facebook’s design, for use within Facebook’s data centers. The design has been shared, and accepted by the Open Compute Project, and meanwhile Accton is making a commercial version of the switch,...

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The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Rollout: Expect the new Ethernet standard show up quickly in data centers and campus networks

October 18, 2016

IP traffic is predicted to grow 10 fold in less than 10 years. This fact alone speaks to why even incremental increases in Ethernet speeds are important. The ever-rising demand for data is driven by cloud services and already can be seen in early Internet of Things devices. This trend helped lead to development of the 25 Gigabit Ethernet data rates. Even though the technology is rather new, in the two years since the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium was created,...

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Top Companies Partner with UNH-IOL to Showcase Live Interoperability Demo at Broadband Forum 2016

October 18, 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, is excited to partner up with six companies to showcase the industry's first cross-chipset interoperability demo at this week’s Broadband World Forum (BBWF) taking place at the ExCeL Convention Centre, Royal Victoria Dock, London at booth (D30). Companies include Calix ; Digital Lightwave (A Division of VeEX); Huawei ; Metanoia Communications,...

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UNH-IOL to conduct G.fast technology chipset interop at Broadband World Forum

October 14, 2016

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) will host a multi-vendor G.fast interoperability demonstration with six vendors during next week’s Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in London with an aim to accelerate network rollouts and service delivery.

Calix, Digital Lightwave, Huawei, Metanoia Communications, Technicolor and Telebyte are among the vendors taking part in the demonstration.

During the event, UNH-IOL’s demo will show cross-chipset interoperability among solutions from multiple demarcation point unit (DPU) and customer premises equipment (CPE) vendors,...

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UNH-IOL plans G.fast interoperability demo at 2016 Broadband World Forum

October 14, 2016

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) says it will take its interop capabilities on the road to London next week to host a multi-vendor G.fast interoperability demonstration within the Broadband Forum Interoperability Pavilion at the Broadband World Forum (BBWF), October 18-20. The demonstration aims to display interoperability among products from six companies based on chipsets from three different providers.

The UNH-IOL say it also will have the time to show live testing during the demo based upon...

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