The STEM field, especially engineering and computer science, has been historically populated by men. This is caused by years of stereotyping and while the percentage of women in the field is slowly increasing, the ratio of men to women in the workforce is still severely unbalanced. Today, only about 20 percent of STEM jobs are occupied by women. To help combat this and spark interest in technology-based careers, the NH Department of Education, in partnership with the NH Community College...
IOL Blog Entries for April 2017
Breaking Barriers: My experience at the UNH Girls Technology Day
By Stephanie Lo - April 20, 2017
The IEEE Standards process, From Objectives to a Technology Standard
By Jason Sisk - April 13, 2017
For the last two years I have been an Electrical Engineering student at UNH and working at the IOL testing SAS technologies. This past summer I was asked to work with Curtis Donahue, Manager of Ethernet Technologies, on a fairly new testing service; Automotive Ethernet. Due to my experience at the IOL and working with industry standards, I had a great opportunity to attend an IEEE meeting in California. The IEEE standards are used all around the world in different...
ONIE Open Solutions Validating Services: Enabling Enterprises to Using Open Solutions in Data Center Technologies
By Karina Smith - April 5, 2017
Recently, the UNH-IOL launched the new Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) Logo Certification Program. ONIE allows a network operating system to be easily installed on any whitebox switch hardware that supports ONIE. ONIE is installed on the mass storage device in the switch during the manufacturing process and enables automation and installation of a NOS image once the switch is installed in the customer network. ONIE saves time and money for data center operation by automating NOS installation and updating...
Shipping the UNH-IOL’s First vIOLett 802.1 Core Test Software
By Charles McNaughton - April 3, 2017
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...