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...
Open Networking (OCP) News
The UNH-IOL Adds Interoperable Combinations to the Open Networking Integrators List
November 3, 2016
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,...
UNH lab peers under the hood as software invades network systems
August 2, 2016
You may have heard the quip “software is eating the world” to describe the way many tasks once done by people or machines are now being done by computers and computer networks. Turns out, software is eating computer networks, too.
For years, the UNH InterOperability Lab in Durham, one of the state’s quietest high-tech success stories, has been testing networking hardware like Ethernet switches and controllers, the machinery that makes the internet work, via consortiums of industry and academic...
Open Compute Project Hosts Engineering Workshop at University of New Hampshire
July 21, 2016
Durham, N.H., July 18, 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, is excited to announce they will be hosting the upcoming Open Compute Project (OCP) Engineering Workshop on August 10, 2016 at the UNH Durham, NH campus. This one day event will focus on the OCP technology portfolio, driving the product-ionization of OCP specifications, as well as building out...
AppFest 2016: Testing at UNH-IOL
May 25, 2016
Rick Bauer provides a recap of the recent ONF AppFest at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab in this two part series.
We just returned from the second annual ONF AppFest, sponsored by the ONF Testing & Interoperability Working Group and the ONF Testing Leadership Council. In our next post, we’ll cover a similar event hosted by Beijing Internet Institute (BII) in Beijing—another ONF testing event (too much to cover these days!) The North American event was held...
ONF to Hold 2nd Annual AppFest For Application and OpenFlow Interoperability Testing at The UNH-IOL
April 6, 2016
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 6, 2016 – The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today announced open registration for the organization’s annual interoperability event. AppFest 2016 will be held May 16-19, 2016 at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, and also an authorized OpenFlow® testing lab. This year’s AppFest will feature ONF’s first-ever...
Trusting White Boxes
October 20, 2015
The IT kit in data centers could get a lot more efficient and less wasteful, if people move to standardized, “white boxes” based on open standards, instead of the proprietary kit they use now. But so far, there’s a trust issue: can you rely on a no-name box?
There are definite signs that users are moving towards converged hardware, including unbranded servers. According to a survey of 850 IT decision makers by 451 Research, the majority of enterprise data...
UNH-IOL Publishes Open Compute List
October 15, 2015
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has released an Open Networking Integrator’s List public directory of independently validated, interoperable combinations of networking products that are based on Open Compute Specifications.
The list is based on successful completion of interoperability and conformance tests performed at the laboratory’s most recent Open Networking Plugfest, held September 21-25, 2015 at the UNH-IOL. Devices tested during the Open Networking Plugfest included network operating system (NOS) software, 10G and 40G switches, optical modules,...
New List Details Open Network Interoperability
October 13, 2015
The networking project of the Open Compute Project and the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab today jointly released what they are calling the "consumer reports for open networking" -- an open networking integrator's list of hardware, operating systems, cables and optics that are known to work together.
They are calling the UNH-IOL's Open Networking Integrator's List, which you can find here, "the first and only public directory of independently validated, interoperable combinations of networking products that are based...
Open Compute tests launched at University of New Hampshire
October 9, 2015
A university testing lab with more than 25 years experience has published a list of interoperable networking products meeting Open Compute Project (OCP) standards have been listed online, making it easier for data center builders to create efficient flexible IT systems.
The University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has published the Open Network Integrator’s List - a compilation of products which have been validated as interoperating under the networking standards emerging from the Open Compute Project - the...