Today’s open source landscape features an ever-expanding number of mature projects with development activity spanning across multiple organizations. Developers on these projects come from large and small enterprises, educational institutions, and a pool of unaffiliated, open source developers. This diverse group of contributors work together to enable their projects’ core goals or use cases. However, with this diversity of projects, developers, and outcomes, there are challenges. How can we reliably meet the needs of all stakeholders? When setting up a...
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5 Lessons Learned in Hosting a CI Test Lab at IOL For Open Source Projects
By Patrick Robb - September 26, 2024
Virtual Machines with Bridges on VMware vSphere
By Lincoln Lavoie - March 6, 2023
In a recent project, we decided to explore using the Cisco NX-OS 9000v virtual switch as part of our pre-deployment testing infrastructure. The virtual switch functions identical to our actual NX-OS hardware switches, but with the benefit of running purely as a virtual machine (VM) or appliance on top of our cloud infrastructure. That cloud infrastructure is a multi-node vSphere deployment, that uses distributed vSwitches, each having multiple uplink port groups, to provide high availability across the network domains. Figure...
The DPDK Community Lab: Reflecting on 2022 and Looking Ahead
By Patrick Robb - February 28, 2023
Hosted by The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), the DPDK Community Lab exists to provide prompt and reliable continuous integration(CI) testing for all new patches submitted to DPDK by its community of developers. Every time a patch is submitted to DPDK Patchwork, it is automatically applied to the main DPDK branch, or the appropriate next- branch, and run across our test beds. Now entering its 6th year in operation, the Community Lab has progressed beyond its initial goal...
Students Thrive in the Success of UNH-IOL Software Tools
By Mara Johnson - December 21, 2015
Here at the UNH-InterOperability laboratory ( UNH-IOL ) we work with over 150 students each year. We pride ourselves on providing hands-on, real world training to these students prior to graduation. And by ‘real world’ training, we mean just that. Since 1988, our lab has allowed undergraduates to prepare for careers in the industry testing multi-vendor interoperability. We provide professional networking and data testing services to companies of all sizes from around the world, including several Fortune 500’s. In...
The UNH-IOL: A Transformative Journey from High School to College
By John Petlon - October 26, 2015
Joel Nkounkou, a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) working towards his computer engineering degree, is also a three year veteran at the UNH-IOL. He began his time at the lab in 2013 when he was accepted into the UNH-IOL High School Summer Internship Program. His engineering teacher at Dover High School told him about the program and his family encouraged him to apply. Initially, Joel worked in the Home Networking Consortium (HNC) alongside industry professionals, gaining real-world...
Going Back to School with STEM
By John Petlon - September 11, 2015
Throughout my time at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the UNH-IOL, I have reached the understanding of what it means to be well balanced in my education and the importance of STEM programs in education. STEM programs allow students to look into the realms of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics beyond the definitions of the words themselves and into the real world applications of the trades. Each facet of STEM opens doors to infinite opportunities in countless industries...
Succeed and Soar in Your Time at the UNH-IOL
By Griffin Leclerc - September 4, 2015
Greetings fellow intern and congratulations on your recent employment here at the UNH-IOL. The experiences you will have at this job will serve you throughout your entire career. Not just the skills that you will receive in your consortium, but the social and work skills alone will last you a lifetime. No matter what major you decide to pursue in your college career, you will always benefit from the skills you learned here during your internship. Now earning these skills...
High School Summer Internship 10 Years in the Making
By Samantha Martell - July 17, 2015
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) will be holding a special recognition ceremony during the 2015 internship ceremony. This event will be held on August 20th at 2:00pm. This event will provide an opportunity for all UNH-IOL internship alumni, sponsors, family and the community to see how the program has grown and how it impacts the participants involved.
Each year the UNH-IOL recruits bright and ambitious students interested in networking and data communications for the established ...
Network Operations for Interop Las Vegas
By Ainsley-Aude Croteau - June 2, 2015
During the week of April 22nd, UNH-IOL students Joel Nkounkou and I went to Las Vegas, NV to volunteer for the NOC (Network Operations Center) team at Interop Las Vegas. Interop Las Vegas is one of the largest technical conferences and trade shows for the IT industry where companies set up elaborate stations on the expo show floor to promote their products to other companies. Interop Las Vegas also provides educational classes in a variety of topics to their attendees...
The Oyster River Internship Program – Intro to Hardware
By Tyler Collins - March 23, 2015
Choosing a career path before college can be a scary process. The UNH-IOL partners with Oyster River High School to hold an internship program for students to receive school credit. This program helps high school students explore the wide scope of technical fields before committing to a major. Along with providing students with guidance towards their preferred academic field, the program allows the students to put their foot in the door and gain valuable experience before diving into academia. "Learning...
Themes of the Career Paths in STEM Panel
By Marion Dillon - March 16, 2015
On Tuesday, February 24th , a group of UNH students gathered to meet members of various STEM industries to hear advice from professionals and to hone their networking skills. Participating companies included CDM Smith, Liberty Mutual, Raytheon, Summit Engineering, Texas Instruments, and QA Cafe. Dr. Robert Henry, from UNH’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department, moderated a panel session, where each panelist shared their take on their industry, and STEM fields as a whole.
As it often...
Help support one of the UNH-IOL Gift Funds – Donate Today!
By Samantha Martell - January 22, 2015
By donating to the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) Gift Fund, you are enabling a unique opportunity to expose and educate the next generation of engineers. Funds will go directly to resources for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) initiative, supporting numerous programs and opportunities geared towards middle school and high school students.
UNH-IOL, High School Internship Program
Each year the UNH-IOL recruits bright and ambitious students interested in networking and data communications for...
Great Bay Students Connecting With UNH-IOL
By Ainsley-Aude Croteau - December 11, 2014
On November 18th, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) made a trip to Great Bay Community College (GBCC) to speak with engineering students enrolled in a First Year Seminar course about job opportunities at the lab during their college years. This course is aimed to teach students skills that will help them be successful throughout their college career and helps open engineering students up to future careers. Among speakers were Suzanne Snow, Marketing and Communications Manager...