Wrapping up the OPNFV Colorado release work in 2016, the OPNFV Plugfest and co-located Hackfest in December brought together 70 participations from 23 different organizations. The international group, traveling in from Asia, Europe, and North America, converged at the UNH InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), in Durham, NH for a full week of activities. Fueled by coffee, snacks, fancy chocolates (someone brought from afar), and more coffee, participants spent the week running tests and various deployment scenarios, working with on and off-site...
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Interoperability Testing Evolves with Second OPNFV Plugfest
By Lincoln Lavoie - February 10, 2017
Final Thoughts About My Summer at the UNH-IOL
By Emily Burnham - January 19, 2017
Throughout this six week internship, I have learned a lot in such little time while at the IOL and I have enjoyed every moment. Some of my favorite times were rebuilding a computer, learning new code, as well as working with the other IP interns Tim, Grayson, Jasiah, and the rest of the IP team. In addition, the site visits were an eye-opening experience and very informative for my understanding of Computer Science.
During the first week at the...
Collaborating with Industry to Create Secure IoT Solutions
By Grayson Tutlle - January 19, 2017
Recently I had the opportunity to work on a Secure Internet of Things (IoT) demo with two collaborating companies, GlobalSign , a WebTrust-certified certificate authority and Infineon , a semiconductor manufacturer. The demo comprised of a Raspberry Pi single board computer, an Infineon Iridium TPM Board, and an LED light strip which was controlled through a secure website with certificates and provisioning through GlobalSign. Specifically, I was tasked with upgrading the demo to current hardware and technologies....
Interoperability Testing at the OPNFV Plugfest: Deployment, Network Integration and VNF Applications
By Karina Smith - November 16, 2016
We are looking forward to hosting the OPNFV Plugfest the week of December 5 - 9, 2016 at the UNH Interoperability Lab. The week-long event is a great opportunity for organizations to test the interoperability of specific OPNFV implementations over multiple hardware platforms as well as Virtual Network Functions (VNF)applications.
Plugfests provide a venue for to do real-time, hands-on testing with others in the industry. These events can be extremely valuable during the early stages of technology....
IOL: In The Beginning
By William Lenharth - October 31, 2016
It started with the Research Computing Center at UNH in the late 1970’s with an idea. After taking the job to start, setup, and run RCC, I quickly learned that finding financial support at the University was not all that easy. We scraped for every dollar, UNH faculty was not use to paying for service, but they liked the quality of the service, so that model did work (of course they never could pay enough).
I looked...
BitPhyer: Ethernet Testing for the Future
By Ethan Fahnestock - August 25, 2016
Is this test tool right for you?
BitPhyer’s intriguing ability to test even the strangest networking scenarios without much effort makes testing devices quick, efficient, and intuitive.
BitPhyer revolutionizes the use of FPGA’s for Ethernet conformance testing. I have been using BitPhyer for six months, and in that time I have adapted the tool to do multiple forms of conformance testing. The flexibility granted by the FPGA presents the opportunity to perform a diverse set of...
The BitPhyer 10G – The IOL’s 10GBase-R Ethernet Test Tool
By Sebastian Young - August 24, 2016
The UNH-IOL has a number of commercially available traffic generators that are used in 10Gb Ethernet conformance testing. These traffic generators allow us to send custom frames to DUTs (Devices Under Test) during conformance and interoperability testing. We can customize the type, size, and data payload of the frames, and we can even use these traffic generators to send specific patterns of different frames. Yet many tests of the underlying physical layer we identify in our test suites require a...
Tech Camps and the IOL helped me choose UNH
By Samantha Martell - August 18, 2016
Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Griffin Leclerc, a new employee at the UNH-IOL, to learn about what led him on his journey to working at the lab and where he hopes to be in the years to come.
I did not know it yet, but the first time I met Griffin Leclerc in the summer of 2013, was not going to be the last. Griffin was a rising sophomore at Trinity High School who chose to spend...
My Time as a High School Summer Intern at the IOL
By Matthew Jones - August 16, 2016
Nearing the final week of my internship I can say that I am amazed by the quality of my experience at the IOL. Not only have I been able to visit a number of companies ranging from larger corporations like Liberty Mutual and Verizon to smaller startups like QA Café, but I was able to use the knowledge learned in high school and put it to use in a real world application. On top of putting my skills to use,...
Broadband Forum TR-115 Testing at the UNH-IOL
By Connor Wynn - July 18, 2016
The UNH-IOL DSL consortium offers testing based on the Broadband Forum TR-115 test plan. This test is an excellent starting point in understanding the overall quality and functionality of the modem or DSLAM’s (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) VDSL2 transceiver. The test cases within this test plan cover a variety of different functions and capabilities that the transceivers should be able to perform. There are counters that track a wide variety of information such as code...