The UNH-IOL has been testing Ethernet products since its inception in 1988, and over the years we have come across some Ethernet products that really puzzled us. Here are the top problems we see.
Not supporting or disabling auto-negotiation: The importance of auto-negotiation (Aneg) to 100G interoperability was acknowledged by making it mandatory to be fully compliant to IEEE 802.3 Clauses 92 and 93. The more recent 25G standard also mandates Aneg.
Not supporting Aneg could...
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has begun offering 25 Gbps Ethernet Testing at its facility in Durham, New Hampshire, targeting equipment vendors that are selling to data center providers and service providers that are using higher network speeds to support cloud-based services.
While 10G is still a dominant network speed, Ethernet technology is migrating to 25 Gbps per lane to take on current silicon and system design. What makes 25 Gbps compelling is that it is...
DURHAM, N.H., September 13, 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 today the introduction of the 25 Gigabit (25G) Ethernet Testing Services at its state-of-the-art facility. Currently available to members of the 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium , UNH-IOL’s new services enable vendors to better prepare for market deployment of 25G...
BEAVERTON, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 – The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today shared details of its Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Plugfest at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in Durham, New Hampshire. The event demonstrated IEEE 802.3™-based PoE interoperability among devices from Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Linear Technology, Microsemi (Nasdaq: MSCC) and Texas Instruments.
“The plugfest showed that there is clearly market enthusiasm for standards-based PoE...
August 24th, 2016 by Rupert Dance, IBTA Compliance & Interoperability Work Group Co-Chair -- It’s that time again! Having finalized the RDMA over Converged Ethernet ( RoCE ) test results from Plugfest 29, the IBTA is pleased to announce the availability of the new RoCE Interoperability List . Designed to support data center managers, CIOs and other IT decision makers with their planned RoCE deployments for enterprise and high performance computing, the...
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, announced today the first commercial availability of two previously proprietary Ethernet testing tools: a Universal FPGA-based Ethernet Test (UFET) System and a 10 Gigabit System. These tools will be available to UNH-IOL member companies for purchase in late summer, 2016. Open access to these tools advances the UNH-IOL’s mission of improving data communications by allowing manufacturers...
BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capitalizing on the groundbreaking market impact of the most deployed Ethernet specification to-date, the 1000BASE-T standard, the Ethernet Alliance and the NBASE-T Alliance today announced a new collaborative effort designed to accelerate mainstream deployment of 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T Ethernet. This technology multiplies network throughput of the more than 70 billion meters of Cat5e and Cat6 cabling sold throughout the last 13 years. As part of the push to leverage this massive infrastructure, the two...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 8, 2016) - Validating the versatility, reliability and scalability that Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) has as a storage interface for enterprise-class storage, the SCSI Trade Association (STA) today announced the successful completion of its 17th SAS Plugfest, the fifth for 12Gb/s SAS. The event was held May 23-26, 2016, at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). Thirteen companies, including both STA members and non-members, participated.
"At this Plugfest, drive support for new...
Excelfore, a company working in connected car platforms, has announced that its Audio Video Bridging/Time Sensitive Networking (AVB/TSN) software stack platform for audio networking as well as video end points has achieved AVnu Certification, becoming the first AVB/TSN software reference module to bear the AVnu-certified logo.
The AVnu Alliance is an industry consortium driving open, standards-based deterministic networking; it grants its certification mark to those devices that have passed all interoperability testing conducted by its third-party testing house, the...
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, today announced it is hosting an Ethernet Alliance Power over Ethernet (PoE) interoperability test event, scheduled for March 29 - 31, 2016 at the UNH-IOL’s new laboratory in Durham, NH, USA. This multi-vendor plugfest for Ethernet Alliance members brings together a diverse array of equipment and technologies to test interoperability, as well as conformance with IEEE...