The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (IOL) has signed a 20-year lease to relocate to the new $30 million Madbury Commons building being built in downtown Durham. The IOL offers third-party neutral testing services for data communications, networking and storage industries. IOL employs students from around the state, allowing them to get hands-on experience with companies around the world, such as Apple and Intel. Students can work with the companies one-on-one to test equipment, which helps them to gain...
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UNH's InterOperability Lab Signs Lease
February 21, 2014
DURHAM, N.H. - University of New Hampshire officials have signed a 20-year lease that will make its InterOperability Lab (IOL) the anchor tenant in a new $30 million development poised to enhance and expand the downtown area. Madbury Commons recently received final town planning board approval for the mixed-use development on 2.6 acres in the heart of downtown Durham with 126 apartments, housing 525 students, and 45,000 square feet of commercial space. The IOL will occupy 25,000 of those square...
NVMe Plugfest Webinar - An Interop Event for NVMe SSDs
January 17, 2014
With the second NVM Express (NVMe) Plugfest approaching, the University or New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) is providing a webinar titled "NVMe Plugfest Webinar - An Interop Event for NVMe SSDs" provide information to UNH-IOL members and non-members. The session will be led by David Woolf and is designed to provide information on the upcoming Plugfest and the benefits of being a UNH-IOL member to enterprise server, storage or subsystem vendor companies developing NVMe products. The webinar takes place January...
Access "Our predictions of the hot data storage trends for 2014"
January 10, 2014
For the eleventh year, Storage magazine and SearchStorage editors offer their list of storage technologies likely to have an impact on data centers in the coming year. Our choices focus on techs that have matured to the point where they're viable for data centers and likely to improve operations. Find out why next-generation solid-state storage, primary storage deduplication, hyper-converged storage, backup appliances, OpenStack storage and cloud-integrated storage are our hot data storage trends for 2014.
Hot data storage technologies for 2014
January 10, 2014
If you've read one of our technology prognostications before, you know the drill: we don't pick pie-in-the-sky projects as our hot data storage technologies. Rather we focus on the new, and newish, storage techs that we think are poised to have an impact on your shops in the coming year.
802.11ac Benefits: The Myths And The Reality
December 5, 2013
As the ever-ambitious wireless manufacturers rush to get their own iterations of devices supporting 802.11ac on the shelves, hype about how the average end user will benefit from this new wireless standard overshadows its real advantages.
Like 802.11n before it, there are so many impressive and exciting features defining 802.11ac that people are having difficulty grasping the reality of the standard and how it will improve user experience. As a result, many manufacturers try to nonchalantly summarize the new...
VDSL2 Test Lab Coming Online
December 3, 2013
Global xDSL test equipment solution provider Telebyte recently announced the opening of the world's first independent G.vector Test Laboratory, co-located and operated by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL).
UNH-IOL Hosts First Ever 100 Mbps Multi-Vendor VDSL2 Vectoring Demonstration in Broadband Forum
November 13, 2013
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - For the first time ever, the UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire-Interoperability Lab) will organize a live VDSL2 Vectoring multi-vendor demonstration in the Broadband Forum's Interoperability Pavilion at this month's Broadband World Forum, held October 22-24 in Amsterdam. Demonstrating for the first time how service providers can move beyond single home service with VDSL2 to extending high speed VDSL2 throughout the neighborhood, overcoming crosstalk issues caused by bundled copper pairs. In one year, UNH...
UNH-IOL, Telebyte Open G.Vector Test Lab
October 30, 2013
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) and Telebyte have announced the opening of a testing lab for VDSL2 vectoring technology. It's the first lab capable of testing VDSL2 vectoring, also known as G.vector.
Telebyte opens G.vector Test Laboratory
October 26, 2013
US-based global xDSL test equipment service provider, Telebyte has announced the opening of its G.vector Test Laboratory. The test lab, co-located at and operated by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), will utilise Telebyte's suite of VDSL2 Vectoring test equipment and UHN-IOL knowledge to provide testing per the Broadband Forum's WT-249/TR-249 standard and beyond. The Telebyte G.vector Test Laboratory offers advanced services to streamline the testing processes and help service providers and equipment vendors to ensure their technology...