The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is an establishment visited by vendors and visitors traveling from all over the world to test their company’s technical equipment, devices and software, or to learn about the services we offer to our customers and others come to learn about opportunities we have for students interested in technology. Some of our guests are here to attend what we call Plugfest events, these events entail multiple technical companies coming together and testing their products with other company’s products. Other vendors come for “in-house testing”, which is a single company of one or more representatives coming in to test their products in our lab.

1. The University of New Hampshire
InterOperability Laboratory
Lab Overview
Erica Johnson, Director
www.iol.unh.edu
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2. The Laboratory
• Industry leading 3rd-party test facility for data, telecom and
storage networking technology & consumer electronics
• 100% funded by commercial industry
• 150+ companies
• 32,000 sq. ft lab facility – Boston, USA Metro Area
• 7,200 sq. ft pre-wired space dedicated to Plugfests
• Satellite Office in San Jose, CA
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3. Member Involvement
(150+ Companies)
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4. Where Technology and Education
Are One
Providing Quality Testing Developing Future
Services Engineers
• Students engage in strong
• Detailed test procedures and mentor system; staff
documentation reduce R&D Education members provide detailed
cycles training
Technology
• Reduced time to market • After several years of
employment, students are
• Thorough review process extremely competent
ensures concise and accurate
• Confidentiality training and
results NDA for all employees
• Reduced costs via student • Strong emphasis on
employment professionalism and industry
reputation
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5. UNH-IOL Industry Engagement
Devices
Results
Standards Groups Developers (R&D) Users
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6. Industry Involvement
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7. Technology Testing Areas
• IP • Digital Home Networking
– Routing ─ DLNA Certification
– USGv6 Testing
─ RVU Alliance Cert
– IPv6 Ready Program
– VoIP • Ethernet
• Storage ─ 10BASE-T Ethernet
– SAS ─ Fast Ethernet
– SATA ─ Gigabit Ethernet
– Fibre Channel ─ 10 Gigabit Ethernet
– Fibre Channel over Ethernet ─ 40/100 Gb/s Ethernet
– iSCSI ─ Power over Ethernet
– NVMe: NonVolatile Memory Express
─ Backplane
• Wireless LAN
– 802.11 a,b,g,n • Bridging
– Wi-Fi PreCertification ─ Audio-Video Bridging
• MIPI ─ Data Center Bridging
– Camera ─ MACsec
– Display ─ VLAN
– Battery Interface ─ Spanning Tree (Rapid/Multiple)
• Open Fabrics ─ Shortest Path Bridging / TRILL
– Infiniband (10-54Gbps) • Broadband
– iWARP (RDMA over TCP)
─ TR-069
– RoCE (RDMA over Ethernet)
─ GPON
• 1588 ─ DSL
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8. Our Mission
To provide a neutral environment to foster
multivendor interoperability, conformance to
standards, and improvement of data networking
while attracting students to, and educating them
for, future employment in cutting-edge technologies.
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9. Our Vision
To be the world's premier data networking
resource. Using our knowledge, tools, services
and relationships, we will enable the next
generation of technology and engineers.
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10. Our Values
Neutral, Secure, and Confidential
We are committed to neutrality above all other influences.
Integrity
We believe in unbiased results.
Professionalism
We treat our customers and each other with respect.
Financial Sustainability
We are planning for the future.
Thought Leadership
Ideas fuel the development of new technologies.
Empowered Employees
We provide the means, our employees do the rest.
Learning Institution
Our student employees are tomorrow's pioneers.
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11. Our Employees
• ~80 Undergraduate
• ~15 Masters
• ~20 Full time Staff
• ~5 CEPS Faculty
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12. Summer Internship Program
Application Deadline is April 27th 2012
The UNH-IOL High School Summer Internship Program, geared for high school
students, offers academically outstanding candidates an opportunity to earn money
while they gain invaluable experience working with global networking
companies including Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and Motorola. It is a seven-
week program presenting an overview of computer technology and offering hands-on
experiences in a real-world networking facility. Summer Interns are exposed to the
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering disciplines
programs offered by the University of New Hampshire.
•Take part in unique hands-on experiences
•Visit high tech corporations
•Meet experienced engineers
•Explore career opportunities
•Work one-on-one with UNH-IOL engineers
•Problem solving in new technologies
To Apply: http://www.iol.unh.edu/education/employment/internship.php
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