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1. The University of New Hampshire
InterOperability Laboratory
(UNH-IOL)
www.iol.unh.edu
Industry collaboration with UNH-IOL’s new
SDN Consortium

2. •UNH-IOL Launches Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) Consortium
o Goals of fostering Industry-wide Collaboration
o Access to multi-million-dollar SDN switch test
bed and professional services.
o Opens for Members on August 1, 2016.
o Trains the engineers of tomorrow in SDN.
o Annual Membership fee of $20,000
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Today’s News

3. •IOL
o Who and What
o Industry Engagement and Involvement
•New SDN Consortium
o State of SDN
o SDN Interoperability and Conformance
o Performance Testing
o Use Cases
o Student Training
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Presentation Outline

4. Who is the IOL?
• A neutral and independentlab that tests networking and data communications
products for businesses across the globe.
• Started in 1988 on the University of New Hampshire Durham, NH campus.
• Non-profit organization and 100%funded by commercial industry with over
150+ member companies.
• State of the art facility with 28,000+ sq. ft. (1 hour outside Boston, USA).
• 4,200 sq. feet of pre-wired space dedicated to Plugfests.
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5. • We enable multivendor interoperability, conformance testing and develop
custom testing solutions.
• Through our industry involvement we are able to provide guidance and
insight into new technology areas with testing needsand certification for
testing programs.
• Promote early adoption through collaborative group testing (Plugfests).
• Offer members access to our world-class, multi-million dollar shared test
bed which continues to grow.
• Funded 100%by commercial industry.
What IOL Does
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6. Standards Groups
Developers (R&D)
Industry Engagement
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Standards
Groups
Users
Developers
(R&D)
Standards
Feedback
Test Ideas
Feedback & Results
Devices
Results

7. Industry Involvement
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8. •SDN solutions have become integral to
network deployments.
o Directly programmable networks are essential as
the complexity of networks grows.
o According to one IDC forecast SDN Market will
be 12.5 billion by 2020.
•SDN deployments need to support multi-
vendors NEMs to match real world
deployments.
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State of SDN

9. •The new SDN consortium will offer the
following:
o Interoperability testing between switches and
controllers.
o ONF OpenFlow Conformance Switch
Certification.
o Benchmarking Methodology for OpenFlow SDN
Controller.
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SDN Consortium

10. •The UNH-IOL has one of the most extensive
switch test beds in the world.
o Allows for Controllers/Applications to perform
Interoperability testing with a large variety of
switches.
•OpenDaylight, ONOS, and RYU based
controllers
o Switch vendors have easy access to multiple
controllers for regression testing purposes.
o Applications have the ability to interact with multiple
controllers.
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SDN Interoperability

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Switch Vendors

12. •ONF OpenFlow Conformance Switch
Certification.
o https://www.opennetworking.org/certification/pr
oduct
•Developing Conformance testing for NetConf
and RestConf using IOL INTACT.
•Following standard development of
Northbound APIs.
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SDN Conformance

13. •IETF Benchmarking Draft testing.
•ONF Benchmarking Test Specificationsfor
Controllers.
•UNH-IOL collaborates with both Spirent and
IXIA for developing testing solution for
multiple performance test to include scale and
latency.
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Performance Testing

14. •Extensive SDN equipment and experienceof
UNH-IOL can be consulted.
•Consortium Members share the cost of the
new SDN consortium.
•UNH-IOL creates test cases for specific
Applications in multi-vendor networks to
prove Interoperability.
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SDN Application Testing

15. •Internet of Things (IoT)
o UNH-IOL collaborated with Service Provider to
prototype a SDN vCPE network.
•SD WAN
o Working with routers on replacing MPLS/T1
technology with SD Technology.
•NFV
o The UNH-IOL participates with OPNFV on the
plugfest planning.
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SDN Use Cases

16. Training Future Engineers
• More than 120 graduate and undergraduate studentemployees work with
our staff, gaining hands-on experience with developing technologies and
products.
• Our studentemployees average a 99% job placement, often before they
graduate.
• We provide career advancement opportunities including tech talks,
training for common industry tools, networking events and an online
resume binder.
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17. •Please type any questions that you have into
the Question Window.
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Questions?

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UNH-IOL Contact
Timothy Winters
Senior Executive, Software and IP Networking
twinters@iol.unh.edu
+1-603-862-3332
Media UNH-IOL Contact
Mara Bernazzani
Marketing and Communications Coordinator
mbernazzani@iol.unh.edu
+1-603-862-0901
Contacts