DURHAM, N.H.-Thursday 4 April 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]
(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 they
are the first lab to complete and receive the verification badge as the
first OVP Verified Lab within the OPNFV Verification Programs.
“We’re excited to see the continued
growth and drive within our development communities,” said Heather
Kirksey, vice president, Community and Ecosystem Development, the Linux
Foundation. “Announcing the first OVP Verified Lab is another milestone
in those programs and activities. The UNH-IOL joining as the first OVP
Verified Lab ensures commercial NFVI and VNF products and vendors have
more options to prepare for the market and an interoperable ‘One NFVI’
future.”
As a verified test lab, the UNH-IOL has
demonstrated a commitment to the open source community and a level of
competence in the execution of testing. This announcement comes with the
expansion of the programs to include testing of VNFs (virtual network
functions), based on requirements defined within the ONAP project.
Previously, the programs included functional testing of the NFVI
platform or infrastructure, according to a set of tests agreed within
the OPNFV community.
“As the ecosystem of open source
software continues to grow, operators and end users are facing an
increasingly complex problem in integrating and testing of those
systems,” said Lincoln Lavoie, UNH-IOL Senior Engineer & Chair of
the LF Networking Compliance and Verification Committee. “By creating
these programs, the industry is working together to create scalable
testing, taking input from end users for the program requirements and
goals. The UNH-IOL is thrilled to participate in this process by
offering testing services to the industry based on open and agreed test
plans.”
The UNH-IOL has been working with the
OPNFV and Linux Foundation since late 2016 as the host for OPNFV's Lab
as a Service (LaaS) infrastructure, providing community and developer
resources for the Linux Foundation's Networking Projects. The UNH-IOL is
also hosting hardware for other OPNFV projects, available to developers
within those projects. To learn more about the UNH-IOL’s and working
with the OPNFV Community please visit the OPNFV Testing Services page.
The UNH-IOL’s Lincoln Lavoie, will be
speaking at the 2019 Open Networking Summit (ONS) this week in San Jose,
CA on the vision of the CVC (Compliance and Verification Committee)
within LFN. The UNH-IOL will also be participating during the LF
Networking Demos at ONS and the demo will be of the LaaS 2.0 features
and details can be found on the ONS Event page.
About the UNH-IOL
The UNH-IOL is dedicated to being the
world's premier data networking resource. Beginning in 1988, the UNH-IOL
has built a multimillion dollar testbed and developed testing solutions
to help companies efficiently and cost effectively deliver products to
market. UNH-IOL’s services fit the needs of the market, while
maintaining broad, comprehensive interoperability and conformance
testing of networking, data, telecommunications, and storage products.
The industry relies on UNH-IOL’s extensive staff experience,
standards-bodies participation, 28,000+ square foot facility, and 100+
students who represent the future interoperability testing and
verification.
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Contacts
Organization Contact:
UNH-IOL
Mara Bernazzani, +1-603-862-0901
Communications Coordinator mbernazzani@iol.unh.edu www.iol.unh.edu
Organization Contact:
UNH-IOL
Mara Bernazzani, +1-603-862-0901
Communications Coordinator mbernazzani@iol.unh.edu www.iol.unh.edu
