wild for innovation: unh interoperability laboratory overview
DESCRIPTION
On March 5th, 2010 the UNH Wildcats, Whittemore School of Business, New Hampshire Division of Economic Development and Public Service of New Hampshire hosted a unique afternoon workshop at UNH aimed at building teams, developing effective leaders and stimulating innovation. The "Wild for Innovation" workshop was developed specifically for New Hampshire business leaders and their teams, and included presentations like this one, on UNH's InterOperability Laboratory, by Erica Johnson.TRANSCRIPT
Improving Networks Worldwide.
The University of New Hampshire
InterOperability Laboratory
Wild for InnovationMarch 5, 2010
UNH-IOL Wild for Innovation
Contents
• Brief Overview• Building Technical Expertise• Job skills and interactions• Consortium Profile: Digital Home
Networking
• Case Study: QA Café
UNH-IOL Wild for Innovation
What is the UNH-IOL?• Premier Data Networking Technologies
Testing Facility• 100% funded by the commercial
industry– Member companies include:
Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, and Enterasys
• 80 undergrad, 20 grad, 20 full time staff
• 32,000 sq ft lab located in Durham, off campus
UNH-IOL Wild for InnovationBuilding Technical
Expertise• Employees undergo
intensive training to build knowledge on a broad spectrum of network protocols and technologies
• Work on real equipment providing valuable results for reputable companies
• Opportunities in development, testing, and product management
UNH-IOL Wild for Innovation
Job skills and interactions• Building professional rapport
– Students regularly communicate with and keep member companies updated and informed
• Students partake in business functions including:– Marketing -Technical Development– Finance -Business
Development– Human Relations
• The one-two punch– Technical and non technical degrees paired
with hands on experience result in a superior resume
UNH-IOL Wild for Innovation
Consortium Profile: DHN• The consortium tests TV’s,
laptops, home audio systems, and Blu-Ray players to ensure proper implementation of DLNA standards
• Revolutionizes the way you find, get, store, play and print digital data
• DHN provides extensive debug analysis for DLNA products
UNH-IOL Wild for Innovation
Case Study: Q&A Cafe
• QA Café creates test solutions for Cable, DSL, SOHO, and wireless router testing
• Founded by an IOL Alumni
• “The experience at the IOL keep me interested in testing and I went on to work at several start up companies over the next few years. Finally, in 2001 I took all these experiences and created QA Cafe to focus on the network testing space. I created the CDRouter test product to focus on testing smaller network devices.” Joe McEachern
UNH-IOL Wild for Innovation
Contact Information
Erica Johnson, Director+1(603) 862-3332