DIFI’s 2022 will be the year of adoption and expansion. Adoption: Mature the 1.0 specification with at least two minor releases of the specification that cleans up and address deficiencies in the specification. Stabilize and re-publish the initial standard for baseline acceptance NLT on June 30, 2022 Establish a features roadmap that will be regularly [...]
ThinKom Joins Space Industry Consortium Developing Interoperability Standards for Satellite and Ground Digital Networks HAWTHORNE, Calif. – May 11, 2022 – ThinKom Solutions, Inc. today announced it has joined the Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability (DIFI) Consortium, an independent space-industry group formed to advance interoperability in satellite and ground system networks. DIFI member organizations contribute to [...]
Member Release - March 4, 2022 SSC joins the Digital IF Interoperability (DIFI) consortium, an independent space industry group, to work towards interoperability in satellite ground systems. Digital IF is one enabling technology in the ecosystem of Software Defined Radio, where the signal processing is done in software rather than on specific hardware devices. Traditionally [...]
Member Release - SpaceBridge Inc., a privately held Canadian corporation and manufacturer of broadband satellite communications systems technology today announced that it has joined the Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability (“DIFI”) Consortium, an independent space industry group formed to advance interoperability in satellite and ground system networks. SpaceBridge Inc. joins a rising number of leading organizations [...]
DIFI Consortium Release - (March 1, 2022: Piscataway, NJ) The Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI), the independent space industry group formed to advance interoperability in satellite and ground system networks, today announced the addition of seven new members, in February 2022, from across industry sectors, including: AvL Technologies delivers mobile satellite antenna systems and positioners [...]
NTEGRASYS joins the Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) Member Blog - INTEGRASYS has joined the DIFI Consortium, an independent space industry group, formed to advance interoperability in satellite and ground system networks. INTEGRASYS joins a growing roster of leading organizations in the space industry coming together to form the Digital IF Interoperability Consortium. These organizations [...]
Member Release - Cobham SATCOM, a leading global provider of satellite communications solutions to the land and maritime sectors, and the Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI), the independent space industry group formed to advance interoperability in satellite and ground system networks, today announced Cobham's membership in the DIFI Consortium. Copenhagen, Denmark - 3 February 2022 [...]
DIFI Consortium Release - (February 7, 2022: Piscataway, NJ) The Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI), the independent space industry group formed to advance interoperability in satellite and ground system networks, today announced the addition of five new members from across space industry sectors, including: ViaLite Communications – a designer and manufacturer of RF-over-fiber links and systems; [...]
GSAW 2022 - Ground Systems Architectures Workshop February 23 - March 3, 2022 - The 26th annual Ground System Architectures Workshop (GSAW) provides a forum for the world’s space-related ground system experts to collaborate with other ground system users, developers, and researchers through tutorials, presentations, working groups, panel discussions, and technical exhibits. GSAW will be completely [...]
...written by Peter B. De Selding January 7, 2022... Read More... PARIS — Ground station capacity providers KSAT, Microsoft Azure Space, RBC Signals, SSC and Viasat RTE are in full-throttle expansion as large sums of cash are invested in new satellites and constellations. All of them are moving toward cloud-based virtual operations as customers demand [...]