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September “Plugfest” Provided First Test of Interoperability    Nearly 90% of vendor systems succeeded in communicating through 111 different test combinations, proving the functionality of the standard PISCATAWAY, NJ: 2 November 2023: The Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium  (DIFI) held its first Plugfest – where vendors test the interoperability of their products based on a [...]

DIFI Consortium Releases Version 1.2.0 of the DIFI Standard with Improvement in Flow Control September 06, 2023 13:47 ET| Source: DIFI ConsortiumFollow     PISCATAWAY, N.J., Sept. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability (DIFI) Consortium today announced the release of version 1.2.0 of the DIFI Standard, IEEE-ISTO Std 4900-2021: Digital IF Interoperability [...]

DIFI Consortium Elects Leaders of Working Groups to Drive Evolution of its Digital Interoperability Specification and Certification PISCATAWAY, NJ: May 1, 2023:  The Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability (DIFI) Consortium announced today the result of leadership elections for working groups that are driving the evolution of its digital Intermediate Frequency (IF)/Radio Frequency (RF) interoperability specification and [...]

  Top Satellite Companies and Users Join the DIFI Consortium to Accelerate the Industry’s Digital Transformation PISCATAWAY, NJ: March 6, 2023:  The Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) announced today the addition of new member organizations to its growing family of satellite service, technology, and major user organizations.  Joining DIFI in the second half of [...]

DIFI Lays the Building Blocks for Ground Tech Interoperability Continued adoption of the ground segment’s interoperable digital standard would lead to benefits reaching space. From scalability and new efficiencies to more confident end users, DIFI is set to play an important role for the whole satellite ecosystem. When things just work, isn’t that really a [...]

December 13, 2022 10:00 ET | Source: DIFI Consortium   PISCATAWAY, N.J., Dec. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The SATCOM industry passed a milestone recently when the US Army specified the Digital IF Interoperability (DIFI) Consortium’s standard as a requirement in two recent Requests for Information (RFIs). The US Army Wideband Enterprise Satellite Systems (PdM WESS) RFIs [...]

Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) Announces Workshop at MILCOM 2022 The Digital Transformation of SATCOM October 10, 2022 07:00 ET | Source: DIFI Consortium PISCATAWAY, N.J., Oct. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  The DIFI Consortium is pleased to announce its special workshop: The Digital Transformation of SATCOM, at MILCOM 2022 on Monday, November 28, from 8:30 AM to 12 PM [...]

Digital IF Interoperability (DIFI) Consortium Announces GNU Radio Talk and Release of Open-Source Software Enabling digital transformation of space, satellite, and related industries                                                       DIFI CONSORTIUM RELEASE:  PISCATAWAY, N.J., [...]

The complexity of spacecraft operations has sky-rocketed with increased orbital activity and new satellite capabilities, like the ability to reconfigure capacity, power, and coverage on demand. Despite these advances, satellite communications (satcom) operators still find it challenging to scale and adapt to this new complexity on the ground. Limited software solutions and the lack of interoperability between hardware [...]

Digital IF Interoperability (DIFI) Consortium Announces Standard Version 1.1 Released Enabling digital transformation of space, satellite, and related industries August 15, 2022 07:31 ET | Source: DIFI Consortium DIFI CONSORTIUM RELEASE:  PISCATAWAY, N.J., Aug. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The DIFI Consortium is pleased to release the IEEE-ISTO Std 4900-2021: Digital IF Interoperability 1.1 Standard. The release [...]