The Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium announced the addition of new members in the EMEA region to its growing family of organizations dedicated to the digital transformation of satellite services. Companies that recently joined DIFI include:
NATO Communications and Information Agency is a technology and cyber expert group, with 3,000-strong team located in 29 sites, delivering capabilities critical to fulfilling NATO’s core mission of consultation, collective defense and crisis management.
Arabsat, the Arab Satellite Communications Organization, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, delivers satcom services to the Arab States from eight satellites.
Groundspace provides software-based orchestration, logging and operational planning for the ground segment of space operations from Montpellier, France.
RF-Design supplies switch matrix systems, RF-over-fiber solutions, line amplifiers, RF monitoring systems and custom solutions from its headquarters in Lorch, Germany.
Teledyne Paradise Datacom, based in Witham, UK, supplies satellite modems, solid-state power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, block-up converters and associated subsystems.
With the gain of these members, the DIFI membership now includes over 60 companies and agencies including the US Navy, US Army C5ISR Center, Amazon Web Services, US Space Force, Microsoft, Airbus Defense and Space, SES Engineering, Hughes Network Systems, Inmarsat, Defense Information Systems Agency, HawkEye 360, Kymeta, Kratos Defense & Space, Cobham and Comtech.
“The digital transformation of the satellite industry is being driven – not by vendors – but by their customers,” said DIFI Board Chairman Stuart Daughtridge. “That’s reflected in the sector and geographic diversity of DIFI’s membership. Our goal is simple: to create an open and transparent standard, developed by users, operators and vendors working together, that enables true interoperability among all vendors’ communications technology. It will reduce the total cost of ownership and boost network and terminal agility, performance and resilience. It will also open the door to new markets, greater integration with terrestrial services and a truly software-defined future for the industry.”
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