Some important news for organizations manufacturing, using or contemplating DIFI standard-based equipment: The certification program for the DIFI 1.1 specification has been approved by the working group and is now going through board approval.
Why is this so important? Because it will further enable recognizable confidence that the equipment will perform according to standard. It will also enable third-party certifications, thus creating even wider confidence by supporting independent test houses.
While attending the 41st Space Symposium earlier this month it was compelling to see so many companies promoting virtual ground equipment. While employing the DIFI standard is markedly beneficial for both software and hardware components, it’s in the virtualized and cloud environments where the interoperability benefits of digital IF and DIFI really shine.
And for the folks I saw exhibiting at the Symposium (the largest industry event focused on defense and intelligence applications) it will help them reply to the continuing uptick in defense-related RFPs we’ve seen specifying DIFI compliance.
Incidentally, for future DIFI standard releases, certification will be defined against feature sets, such as flow control, rather than release version numbers. This will make it easier to specify, use and manage compliance. Instead of just asking for the latest release, which might have features or capabilities not required for a given use case, you will be able to specify the exact features needed.
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