The Merger That Needed A War

I need your focus for a few minutes on something that slipped through the noise today, and may not get another window soon.

The Drey Dossier

🎄 Season’s greetings from the Datacom Industry Association (DIA)!

As 2025 comes to a close, we wish everyone a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year.

This year was about launching a new association, strengthening our values, and building governance where horizontal innovation meets vertical applicability.
💻 https://datacom-ia.eu/

🙏 Thanks to our founding members.
🚀 Looking forward to welcoming more members in 2026!

#DIA #Datacom #ICT #HappyHolidays #Community

💡@datacom_ia Open Challenge Fund (OCF): Deadline to submit your application has been extended!

OCF is designed to unlock private funding and boost collaboration between industry, innovative SMEs, and academic partners complementing public funding opportunities.

https://datacom-ia.eu/dia-open-challenge-fund/ week left to participate:
https://lnkd.in/d-eK38nV

If you want to propose a challenge or collaborate, now’s the time!

#DIA #Datacom #Innovation #R&D #OpenChallengeFund

🚀 The @datacom_ia DIA Open Challenge Fund (OCF) is open — and there’s just one week left to join!

It brings industry, SMEs, and academia together to push Datacom innovation forward.
✔ Challenges proposed by industry
✔ Joint R&D with DIA members
✔ Linked to DIA WGs/themes (routing, AI, etc.)

⏳ Don’t miss the final week!
https://datacom-ia.eu/dia-open-challenge-fund/
#DIA #Datacom #Innovation #r&d

The @datacom_ia event has officially kicked off today in Munich! 🇪🇺

Hosted by the newly formed Datacom Industry Association, this one-day gathering brings together voices from across Europe to talk about how communication systems can help solve major societal challenges.

How to get involved with the DIA and why it matters now more than ever?

Let’s drive change through collaboration. 💬🌍

#DIA #CommSystems #TechForGood #Munich #EUtech #DigitalInclusion #Datacom

There are a number of ways of implementing multi-channel transmission over single #OpticalFibers within #datacom environments. One of the most common implementations in datacom is wavelength division multiplexing (#WDM). In WDM, multiple data streams are transmitted in different frequency/wavelength ranges through a single optical fiber. Learn more: https://ilphotonics.com/datacom-filters-for-transmitting-the-entire-o-c-or-l-band/
Datacom Filters for Transmitting the Entire O-, C-, or L-Band | IL Photonics

An important part of any datacom system and achieving optimal performance is the use of spectral filters as part of the datacom network.

IL Photonics

Having some breakfast at the #Datacom café (#Mojo).

This is the first time I’ve flown anywhere since the #BeforeTimes. It’s a beautiful day in #TamakiMakaurau.

Pretty cool article by Josh Pearce:

“DIY Home Router with NixOS”

https://www.jjpdev.com/posts/home-router-nixos/

#NixOS #Linux #DataCom #NetStuff

Home Network Part 1 - DIY Home Router with NixOS - JJP Software

Some claim #SLIRP has poor performance. Would be interesting to do some kind of benchmark.

#Qemu #Virtualization #DataCom #NetStuff #MacOS

Pretty cool net project:

“passt implements a translation layer between a Layer-2 network interface and native Layer-4 sockets (TCP, UDP, ICMP/ICMPv6 echo) on a host. It doesn't require any capabilities or privileges, and it can be used as a simple replacement for Slirp.”

https://passt.top/

#Linux #Unix #DataCom #NetStuff

passt - Plug A Simple Socket Transport

passt and pasta unprivileged (rootless) user-mode networking for VMs and containers, replacement for slirp, slirp4netns, libslirp, integrates with qemu, libvirt, Podman, Kata Containers