Field Demonstration of a Fully Managed, L1 Encrypted 3-Node Network with Hybrid Relayed-QKD and Centralized Symmetric Classical Key Management
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Makris, Nikolas; Tsimvrakidis, Konstantinos; Papageorgopoulos, Alkinoos; Konteli, Persefoni; Gautier, Yannick; Terenziani, Marco; Daudin, Eric; Ntoulias, Dimosthenis; Fragkioudakis, Thanasis; Meletios, Ian; Mosca, Michele; Hobbs, Dale; Rosati, Tony; Papastamatiou, Ilias; Prnjat, Ognjen; Koumantaros, Kostas; Mitropoulos, Dimitris; Morax, Jean-Robert; Huttner, Bruno; Christodoulopoulos, Kostas; Kanellos, George T.; Syvridis, Dimitris
Abstract:
We successfully demonstrated a fully-managed, field-deployed, three-node QKD ring network with L1-OTNsec encryption. The network employs a hybrid scheme of QKD and classical yet quantum-safe centrally-generated symmetric keys to support point-to-point and relay consumers.