Written by Andrew Wooden
The point of this endeavour was to run use cases with HellasQCI consortium members – from government, research and education, defence, law enforcement and private sector critical infrastructure owners – to stress-test some ‘quantum-safe’ connectivity infrastructure.
The project took place in an optical network ring topology across three locations in Greece, and Nokia says it ‘successfully demonstrated hybrid key generation using both classic and quantum physics to generate and distribute Quantum-Safe keys for encrypted optical services.’
The Nokia QSN – or quantum safe network – solution showcased the ‘value added’ by a Nokia Security Management Server (SMS) to orchestrate quantum safe keys and provide continuous monitoring and management of quantum secured connectivity, so says the release.
The tool in question is the Quantum-Safe Key orchestrator, which can increase ‘secured connectivity resiliency’ automatically by reverting to classic physics-based keys in case of issues on the QKD layer.
