PacketLight’s 400G capacity over single wavelength muxponders and transponders support secure transport per service or per 400G uplink, with embedded Layer-1 encryption, based on GCM-AES-256 standards. The solution supports Diffie-Hellman (DH) Key Exchange and quantum key distribution (QKD). Encryption over 400G supports the following services: 10/25/100/400Gb Ethernet, 16G Fibre Channel, OTU2/2e, OTU4.
Benefits of PacketLight’s Layer-1 Encryption Solution
- Encryption of all the data transmitted over the fiber, with no omissions
- Transparent, maintains full bandwidth of the traffic
- Beneficial for low latency applications
- Covering the physical fiber tapping detection
- Interface with existing DWDM infrastructure and Telco OTN networks
- No need to change or upgrade Layer-2/3 switch/routers
Figure 1: Encryption of 4x400G PTP link using PL-4000T transponder
Figure 2: Encryption of 400G PTP link using PL-4000M muxponder
Optical Encryption Applications
- Government and data center connectivity
- Banks, credit card companies and other financial institutes
- Cloud providers and ISP backbone
- Utilities and essential infrastructure
- Feeder of encrypted services to existing OTN
- Managed encrypted wavelength services offered by service providers
- Internal data center secured connectivity
