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Encryption of OTN OTUx Carrier Services

PacketLight’s encryption solution performs GCM-AES-256 encryption over Layer-1, encrypting a mix of OTN carrier client services, supporting full throughput of OTU2, OTU2e, OTU3, and OTU4 services.

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

Optical encryption of mix of OTU rates using muxponder

Encrypting and aggregating a mix of OTU rates using PacketLight 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

Products for OTN OTUx Encryption