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Optical Fiber Communication Conference

First Demonstration of 200 Gbps Regime Line-Rate Quantum-Secure MACsec Optical Links Using Commodity Hardware Offloads

Abraham Cano Aguilera, Carlos Rubio García, Daniel Christian Lawo, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, José Luis Imaña, Juan José Vegas Olmos

Published Jan 1, 2025• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate the first MACsec implementation at 196 Gbps over an end-to-end quantum-secure link using Quantum Key Distribution, Post-Quantum Cryptography, and Classical Cryptography with network offloads and hardware accelerators.
DOI
10.1364/ofc.2025.tu2d.2

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