Wirespeed security domains using optical monitoring

Objective

WISDOM is designed to develop advanced optical components necessary for photonic firewalls. This will require the development of novel optical processing modules which will be placed at the front end of the node firewall to provide the primary optical information filtering - operating at wirespeed (40Gbit/s per channel) - which includes operations such as optical packet recognition, interrogation and manipulating data streams incorporating features of parity checking, flag status, and header recognition.

Secondary processing would then be done electronically as is currently the case, but with the benefit of a reduction in the electronic processing capacity required. These photonic firewalls will operate using novel algorithms and protocols, to extract and process wirespeed security information in high capacity multi-channel (Tb/s) networks. The algorithms will combine the functionality of optical processing with secondary electronic security approaches to introduce new layers of security analysis.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › computer security › network security

Programme(s)

• FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

• IST-2005-2.5.1 - Photonic components

Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

THE CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED PHOTONICS LIMITED

Address

Francis House 112 Hills Road
CB2 1PH Cambridge
United Kingdom

Participants (4)

AVANEX FRANCE SA

France

Address

Route De Villejust
91620 Nozay

BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC.

United Kingdom

Address

81 Newgate Street
EC1A 7AJ London

FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY - HELLAS

Greece

Address

Vassilika Vouton
17671 Iraklio, Crete

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

Ireland

Address

Western Road
Cork