Project description
Innovative technology for secure fibre-optic communications
Fibre-optic cables are responsible for moving huge amounts of data between countries and continents at high speeds, making everything from photo sharing to critical financial transactions possible. Investments in the security of fibre-optic cables increase the overall cost of their deployment. The EU-funded OCSIC project will assess the potential of a completely new technology for effectively protecting the integrity and reliability of data transmitted via optical fibres. The technology will leverage phase and polarisation modulations of light pulses in the physical layer of the fibre. The proposed intelligent solution is expected to offer higher level of data protection, real-time monitoring capabilities and high-accuracy violation detection capabilities.
Objective
The overall objective of the project OCSIC - the Optical Coding System of the Information Channel is to verify technological and economic feasibility of a completely new technology for effective protection of the integrity and reliability of data transmitted by optical fibers through the use of information coding in the phase and polarization of light pulses in the physical layer of the fiber.
Nowadays, millions of kilometers of fiber optic cables are spanning across the world, carrying incredible amount of critical financial, governmental, defense, medical as well as personal information. Deploying fiber optic cables in itself is extremely expensive, and investing further in the security of these cables (via area surveillance and mechanical access control, fencing, CCTV monitoring etc.) increases the overall cost to a great extent. Developing intelligent physical layer fiber security solutions at affordable price is therefore an imperative trend and an urgent market need.
ZAZ innovation is exactly such an intelligent solution providing high level of data protection (which with current level of computer technology cannot be desyphred in less than 20 years), optical fiber interruption monitoring, detection of violation location with high accuracy (20 m), fast data transfer with easy installation – all of this at as little as 30% of the price of other (market state-of-the-art) solutions. The solution is dedicated to the military, governmetal, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors in EU and NATO countries.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securityaccess control
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsfibre optics
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Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
00 681 WARSZAWA
Poland
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.