Hellas Sat and Sparkle have worked together to achieve a quantum-safe satellite connection between Greece and Cyprus. The two companies had already implemented quantum-safe protection on a terrestrial connection between two data centers in Greece. Now, they have realized secure data transfer over a satellite link between Greece and Cyprus. The two companies announced this breakthrough earlier this week.
Sparkle is an international service provider based out of Italy. Hellas Sat has three Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites and two teleport facilities in Greece and Cyprus.
After validating a quantum-safe IPsec connection between two data centers in Greece, Sparkle and Hellas Sat have now extended quantum-safe protection to a live satellite link connecting Sparkle’s data center in Metamorfosis (Athens) with Hellas Sat’s infrastructure in Cyprus. This marks the first deployment of quantum-safe protection over a satellite connection between the two countries. The end-to-end satellite path spans approximately 72,000 kilometers, including the uplink from Cyprus to the GEO satellite and the downlink to Greece.
“The extension of QSI to satellite connectivity with Hellas Sat represents a concrete step in the evolution of our quantum-safe portfolio. It demonstrates that QSI can be deployed consistently across different network layers, connectivity domains, and operational environments, opening new opportunities to protect communications for customers requiring secure, resilient connectivity across geographically distributed environments,” Antonella Sanguineti, head of Networking, Cloud, Security & Identity Solutions, Sparkle, said in a statement.
