Security over optical transport network beyond 100G

    公开(公告)号:US10985847B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-20

    申请号:US15849959

    申请日:2017-12-21

    Abstract: A method divides data traffic into multiple optical transport units formatted according to an optical transport network (OTN) standard. The multiple optical transport units include a master optical network unit and one or more slave optical network units. Each optical network unit includes overhead and a payload. The overhead includes used overhead specifically defined in the OTN standard and unused overhead not specifically defined in the OTN standard. The method encrypts each optical network unit with a respective one of multiple encryption keys, defines security control parameters identifying the multiple encryption keys, and inserts the security control parameters into the unused overhead of a first slave optical network unit among the one or more slave optical network units. The method transmits the optical network units in encrypted form.

    Security protection of terabit ethernet PCS layer using alignment markers

    公开(公告)号:US10404402B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-03

    申请号:US15712385

    申请日:2017-09-22

    Abstract: A method generates, from an input data stream, multiple lanes of a physical coding sublayer (PCS) signal. The method converts the data stream to a sequence of bit blocks, and periodically inserts into the sequence of bit blocks an alignment marker (AM) group including multiple individual alignment markers for respective ones of the multiple lanes. The method adds security protection to each bit block according to a security protocol to produce a sequence of protected bit blocks, and modifies each AM group with security information to be used by the security protocol to remove the security protection added to the sequence of protected bit blocks. The method applies forward error correction to the sequence of protected bit blocks and the modified AM groups to produce forward error correction codewords, and produces the multiple lanes from the codewords. The method transmits the multiple lanes over an optical link.

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