India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), an agency under India’s Ministry of Defence, has reported that it has successfully completed military field trails of a scalable and practically secure, fiber based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system.
Leveraging their lab level proof of concept and experience of previous trials, the DRDO team with their industry partner, Taqbit Labs, Bengaluru, has “successfully architected and productized this advanced system to secure critical networks”.
This milestone “successfully lays the foundation for a large-scale, multi-hop quantum networks that is indigenously designed and can seamlessly safeguard national communication infrastructure against emerging cyber threats in the quantum era” according to DRDO.
“What began as a joint engineering journey has matured into a robust, frontline-ready security layer. Leveraging deep quantum expertise, our team meticulously architected this technology to integrate smoothly with standard, existing fiber networks with unmatched execution agility,” said Taqbit Labs.
“This milestone lays the foundation for a large-scale, multi-hop quantum network that is entirely indigenously designed and built to seamlessly safeguard national communication infrastructure against emerging cyber threats in the quantum era,” said Bilesh Prasad, Founder, Taqbit Labs.
