Abstract
The present document describes the main communication resources involved in a QKD system and the possible architectures that can be adopted when performing a QKD deployment over an optical network infrastructure. The scope of the present document is restricted to QKD deployments over fibre optical networks. Architectural options are also restricted to point-to-point communication.
General Information
Publication date: 01 January 2019
Working groups: https://www.etsi.org/technologies/quantum-key-distribution
ICT rolling plan topic: Quantum Computing
SDO: ETSI
Latest publishied version: V1.1.1 (2019-02)