WISDOM

Wirespeed Security Domains Using Optical Monitoring

Project status

Completed in 2009

CIP involvement

CIP were the lead project partner and are responsible for the development of the integrated photonic processing circuits to be used in the optical firewall.

About WISDOM

WISDOM is designed to develop advanced optical components necessary for photonic firewalls. This will involve the development of novel optical processing modules which will be placed at the front end of the node firewall to provide the primary optical information filtering - operating at wirespeed (40Gbit/s per channel) – which includes operations such as optical packet recognition, interrogation and manipulating data streams incorporating features of parity checking, flag status, and header recognition.
Secondary processing would then be done electronically as is currently the case, but with the benefit of a reduction in the electronic processing capacity required.

These photonic firewalls will operate using novel algorithms and protocols, to extract and process wirespeed security information in high capacity multichannel (Tb/s) networks. The algorithms will combine the functionality of optical processing with secondary electronic security approaches to introduce new layers of security analysis.

Web site: http://www.ist-wisdom.org

Partners

CIP (UK), BT (UK), UCC (Eire), Avanex (France), FORTH (Hellas, Greece)