Long-term performance of the SwissQuantum quantum key distribution network in a field environment
Damien Stucki, Matthieu Legré, François Buntschu, B Clausen, N. Felber, N. Gisin, Luca Henzen, Pascal Junod, Gerald Litzistorf, Patrick Monbaron, Laurent Monat, Jean-Benoît Page, Didier Perroud, G. Ribordy, A. Rochas, Samuel Robyr, Jorge Tavares, Rob Thew, Patrick Trinkler, S Ventura · New Journal of Physics · 2011
In this paper, we report on the performance of the SwissQuantum quantum key distribution (QKD) network. The network was installed in the Geneva metropolitan area and ran for more than one-and-a-half years, from the end of March 2009 to the beginning of January 2011. The main goal of this experiment was to test the reliability of the quantum layer over a long period of time in a production environment. A key management layer has been developed to manage the key between the three nodes of the network. This QKD-secure network was utilized by end-users through an application layer.