CyberRidge for Data Centers
Make your Data Center Links Invisible, Unhackable, AI-Safe & Quantum-ready
CyberRidge Carmel is a Photonic Layer Security system for data center interconnect. It spreads, encrypts and buries the optical signal below the noise floor, so traffic crossing fiber between sites cannot be recorded for later decryption. It supports 100–200 Gb/s per link with zero latency and runs over existing multi-vendor optical networks.
Finally, you can secure the links over fiber you don’t control
Turn security into a premium service
Finance, government and healthcare tenants want assurance that their data can’t be hacked. Package harvest-proof interconnect as a higher-value tier for tenants with long-lived sensitive data.
Keep performance intact
Protection adds zero latency at 100–200 Gb/s, which matters for replication, storage and AI workloads.
A layer beneath PQC, not a replacement
Complements your PQC migration, TLS, and IPsec, adding harvest protection to those encryption controls.
Protect data that must stay confidential for years
AI models, proprietary datasets, and customer records keep their value long after transmission. Physical-layer protection keeps them inaccessible, no matter what the future brings.
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How Carmel fits your interconnect
Conceal the data and everything with it
The signal is spread across a multi-terahertz spectrum and buried below the optical noise floor. Metadata headers and routing information are buried with the payload.
Sub-second key changes, nothing to harvest
Optical keys change multiple times per second and travel embedded in the light, never stored digitally on the link. An attacker has no lasting key to target.
Multi-vendor optical compatibility
Operates over ROADM-based networks with EDFA and Raman amplification, and coexists with adjacent WDM channels. With rollouts planned in weeks.
Zero latency
A physics-based solution that adds no latency to the link.
Frequently asked questions
How can data center operators protect interconnect links from harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks?
Data center interconnect links carry replication, backup, AI training data and customer workloads, often over fiber the operator does not control. CyberRidge Carmel protects them at the physical layer: the signal is spread across a multi-terahertz spectrum and buried below the optical noise floor, so anyone tapping the fiber sees optical noise rather than a recordable signal.
Does physical-layer protection slow down replication or AI workloads?
CyberRidge Carmel supports 100–200 Gb/s per link and adds zero latency, because it operates on the optical signal rather than processing packets.
Can data centers offer protected interconnect as a service to tenants?
Yes. Operators can package harvest-proof interconnect as a higher-value tier for tenants with long-lived sensitive data, such as finance, government and healthcare organizations.
Does Carmel hide metadata as well as the data itself?
Yes. Headers and routing information are buried below the optical noise floor together with the payload, so an observer on the fiber cannot map who is communicating with whom.
Proven in the field
Telecom Italia: 100 Gb/s over more than 200 km of live fiber
In a joint proof of concept with Telecom Italia (now FiberCop), Photonic Layer Security carried 100 Gb/s across more than 200 km of live DWDM fiber in Torino, Italy, alongside conventional channels on the same fiber.
See the published papersDiscover how photonic layer security was deployed at a tier-1 telco
