RHEA Luxembourg leads international partnership with ESA on QKD

RHEA System Luxembourg S.A. POST Luxembourg, HITEC Luxembourg, the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), evolutionQ Inc. and SpeQtral Pte Ltd join forces to execute international next-generation cybersecurity project on End-to-End International Use Cases for Operational QKD Applications and Services (INT-UQKD). The 3-year partnership programme, supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), will demonstrate the end-to-end applicability of quantum key distribution (QKD) to secure operational business applications. The project's five pilot use case demonstrations will cover three continents and will make use of hybrid ground-satellite QKD channels. Starting this month , RHEA System Luxembourg is leading a 3-year programme to develop and demonstrate international use cases for quantum key distribution (QKD) in operational IT environments. Supported by ESA, the INT-UQKD programme will use hybrid space and terrestrial fibre networks to field a testbed capability, deploying five pilot use case demonstrations between sites in Luxembourg, Belgium, Singapore, Canada and the UK. RHEA System Luxembourg will manage the INT-UQKD project and act as system integrator, working with POST Luxembourg , the University of Luxembourg's SnT, HITEC Luxembourg , evolutionQ (Canada) and SpeQtral (Singapore ).