The OPENQKD project culminates after three years of duration and a budget of 15 million euros financed by the European program Horizon Europe 2020. The consortium, which is made up of 38 members, 4 of them Spanish, has installed a test quantum communication infrastructure in several European countries.

Institute IMDEA Software has participated in the OPENQKD project, through REDIMadrid, by providing the physical infrastructure and personnel expertise.

Classical and quantum communications will in the near future jointly secure the ICT needs of European governments, service industries (e.g. healthcare, finance), businesses and citizens, even in the presence of quantum computers or other sophisticated algorithmic attacks against public key infrastructures.

The project culminates having accomplished its mission, establishing secure communication based on QKD and making the technology robust and reliable.

REDIMadrid has managed to deploy a research network on its own infrastructure, thus avoiding a contracted capacity network, with new dark fiber laid and used exclusively for research activities.

In this context, REDIMadrid has made it possible for quantum lambdas to coexist with research traffic lambdas, so it has been possible to test how the solution works in a real environment.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 857156.