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EU Funding For WISDOM Photonic Firewall Project Enhances Security

Calendar Aug 01, 2006 • User Avatar Brittany Day
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EU funding of 2 million Euros has been announced for a major new three-year project to develop a re-configurable photonic 'firewall on a chip'. Called WISDOM, (WIrespeed Security Domains Using Optical Monitoring), the new system will plug a major gap in the global data network security armoury - the lack of tools to implement security checks and algorithms directly at high optical data communications rates.

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