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Abstract
Within the Madrid Quantum Communication Infrastructure (MadQCI), a cloud-like, quantum-enabled network scenario has been commissioned to promote the growth of the quantum technology scientific community. This scenario is designed to provide both quantum communication primitives and quantum-enabled services to potential end users. This work focuses on exposing these quantum services in a user-friendly manner by abstracting the underlying technical complexity, letting end users operate without prior knowledge of implementation details. To this end, multiple quantum services—the SD-QKD software stack, QRNG, Quantum-Safe TLS, and Quantum-Safe IPsec as a Service—are offered following the cloud “anything as a service” (XaaS) model. The delivery of quantum-enabled services is therefore researched using an applied and transferable cloud-based paradigm.Keywords
Funding Information
- EU Horizon Europe (101114043)
- Consejería de Sanidad, Comunidad de Madrid (PRTR-C17.I1)
- EuroQCI-Spain (101091638)
- Ministerio para la Transformacion Digital y de la Funcion Publica (PRTR-C16.R1)
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