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I would be curious to know how many networks use macsec/.1ae for their transocean fiber. It makes a big difference in detering surveillance.
by badrabbit 6y ago
I would be curious to know how many networks use macsec/.1ae for their transocean fiber. It makes a big difference in detering surveillance.
- mike_d 6y agoZero. MACSec is for LANs. Corporations like Google and Facebook leasing wavelengths are doing E2E encryption in their own upstream gear, but your random ISP hauling cat videos isn't.
- badrabbit 6y agoI've seen 100Gbe gear specifically support it as a feature
- jauer 6y agoFacebook and Google aren't leasing wavelengths and haven't for years. Sometimes they lease strands, sometimes they own the fiber in the ground and lease excess to traditional carriers. They own the longhaul equipment that puts waves on the strands. They own the transponders that takes normal 100GigE and converts it to waves. Random ISP may not be running MACSec, but a significant portion of subsea cable traffic does run over MACSec as it goes between datacenters and from datacenters to POPs where those cat videos get handed off to ISPs in the same region.