Your QKD network, in one pane of glass.
QBER, photon rates, key pools. Watched like any other signal.
ProDCIM monitors your QKD links, photon detectors and key-management servers alongside the rest of your critical infrastructure, in the NOC you already run.
- QBER
- Key rate
- Detector health
- Eavesdropping alarms
- ETSI QKD-API
The problem
The quantum layer is a blind spot.
QKD hardware ships with its own vendor tools that never reach the NOC. Photon rates, error rates and key pools live in a separate world, so the on-call engineer can't see them next to power, cooling and the network.
- Vendor consoles that don't talk to your operations tooling
- No view of QBER or key rate beside the rest of the estate
- Reading quantum telemetry shouldn't need a physics degree
QKD vendor console
QBER
0.42%
Key rate
9.8 kb/s
SPAD dark counts
312 Hz
Key pool
87%
Locked in the vendor tool · sample values
What we watch
Catch eavesdropping in the QBER.
A sustained jump in quantum bit error rate is the classic signature of an intercept. ProDCIM trends QBER per link and raises one alarm the moment it breaches threshold.
QBER
2.1 to 9.4%
Key rate
48 to 6 kb/s
Action
Investigate
Illustrative QKD telemetry · sample data
What this helps you do: work a QBER excursion the same way you work a thermal or power alarm, in the same console, with the same runbook. Sample data shown.
Quantum layer, familiar dashboards
Three slices of a QKD network, one pane.
Dark-fibre & free-space links
Quantum bit error rate, photon arrival rate, attenuation and synchronisation drift, per link.
- QBER
- Key rate
- Drift
QKM servers & APIs
Key generation rate, key-pool depth and ETSI QKD-API consumer counts and freshness.
- Key pool
- Freshness
- ETSI QKD-API
Hybrid PQC + QKD
Visibility into the seam between QKD-derived keys and post-quantum classical envelopes.
- Hybrid mode
- Failover
- PQC
What we watch
Six signals every QKD operator needs.
Most NOC tools were not designed for the quantum layer. These are the metrics and events that matter, exposed the same way as power and cooling.
QBER trend
Real-time quantum bit error rate per link, with thresholds tuned to your hardware vendor.
Key generation rate
Usable key per second as it varies with link conditions, temperature and load, see brownouts early.
Detector health
SPAD dark counts, after-pulse rate and temperature, flag a failing detector before keys stop.
Fibre link integrity
Optical loss, polarisation drift and OTDR-style step changes that can hint at tampering.
Eavesdropping alarms
Sudden QBER excursions, decoy-state anomalies and Bell-test deviations, rolled up as one alert.
Classical correlation
Quantum events line up with network, power and environmental events, on one timeline.
Detect, correlate, alert, verify
From a photon-rate dip to an actioned response.
The same workflow ProDCIM runs on classical infrastructure, extended to quantum signals.
1. Detect
Continuously poll QKD links and KMS endpoints into the same time-series store.
2. Correlate
Cross-reference photon-rate dips with fibre alarms, temperature drift and load.
3. Alert
Route incidents through the same NOC runbook as IT and network events.
4. Verify
Confirm recovery: QBER below threshold, key rate restored, consumers reconnected.
ProDCIM monitors your QKD network. It does not replace your QKD hardware.
Vendor-agnostic·ETSI QKD-API·one NOC for classical and quantum·SOC 2 Type II audited
Part of the platform
Quantum signals, in the same model.
QKD telemetry joins the assets, sites and metrics that power the rest of ProDCIM.
Bring the quantum layer into view
Book a walkthrough and we'll show QBER trends, eavesdropping alarms and classical correlation on a live NOC.