Seeking to offer information superiority, Telefónica is implementing a cross-cutting strategy that begins with crypto-agility and post-quantum cybersecurity to seize the opportunity and challenge of quantum computing. To this end, Telefónica created a center of excellence based on the three fundamental pillars of quantum technologies: communications and cybersecurity; computing and simulation; and sensors and metrology.
Its stand at FEINDEF has been designed to showcase different integrated technologies for this purpose: The first is sensors, visual, and network technologies, designed to acquire the data and images necessary to generate information. The second is communications, highlighting its 5G networks and their applications in defense and security missions, such as Telefónica's participation in the Ministry of Defense's MC3 project, tactical networks, emergency communications, and I3D and 5G post-quantum communications.
Added to these are Cloud Computing, the basis of almost all digital services, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform data into information and enable communication in a cyber environment. Finally, the cyber defense phase, where all the previous phases come together for IT-OT convergence, allows for the integration of two worlds that previously operated in isolation.
Telefónica installed a so-called "sandbox" at its stand, where decision-makers can operate virtually by managing, organizing, and sorting all the data obtained through the previous steps, thus assisting in their decision-making.
In the communications field, Telefónica participates in programs such as MC3 for the Ministry of Defense, whose objective is the modernization of the Information and Communications Systems (CIS) of deployable command posts to support the command and control of the Large Units, Commands, and Operational Organizations of the Army and Marine Corps.
Next to the Telefónica stand, a container was located with the large-unit hybrid command post station. This technology demonstrator allows for the evaluation of the technologies that will support the MC3 Plan. It includes: high-classification and low-classification domains; hyperconverged servers for the execution of the various required services; six operator positions; mobile operation capability and various communication media such as mobile link; mobile satellite communication radio link; secure Wi-Fi; connection to I3D; dual-channel V/UHF (SDR) and VoIP telephony and intercom; as well as cryptographic capabilities.
Along with all this, the company exhibited a wide range of communications systems and encryptors, its 5G coverage, as well as several systems to address the future of quantum computing and its ability to decrypt stored data. Several of these technologies and products were already demonstrated and tested during the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona and have now been showcased at FEINDEF 25.
