Cisco Turns Its Attention To The Control Layers Of Its Quantum Network

Cisco Networks, through its Outshift R&D and incubator unit, has for several years been piecing together the network architecture needed for quantum computing.

Such entanglement can’t be done with classical bits of information, and is a key part of what makes quantum systems so much faster and more powerful.

Now Cisco is pulling in the tools needed to scale the quantum network itself.

Quantum is a different and more complex animal, says Reza Nejabati, head of quantum research and Quantum Labs at Cisco.

That's really the missing piece without which you cannot actually scalably operate your quantum networks in the future.”