FBA Presents – Is your Fiber Ready for Quantum?

The Internet as it exists today is best described as a network of networks. Historically, it evolved through the interconnection of smaller localized networks into a web of networks. Can a future quantum internet follow a similar trajectory? How can local quantum networks develop and interconnect to form a large-scale national quantum network? If so, how can the nation’s fiber infrastructure accelerate its construction?

Key Points:

• What is quantum networking?

• Why quantum networking is an improvement over existing technology- what can it do that traditional networking can’t?

• Networking technologies required for quantum encryption and quantum entanglement

• The status of quantum network innovation in the United States

• Adapting existing fiber infrastructure for a quantum future