Deutsche Telekom leads the way to ‘quantum internet’
German operator and startup Qunnect are betting on entanglement as an enabling capability for a future ‘quantum internet’. A recent joint research project achieved what they see as a breakthrough in the push towards live use of quantum comms in metropolitan fibre networks.
This article includes:
- Themes: Distributed quantum computing; Entanglement distribution; Fibre‑optic quantum networking; Metro quantum networks; Post‑quantum cryptography (PQC); Quantum communication; Quantum entanglement; Quantum internet; Quantum key distribution (QKD); Quantum memory; Quantum networking infrastructure; Quantum repeaters; Quantum sensing; Quantum‑safe services; Time synchronisation.
- Events: April 2025 field trial; BearlinQ project; November 2025 research paper; Quantum entanglement demonstration.
- People: Dr. Matheus Ribeiro Sena; Dr. Noel Goddard.
- Geographic: Berlin; Germany; New York.
- Organisations: Cisco; Deutsche Telekom (DT); Qunnect; T‑Labs; Telefónica.
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