Deutsche Telekom leads the way to ‘quantum internet’

Dawn Bushaus2026-02-05T15:21:00

Source: Qunnect

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.

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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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