Cisco Touts Advance in Quantum Networking
Cisco, Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Cisco has unveiled a research prototype of a quantum network entanglement chip that it claims will allow quantum networks to connect quantum processors for real-world use cases. The company is also opening a research facility, Cisco Quantum Labs, to advance development of quantum technologies.
As a networking company, Cisco's approach to the deep complexities of quantum computing takes a decidedly network-centric approach. Among the challenges of quantum technology is that a quantum computer would require 1.4 million to 20 million quibits to run a software program, but today's quantum processors contain only a few hundred. Cisco's answer to this problem is to use next-gen networking to enable quantum processors to work in tandem, and so support practical applications for quantum.