Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
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Trio offers trials for a quantum key distribution service connecting London’s financial hub -
Intel will use technology from symmetric key distribution firm Arqit to enhance its post-quantum cryptography protection, the two firms announced today.
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Singtel will develop Singapore’s first National Quantum-Safe Network Plus (NQSN+) for enterprises in partnership with IDQ.
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Nokia and Proximus confirm the successful completion of Europe’s first live hybrid quantum encryption key trial.
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Vodafone and IBM are urging companies in the telecoms supply chain to make sure they are ready for the post-quantum world.
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Deutsche Telekom (DT) is to lead the construction of a quantum-secured communications system for the European Union.
Forthcoming events
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Traditional PKI methods of encrypting data are about to fall to the onslaught of quantum computing. Arqit, a start-up led by David Williams thinks it has a quantum-based solution, he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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A company planning to build quantum-based symmetric encryption for the cloud has succeeded in a reverse takeover that will value it at US$1.4 billion.
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TIM and its international operation, Sparkle, have demonstrated quantum cryptography across national boundaries at an international political conference.
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Luxembourg is to build a satellite-based quantum key distribution network in association with its local satellite company, SES.
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A UK company has started what it calls the country’s first quantum computing as-a-service (QCaaS) platform.
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KPN plans to build a Netherlands-wide quantum-secure telecoms network using its existing fibre infrastructure.
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A start-up company that is expected to be valued at US$1.4 billion by the end of August is launching its quantum-based telecoms encryption service in the middle of July.
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Quantum communications is moving so fast that Alan Burkitt-Gray follows the last issue’s innovation feature with a further look
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Season 2, episode 20 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Tiago Rodrigues, CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel has taken part in the presentation of IBM’s first quantum computer to a European research institution.
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Toshiba’s UK laboratory in Cambridge has pushed the distance for secure quantum communications to 600km.
