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Tomorrow, you'll meet the first companies building on ABQ-Net, the only open-access quantum network in America. Four companies. One network. Live in New Mexico. Advancing quantum on deployed fiber. These are real companies, with real technology, solving real problems for defense, energy, finance, telecommunications, and beyond. New Mexico saw quantum coming and built the network first. Tomorrow, you see who's using it. 👇

New Mexico's quantum bet is working. Companies are committing to ABQ-Net. People with no quantum background are training for real jobs and new careers. World-changing technologies are being tested by companies from around the world on the network. All because the state built an asset everyone needed before they asked. Wait until you see what companies are testing on it.

A few years ago, New Mexico saw where the world was heading: quantum. So the state made a bet. Build the network first, and the companies will come. The New Mexico Economic Development Department teamed up with Roadrunner Venture Studios and Qunnect to make it real. Watch this space to see the result this month.

Testing quantum technology in the real world can cost millions of dollars. So most technologies are stuck in a lab. But we partnered with New Mexico Economic Development Department and Roadrunner Venture Studios to change that. This month, you'll see what impact it's having on the quantum industry. 👀

One quantum computer is powerful. Connected quantum computers will be even more powerful. And connecting them is the next challenge. That's the vision behind Cisco's latest quantum networking work, as highlighted by The Silicon Review. Earlier this year, Qunnect and Cisco demonstrated that vision swapping entanglement over live fiber in Manhattan. At room temperature. Over existing telecom fiber. Through a commercial data center. Nearly 10,000× beyond the previous entanglement-swapping benchmark. What applications become possible when quantum computers can work together?

Entanglement networks will be a critical part of the US communication infrastructure, enabling applications beyond what is possible on today’s networks. Use-cases are emerging with heavy interest across the finance, telecom and defense sectors such as secure, pico-second time synchronization; quantum position verification; unspoof-able user authentication; network-aware quantum alarms, and distributed quantum sensing and computing. Yet, the key to them all is establishing automated, 24/7 operational entanglement links on already deployed fibers. The challenge in making this real for the US is the more than 40% of telecom fiber that is aerial and exposed to environmental effects and drifts. With our partners at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), we have shared the results of a demonstration using Qunnect ’s Qu-APC, now reviewed and published, showing entanglement can remain useful even in these challenging environments. Across 62km aerial fiber, we have shownthe first clear proof that even fibers exposed to these environmental challenges can be actively compensated and made suitable for entanglement distribution thanks to commercially available products like Qunnect's Carina. Congrats for this great work Thomas Gerrits , Oliver (Ollie) Slattery , yicheng shi , Mael Flament , Gabriel Bello Portmann , and everyone else involved ⚛️ …. https://lnkd.in/gD3NfND9

Every current encryption method has the same weakness. Someone can steal the data now and wait for the computer that breaks it later. Quantum physics secures that lock completely instead of just closing it tighter. Entangled particles are highly sensitive and change the moment they are observed. With entanglement-based networks, eavesdroppers can't stay hidden the way it does on a digital line. Qunnect is building quantum networks to protect the most sensitive data with provably-secure communications. Security based on physics. Hardware and software working together. What would you want to protect first on your network?

Manhattan is a hard place to prove a quantum network works. It's also the place that matters. The pristine environment offered by a lab provide the variables to test whether a network survives in the real world. Commercial fiber running through a busy city connected to a live data center does. GothamQ runs on exactly that. 17.6 kilometers through QTD Systems' data center at 60 Hudson Street in downtown Manhattan, carrying regular day-to-day data traffic the entire time. That's where Qunnect and Cisco broke the entanglement swapping record, close to 10,000 times past prior benchmarks. Qunnect's tech ensures entanglement survives Manhattan's fiber—proof it can ensure entanglement survives anywhere. What would you want to test on a network that's already proven under the toughest conditions?

Quantum technology reaches its full potential when it's connected. Quantum computers increase compute power. Sensors get better data. Networks connect more places. That's the idea behind the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s new Project Triad. The goal is to connect quantum sensors, quantum computers, and quantum networks into one ecosystem that can work together. That's exactly what quantum networking is supposed to do. From the beginning, Qunnect has focused on connecting devices, sensors, and computers over practical quantum networks. GothamQ in New York. BearlinQ in Berlin. ABQ-Net in Albuquerque. Room temperature. Existing telecom fiber. Built for the real world. What would you connect first?

Last week, Washington held a summit to accelerate commercialization of quantum, strengthen our nation's capabilities, and align on quantum strategy. New Mexico offers a blueprint they began implementing more than a year ago. Universities, a national lab, utilities, aligned around a state-wide strategy fast backed up by $300 million in state investment. A workforce plan running through trade schools and community colleges, no PhD required. And ABQ-Net, the nation's first open-access, full-stack quantum network, is already live in Albuquerque, built by Qunnect and Roadrunner Venture Studios. What would it take for your region to stop planning and start building?