Cisco, unveiled a unified quantum networking software stack that enables quantum computers to work together as one system, overcoming the hardware limitations of today's machines. This enables organizations to run quantum algorithms across multiple processors, while also supporting new classical applications built on quantum networking.
There are three research prototypes to advance Cisco's quantum networking strategy. Each run on a unified quantum networking software stack, which is the vital infrastructure that makes quantum computers work together instead of alone:
Quantum Compiler: The industry's first network-aware distributed quantum compiler, enabling algorithms to run across multiple processors, alongside the first compiler supporting distributed quantum error correction.
Quantum Alert: An application demo for eavesdropper-proof security with guarantees from physics, not promises from classical software.
Quantum Sync: A decision coordination application demo that uses entanglement to enable correlated decision-making across distributed locations for classical use cases.
Building the Complete Quantum Networking StackCisco has long believed in a full-stack approach to building high-performance systems, designing custom silicon, integrated hardware, and the software layers that manage them. This philosophy helped pioneer many of the foundational technologies of the classical internet, from data centers to wireless networks. The same systems-level strategy is now being applied to quantum networking. Cisco is developing the complete stack, including a quantum networking chip, control software with protocols and controllers, and applications that bridge quantum and classical worlds. Following the launch of the quantum network entanglement chip, which is capable of generating more than 200 million entangled photon pairs per second, Cisco is unveiling the software that makes quantum networking operational.
