Building the fabric of quantum networking

Reimagining data centres for the quantum era

Cisco’s arXiv paper "Quantum Data Center Infrastructures," introduces an architecture for quantum data centers. The challenges for quantum data center network fabric are fundamentally different from classical ones.

Quantum data centers must preserve fragile quantum states, distribute entanglement resources, facilitate teleportation between processors and synchronize operations with sub-nanosecond precision. These capabilities are not in commercial off-the-shelf networking components.