By Light Reading
Publication Date: 2026-02-10 13:00:00
Orange Business and Cisco have today announced a collaboration to expand the telco’s Quantum Defender suite, which offers protection against future cyber threats stemming from quantum computers. They are launching post-quantum cryptography (PQC) protection for business customers using Cisco routers and software.
The first stage is offering the service for wide-area network (WAN) services using Cisco routers. This involves “software that has only PQC enabled in it for what they call core routing. So that’s our standard MPLS [multiprotocol label switching]-based VPS [virtual private server],” said Frank de Jong, programme director of quantum safe networks at Orange Business.
The next step will be offering the same service for software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), and this should be available later this year.
Even though we are still years away from a commercially available, fully functioning quantum computer, the race is on to shore up defenses against the cyber risks they will eventually…
