By Joe O’Halloran
Publication Date: 2025-11-24 09:35:00
Just weeks after the IT and networking giant revealed that it had developed software designed to make the new networking paradigm work through networking application demos for classical use cases, Cisco has announced a partnership with IBM to build a network of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, laying the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realised as soon as the early 2030s.
The two firms believe that distributed quantum networks could lay the groundwork towards a quantum computing internet defined by quantum computers, sensors and communication in the late 2030s.
By combining IBM’s expertise in building quantum computers with Cisco’s quantum networking development work, the companies plan to explore how to scale large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. Additionally, they plan to work to solve fundamental challenges towards a quantum computing internet.
Within five years, IBM and Cisco will aim to demonstrate the first…
