By Martyn Warwick
Publication Date: 2025-12-01 10:54:00
IBM and Cisco have teamed up on a mission to enable practical, distributed and networked quantum computing “by the early 2030s”.
Parlaying the individual skills and expertise of the two companies – IBM’s in quantum machines and Cisco’s in quantum networking technologies – the initial aim is, by the end of 2030, to demonstrate the first proof of concept (PoC) for a physically linked network combining hardware and software comprising “individual, large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers” that “work together to run computations over tens to hundreds of thousands of qubits”.
Furthermore, the two will collaborate to “solve fundamental challenges towards a quantum computing internet”. If successful, that would be quite something.
According to Jay Gambetta, director of IBM Research (and IBM Fellow), the tech giant’s roadmap “includes plans to deliver large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers before the end of the decade. By working with Cisco to…
