IBM, Cisco Plan Quantum Computing Internet By Early 2030s – Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), IBM (NYSE:IBM)

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) and Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) on Thursday disclosed plans to collaborate on building the foundation for networked distributed quantum computing.

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The partnership combines IBM’s expertise in practical quantum computers with Cisco’s innovations in quantum networking.

The companies aim to scale large, fault-tolerant quantum systems beyond IBM’s current roadmap and tackle key challenges toward creating a quantum computing internet.

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IBM and Cisco are targeting realization by the early 2030s. Within five years, the companies plan to showcase a proof-of-concept network linking large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, enabling joint computations across tens to hundreds of thousands of qubits.

Notably, this network could execute trillions of quantum gates, supporting…