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The European Commission's €47.5 million investment enables the Quantum Internet Alliance to integrate core components into a full-stack prototype, marking a critical transition from isolated building blocks to interconnected metropolitan-scale quantum networks. This initiative focuses on deploying quantum repeaters and open-access infrastructure to support large-scale quantum communications applications across Europe.
Quantum Internet Alliance to build full-stack quantum networks

The Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) secured €47.5 million from the European Commission to build a full-stack quantum network prototype.
© Charlesdeluvio – Unsplash · qt.eu The European Commission is investing €47.5 million in the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) to build a complete prototype of a full-stack quantum internet. Over the next 42 months, the consortium of over 50 institutions will focus on interconnecting metropolitan-scale quantum…
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