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Cisco's introduction of the Quantum Network Controller marks a pivotal shift from managing individual quantum links to orchestrating scalable, distributed quantum fabrics via an automated control plane. This research prototype enables "entanglement as a service," allowing applications to request specific network resources without manual intervention, which is essential for scaling beyond point-to-point demonstrations. By abstracting complex hardware management, this development addresses the critical need for interoperability and scale in heterogeneous quantum networks.

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Quantum Networking Gets a Control Plane

Cisco BlogsOctober 6, 20265 min read

Cisco introduces the Quantum Network Controller, a research prototype bringing entanglement as a service to heterogeneous, distributed quantum networks today.

Applications should be able to state what they need from a quantum network and receive it. Operators should not have to deliver that service device by device, link by link, command by command. Give me entanglement between these endpoints across a scale-out fabric, at this fidelity, at this rate, when I need it and for as long as I need it. The network should figure out the rest, retrying automatically until the entanglement succeeds, holding the tight timing that quantum operations demand, never reading the quantum information it carries, and doing all of it…

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