DEPLOYMENT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL QUANTUM NETWORKS IN THE NETHERLANDS | News

EuroQCI is a European project of the Digital Europe Program (DEP) funding national projects for EU secure Quantum Communication Infrastructure.

The national Dutch program is called QCINed and started in 2023 with a volume of almost 10 Mio Eur co-funded by the EU Commission. For 30 months the partners are committed to facilitating and deploying the Dutch Quantum network.

The main objectives are:

· To deploy quantum systems and networks in the Netherlands for testing quantum communication technologies and for integrating them with existing communication networks.

· To use these quantum systems and networks for developing and testing use cases in support of the Dutch national QCI initiative in the context of the EuroQCI initiative.

· To contribute to European technological autonomy by using pilot devices, technologies, and systems developed and manufactured in the EU.

· To train technical and research staff as well as national users from public authorities

THE GOAL IS TO DEPLOY THREE DIFFERENT ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL QKD NETWORKS IN 3 AREAS

· Utrecht area

Development of a QKD network in the Utrecht area, aimed at an automated QKD as a service to be provisioned - using the operational classic domain and introducing a new quantum domain, which will be the fundament for a future rollout of a national Quantum Network.

· Amsterdam – The Hague area

The realization of a Governmental QKD testbed. Connecting multiple dutch Ministries to exchange governmental data in the Amsterdam – the Hague region.

· Eindhoven area

Set up of a pre-staging testbed network in which technologies relevant to the deployment of EuroQCI will be tested and validated in the Eindhoven region. With the goal to deploy an QKD & Industry agnostic testbed.

Source：https://quantumdelta.nl/qcined