Cisco and Infleqtion Team Up for Quantum Networking Breakthrough

Infleqtion Inc., a Louisville-based quantum technology company that went public in February, has announced a collaboration with Cisco Systems Inc. to pursue joint research and development focused on connecting and operating quantum systems.

The companies will explore architectures to link individual devices into distributed networks, an important step toward making distributed quantum systems a reality.

'The next major breakthrough in quantum will not come from building bigger isolated machines, but from networking systems together,' said Ramana Kompella, vice president and head of Cisco Research.

Infleqtion's systems combine native quantum memory with multi-modal computing and sensing, providing the device-level hardware and optical interfaces needed to connect into broader networks. Cisco is developing a modality-agnostic quantum network architecture through its Cisco Quantum Labs to connect heterogeneous quantum computers, sensors, and other technologies into scalable systems.