The speaker for our next meetup on June 29, 2023 will be Robert Broberg.

The meetup will be at Blockchain Center NYC at 2307 Broadway on the UWS (between 83rd and 84th).

Abstract :

Robert will give a survey of quantum networking testbeds across the world and the technologies being deployed. He will highlight recent advances in multi-node quantum networks and review recently demonstrated quantum network enabled applications beyond QKD. He will review the recently announced DARPA program, Quanet, that looks to explore new quantum enabled features in existing classical networks.

Bio:

Robert Broberg (KP) has 38 years of industrial career making significant contributions to the developing internet in all 7 layers of the OSI model. While at Cisco Robert led the development and deployment of the first internet optical transport links that were integrated into existing telecommunication infrastructure. Robert holds numerous patents, published numerous papers and led 3 academic-industrial research programs that have led to multi-billion dollar businesses. His recent interest is the integration of distributed quantum systems into the existing internet transport. The Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model) serves as the model for the current internet defining abstraction layers for the physical layer (e.g. fiber, RF) up through the application layer(e.g. Facebook). Exploring quantum support needed in the context of OSI’s Physical and MAC layer definitions will provide a direction for developing distributed quantum systems that will map into existing infrastructure thus accelerating the deployment and adoption of new quantum internet enabled applications(e.g. QKD, entanglement, distributed quantum computing).