Los Alamos National Labs Has Working Hub-and-Spoke Quantum Network 55
New submitter hutsell writes with this excerpt from MIT's Technology Review: "Richard Hughes and his associates at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico announced today that they have been sending perfectly secure messages with their Quantum Internet that has been in operation for the last two and a half years."
Original paper. Unlike current quantum networks that only allow point-to-point networking, the system at Los Alamos combines traditional and quantum links to route messages through a hub while retaining the security advantages of quantum networking.
Re:Was anyone else hoping.... (Score:4, Funny)
Why do you think it took them two and a half years to report this? They had to make dead cat versions of every cat video on YouTube just so they could properly distribute them over the quantum network. That's a lot of dead cat videos. Your tax dollars at work.
Re:I propose the name "QuantumLink" (Score:4, Funny)
Here, have some geek cred!