NodeQ, founded in 2021 by Stefano Pirandola, creates software for quantum network architecture and optimization. The company offers next-generation distributed quantum computing, quantum-enhanced sensors, and high-speed quantum-safe communications. Among the company’s target market are businesses hoping to increase their quantum computing capacity.
The company specializes in next-generation quantum computing networks (based on entanglement distribution) and high-speed quantum-safe networks (based on post-quantum crypto or quantum key distribution). It also minimizes hardware requirements, maximizes speed to surpass standards, enables clients to account for hybrid architectures, minimizes costs, maximizes performance, and more.
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NodeQ’s Technology & Service
Situated in York, England, nodeQ’s ultimate goal is to create quantum networks for commercial and industrial use, as well as software tools for quantum entanglement en route at different scales and across different network structures.
PQtunnel
Aligned with nodeQ’s objective of providing next-generation software to different industries with high-speed quantum-safe communications and quantum-safe sensor networks (quantum IoT), the company has recently launched the PQTunnel, a Cybersecurity Solution for Quantum-Safe Communication.
This application is intended to smoothly streamline the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography for SMEs and large companies. Service disruption attacks decrease performance by sending interfering signals into the channel for jamming and alien-wavelength attacks. Physical infrastructure assaults, which include single component failure, disaster attacks, and critical location attacks, cause physical damage to the optical network infrastructure, such as link or node failure. Software-defined network (SDN) controllers are currently put in the control plane to give network operators logical, centralized control and efficiently manage network resources.
To meet the demand for quantum-resistant cryptography, nodeQ has successfully created PQtunnel, a flexible client-server application for establishing quantum-safe end-to-end connections through traditional networks. PQtunnel is designed as a cross-platform, ensuring consistent functionality across multiple operating systems (for example, Linux and Windows).
QKeyGen
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is one of many industries’ most well-known quantum communication applications. QKD generates and distributes secret keys to end users to encrypt and decrypt private data. These secret keys are transmitted through a quantum signal channel (QSCh), any security breach can be recognized immediately by either the sender or the recipient.
As a result, QKD has the potential to increase blockchain network security. As a result, combining QKD and blockchain is expected to pave the way for a new and secure technology known as quantum-secured blockchain. As a result, this unique and safe technology is a promising solution for boosting optical network security and performance against malicious attacks.
Thus, with nodeQ, the company has developed a versatile QKD software that accurately simulates QKD protocols, handles comprehensive data processing, and extracts the ultimate secret key.
QKeyGen is ideal for companies looking to implement QKD solutions that must test and simulate their transition to rigorous quantum security. Companies who want to validate the output of vendor-locked hardware boxes (which generally provide non-composable and minimal security. Companies are in need of a hardware-independent software solution and institutions that handle experimental data to publish research.
telaQ
For businesses just starting with quantum-safe communications, nodeQ has also developed telaQ, a simple graphical interface that creates a quantum-safe network or merges an existing conventional network with quantum-safe communications. telaQ provides the most effective routing solution and an in-depth network simulation for any traffic scenario.
The classical and quantum links make up the QKD links. channels, both of which can be open to the public but must be authenticated. The traditional channel used to transmit Classical signals and data can use the same medium. communications, which is not covered in full here. Unlike classical transmissions, quantum signals are far more sensitive to interference. Scattering and loss of propagation are two examples of propagation flaws.
Optical fibers in addition to atmospheric turbulence. Free-space optical links face this problem. Regrettably, they cannot be easily amplified since amplifying the quantum is difficult. Signals would necessitate quantum measurement and cloning states, which violates the quantum no-cloning theorem.
The application supports various PQC algorithms involved in the NIST standardization and high-level security protocols such as SSH. Users can use PQtunnel to establish secure, quantum-safe remote server connections, file transfers, and SSH tunneling.
About the People Behind nodeQ
Stefano Pirandola, CEO
With over 190 peer-reviewed scientific publications to his credit, Pirandola is a quantum information and computation professor at the University of York, Heslington, England. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Camerino, Italy. He currently specializes in quantum communication, capacity, security, networking, and quantum internet. He was also previously employed as an International Marie Curie fellow at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Continuous-variable quantum information is a more sophisticated setup that allows for the design of quantum protocols at considerably greater rates. Pirandola has made significant contributions to this field. He identified the maximum potential for quantum communication over quantum networks and channels, among other accomplishments.
Prof Sam Braunstein
Among his many groundbreaking accomplishments, Sam Braunstein created quantum teleportation networks, pioneered the subject of quantum metrology, and introduced the first bosonic model for universal quantum computing. He also contributed to introducing and developing quantum teleportation with continuous variables.
Prof Sam Braunstein pioneered continuous-variable (CV) quantum information
Introduced the first bosonic model for universal quantum computing and quantum error correction, introduced CV quantum teleportation, designed teleportation networks, contributed to develop the field of quantum metrology, etc.
