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Toshiba Europe and Quantum Bridge Technologies Demonstrate Global Information-Theoretic Network Architecture
Toshiba Europe Limited (Toshiba) and Quantum Bridge Technologies Inc. (QBT) have finalized a live network demonstration establishing an international, information-theoretic secure (ITS) data transmission system. Unveiled at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2026, the cross-continental deployment connected operational metropolitan Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) networks in Cambridge, UK, and Toronto, Canada. The physical implementation was executed on field-installed carrier-grade fiber infrastructure hosted within data centers operated by Telehouse Canada Inc., a subsidiary of KDDI Corporation. The project validates an architecture designed to mitigate the distance limitations of standard fiber-based QKD by bypassing the absolute requirement for ultra-long-distance quantum repeaters or satellite linkages.
