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US Department of Energy quantum internet program

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Quantum internet moves from dedicated labs toward existing fiber

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Sets national roadmap this work advances

For years, quantum networks needed their own private fiber, sealed off from ordinary internet traffic. Northwestern University just broke that rule. Its team sent entangled photons through 24.4 kilometers of Chicago telecom cable while that same cable carried normal commercial internet data.

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