We have repeatedly written about the fact that in different parts of the world and then tested devices quantum communication. It would seem that further experiments it will go not soon, but now, according to the Xinhua news Agency, China completed the establishment of the country’s first commercial sirsasana quantum communication network. Commissioning is planned in the near future.
Responsible for the development of scientists from the Institute for quantum technologies of the Chinese city of Jinan in Shandong province. New quantum communication network will be used to contact users of the government of the city of Jinan. Later it will connect with the same network that will also link Beijing and Shanghai. Thus China will be one of the biggest quantum networks in the world.
Specialists of the Institute of quantum technology, Jinan just two months ago completed the necessary tests and has prepared the network to run. Scientists said that the tests were obtained good results, especially in the area of security, data transfer and phone calls. The use of quantum technologies has made the network fully protected against tampering from the outside.
It is worth saying that at the moment China is one of the leaders in the use of quantum technologies. So, in the country since 2012, an experimental quantum network, and in the past year of 2016, China launched the world’s first quantum satellite. With it, the Chinese experts had the opportunity to test for the transmission of communication codes with the help of photons.
Based on materials of RIA “news”
China built the first commercial quantum communication network
Vladimir Kuznetsov