Overview

• Cisco's prototype entanglement source chip is designed to enable quantum networking by linking smaller quantum processors into distributed systems.
• The chip operates at room temperature, generates one million entangled photon pairs per second, and is compatible with existing fiber-optic infrastructure.
• Developed at Cisco’s Outshift incubator in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara, the chip is positioned as the foundational building block for a future quantum internet.
• Cisco has opened Cisco Quantum Labs in Santa Monica, California, to advance quantum network infrastructure, software, and commercialization efforts.
• While the chip remains experimental with no set revenue timeline, Cisco claims it could reduce the timeline for practical quantum computing by 5–10 years.