Quantum for Telecommunications
Networks, security and infrastructure control in the transition to quantum-safe communications
Telecommunications is emerging as one of the first sectors in which the quantum transition becomes an operational infrastructure problem rather than a distant technological prospect. Telecom operators depend on public-key cryptography across network security, authentication, routing, mobile-core functions, roaming, firmware signing, PKI, VPNs, IoT services and managed-security products. At the same time, they own or operate the fibre, optical transport, interconnection, edge, timing and service-management layers through which quantum-safe communications will have to be deployed. The strategic issue is therefore not simply whether telecom operators will adopt quantum technologies, but how far they will become customers, infrastructure enablers and gatekeepers of the future quantum-secure network layer.