New York funds Stony Brook quantum internet testbed

New York State and Stony Brook University have announced a $300 million investment to convert Long Island’s existing telecom fiber into a quantum communication testbed centered on SBU’s planned Quantum Research and Innovation Hub.

• The $300 million program will develop a 14,000 m² Quantum Research and Innovation Hub at Stony Brook, including the first data center for managing entangled photons over converted Long Island telecom fiber, aiming to support ultra-secure communications networks.
• SBU President Andrea Goldsmith highlighted that the team has already built the largest quantum network in the United States between Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), with ongoing research focused on maintaining photon entanglement over larger-scale networks to impact security, the economy and science.