13 November 2024 | “I’ll be a second”, “Can I borrow you for a second?”, “Have you got a second?”. Phrases we hear many times each day but what exactly is a second? Since, well time immemorial, we have been attempting to measure time to greater and greater degrees of precision and accuracy because so much of fundamental science relies on being able to measure everything and virtually all these...
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13 November 2024 | Imagine running a successful restaurant without a well-organised kitchen. Chaos would ensue; misplaced ingredients, delayed orders, and a compromised dining experience. Now, envision your network as that bustling kitchen. Just as a chef needs an orderly kitchen to deliver meals efficiently, network administrators rely on well-organised data for effective orchestration and...
13 November 2024 | Quantum computing offers huge opportunities to the research and education (R&E) community as well as to commercial enterprise. Quantum computers have the power to tackle problems far beyond the current reach of classical computing, from simulating complex protein folding and predicting meteorological phenomena to modelling financial systems. However, quantum computers...
11 July 2024 | Quantum communications harness quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement to enhance information transfer between remote nodes. The key benefits of these techniques are the ability to be able to detect if communications have been intercepted or modified en-route. Which makes these techniques ideal for highly sensitive data interchange. However, coherent quantum...
14 February 2024 | Virtually everyone knows about the discovery of the Higgs Boson by CERN and how LHCONE has supported that. But indeed, within the fields of physics, astrophysics and cosmology there are way more experiments that rely upon the LHCONE network. Here is an overview of the science collaborations that use LHCONE today. ATLAS – Pushing the frontiers of knowledge (atlas.cern)...
14 November 2023 | Quantum computing has long been considered to be the next revolution in computing. Quantum computers will, it is claimed, be able to solve complex problems that would take existing supercomputers weeks or months to complete, in a matter of seconds. Alas, up until now, the largest quantum computer has reached only 433 qubits and these computers use massively more power than...
14 November 2023 | In the past few years, National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) have successfully developed and tested new T&F techniques using optical fibres which have shown a stability performance of at least three orders of magnitude better than the current best commercial services. Moreover, such techniques offer an alternative to Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for end-users...
14 November 2023 | Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) provides provably secure protection against attacks by quantum computers on current public key encryption protocols and infrastructures. QKD is being increasingly deployed globally and there are some important considerations for practical QKD deployment in today’s fibre networks. High optical budgets and high Secret Key Rates (SKR) QKD systems...