A new €10 million project is being launched in Waterford this afternoon.
The Ireland Quantum Communications Infrastructure - or QCI - programme is being led by SETU's Walton Institute.
Its ultimate aim is to secure and future-proof our communications infrastructure against the rising threat of cyber-attacks, similar to the MTU and HSE attacks in recent years.
Technology specialists from Irish and European universities are coming together with industry leaders and organisations for their first face-to-face meeting as part of the project today.
Dr Deirdre Kilbane is Director of Research at Walton Institute.
Speaking on Déise Today, she says: " We are going to be able to secure communications systems so that we can transfer data securely for the benefit of humanity. Where we have instances where people want to secure medical data or even images or emails, we would use quantum technology to do this."
Ireland Quantum Communications Infrastructure consists of experts from six different universities, led by Waterford’s Walton Institute in South East Technological University (SETU), and also includes specialists in quantum technologies f
rom Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork’s Tyndall National Institute, with support from University College Dublin (UCD) and Maynooth University (MU), the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (University of Galway), as
well as HEAnet and ESB Telecoms.
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