- Cisco’s May 2025 quantum entanglement chip, featured in the post’s video clip, generates 200 million entangled photon pairs per second, enabling scalable quantum networking without traditional radio frequencies.
- Developed with UC Santa Barbara, the prototype supports distributed quantum computing, with Cisco and IBM’s November 2025 partnership aiming for fault-tolerant networks by the late 2030s.
- A single photon’s potential to encode vast information relies on quantum superposition; studies show up to 10 bits per photon via orbital angular momentum, but encoding the world’s ~120 zettabytes remains theoretically possible yet practically infeasible today.