Our story
Q*Bird is a Delft-based company, founded in January 2022 by experts in quantum communication from QuTech/TU Delft. With over 30 years of combined experience, our team has developed a unique MDI-QKD (Measurement Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution) product that leverages the fundamental laws of physics to ensure provable security, even against future quantum computers.
Our technology, extensively tested in collaboration with industry leaders like Cisco, Juniper, and Eurofiber, offers unmatched security and cost efficiency.
Q*Bird is proud to have secured a launching customer in the Port of Rotterdam and has signed contracts to deploy quantum networks across Europe.
Q*Bird has extensive experience in creating and integrating these products with companies, for commercial and industrial purposes.
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Achievements & Roadmap
Today, we are building QKD devices for secure communication with quantum technology. This includes network communication devices for securely transferring data protected from even the most powerful computers, devices for sending qubits, hubs that generate entanglement and networks that provide multipoint-to-multipoint connectivity. And all are intrinsically more secure than point-to-point based QKD solutions
Tomorrow, we will enable quantum connectivity between quantum devices for general quantum networking applications. The same technology as that of our hubs will be used to connect quantum processing nodes and quantum sensors. Our systems will provide the basis for the quantum internet of the future.
Collaborations
Operating at the forefront of quantum technology, we retain strong ties with QuTech and the TU Delft University. Q*Bird is part of the Quantum Delft and Quantum Delta NL ecosystem and embedded in the National Quantum Network program of Quantum Delta NL.
We are deploying various technologies with a variety of commercial partners (Financials, Telcoms, Data centers), including QKD prototype systems deployed in testbeds around the Netherlands such as Eurofiber’s Utrecht area network. This testbed is open for new partners to join and co-explore the possibilities of quantum secured communications.
Next-Gen systems will be launched in the Port of Rotterdam. Partners of the Port of Rotterdam will be able to participate in this multi-user quantum network and test securing their critical communication systems with quantum
