IonQ & Swiss Consortium’s Geneva’s Citywide Quantum Network
IonQ and Swiss Consortium Launch Geneva's First Citywide Quantum Network
IonQ and Swiss Consortium
World-leading quantum business IonQ established the first citywide quantum network for communication and research in Geneva, Switzerland. A unprecedented public-private partnership with respected Swiss partners includes this achievement. The Geneva Quantum Network (GQN) is the country's first specialised quantum network that unites regional institutions.
GQN was founded to promote quantum communications and cybersecurity cooperation, research, and innovation.
Leading Academic, Business, and Public Institutions Consortium
The Geneva Quantum Network required top-tier public, business, and academic organisations. CERN, UNIGE, Rolex SA, OCSIN, and HEPIA are IonQ consortium members.
IonQ Chairman and CEO Niccolo de Masi said this partnership with Rolex and CERN showcases IP and quantum cybersecurity and communication leadership. He said partnership with Geneva's leading government, corporate, and academic institutions is enabling practical quantum communications, speeding up research, and growing IonQ's ecosystem across many economic sectors.
Quantum Communication with Existing Infrastructure Effective use of present infrastructure was key to GQN deployment. IonQ used hundreds of miles of fibre optic infrastructure to connect Geneva partners.
Installation of IDQ's quantum key distribution (QKD) and quantum detection devices throughout the OCSIN fibre optic backbone supports the network's design. Early GQN experiments will study the dispersion of entangled photons between CERN, UNIGE, and HEPIA to study quantum information transfer across distances.
Partner Contributions to Sensing and Precision
The Swiss consortium partners' distinctive contributions are crucial to the network's functionality:
Rolex SA produces precise time signals. The company's cutting-edge optical rubidium atomic clock generates these pulses.
White Rabbit synchronisation technology, developed at CERN, will be used by the GQN to distribute precise time signals. These precise signals are necessary for basic communications and time measurement.
The installation of a distributed temperature sensor along network fibres falls under HEPIA. This sensor's high spatial resolution comes from single photon detectors.
QKD and quantum detection devices are implemented across a Cantonal Office for Information devices and Digital Technology fibre optic backbone.
Global Strategy and Quantum Leadership at IonQ
The GQN brings together industry, government, and academic stakeholders to help IonQ build scalable quantum infrastructure worldwide by combining quantum networking, sensing, and computation. The GQN builds on IonQ's recent global announcements. Oxford is IonQ's EMEA headquarters, the company is Korea's National Quantum Centre of Excellence's major quantum partner, and the Italian government wants Italy to be a quantum hub.
IonQ, Inc., the world's premier quantum corporation, address humanity's most complicated problems. In 2025, the company broke the global quantum computing performance record with a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.99%. IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo quantum computers have helped NVIDIA, AstraZeneca, and Amazon Web Services reach 20x performance results.
Accelerating Quantum Future
IonQ's tech roadmap is advancing quickly. With two million qubits, the company wants to build the most powerful quantum computers by 2030. This endeavour aims to accelerate innovation in cybersecurity, materials research, financial modelling, logistics, pharmaceutical development, and defence. IonQ's recent quantum networking advancements, including GQN, strengthen its role as a quantum internet pioneer.
With sites in Sweden, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, Toronto, Washington, California, and Maryland, IonQ operates globally. Forbes' 2025 Most Successful Mid-Cap Companies, Fortune Future 50, and Newsweek's 2025 Excellence Index 1000 recognize the company's breakthrough innovations and quick development. IonQ sells its devices through all major cloud providers to spread quantum technology.
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