Innovation

The quantum communication project of BeQCI, the consortium including Belnet, imec and Ghent University, has reached a new milestone. After the implementation of the first quantum communication infrastructure in Ghent last year, Belnet has now also successfully established a QKD link between Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: the very first cross-border MDI QKD connection, 45 km long, in the Benelux. Thanks to the integration of state-of-the-art technology from the Dutch company Q*Bird, the connection was extended to the European Space Agency in Redu, resulting in a total network distance of 132 kilometers.

Belnet has long been a major player in the field of open science, including through its role as a mandated organisation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association. The company recently took on another new innovative project, the Federal Open Science Cloud (FedOSC). We spoke to Sam Kauranne, FedOSC Product Manager, who explained to us what exactly FedOSC is and what the project means to our community.