About Toshiba Quantum Technology
Preparing for a quantum future
We’re at the cutting-edge of innovation in quantum technology. Since 1999, we’ve achieved a series of world firsts in QKD development and deployment, harnessing quantum physics to future-proof network communications infrastructures.
Toshiba’s Quantum Technology division provides the Toshiba Quantum-Safe Networking (QSN) Platform, bringing together interoperable quantum-safe technologies and capabilities that can be easily integrated into and scale with existing communications networks. Built on more than two decades of quantum innovation, QSN helps organizations protect critical data, maintain trust and navigate one of the largest cryptographic transitions in history.
Securing the quantum age
At Toshiba, we’re committed to helping organizations navigate the transition to quantum-safe networking. As part of this commitment, we have developed the Toshiba Quantum-Safe Networking (QSN) Platform, bringing together quantum-safe technologies and capabilities within a unified platform that can be easily integrated into existing communications networks.
Designed to support the protection of critical communications and sensitive data, QSN enables organisations to begin where protection is needed most and scale as requirements evolve. By combining technologies such as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), the platform provides a future-proof, resilient and crypto-agile approach to security that can adapt as technologies, standards and threats continue to change.
What is QSN?
A scalable foundation for the quantum-safe transition. Toshiba Quantum-Safe Networking (QSN) helps organizations protect critical data and communications against both current and future threats. The platform enables scalable quantum-safe protection within a unified architecture, enabling organizations to begin where protection is needed most and expand as requirements evolve.
At the cutting edge of quantum communications since 1999
Backed by world-leading experts, Toshiba has delivered a series of world firsts in quantum communications research, development and deployment. Our team continues to advance the science that underpins quantum-safe networking, helping shape industry standards and enabling the development of next-generation quantum communications technologies.
Through more than two decades of innovation, collaboration and real-world deployment experience, Toshiba has established itself as one of the leading pioneers in quantum-safe communications, delivering technologies that are proven in operational networks around the world.
Latest research
- A semiconductor quantum dot interface for entangled multiphoton generation in the telecom C-band
- Electrically Tunable and Purcell Enhanced Telecom Single-Photon Emission from Quantum Dots in Circular Photonic Crystal Resonators
- Phase Randomization of DFB Laser Pulses Beyond the Diffusion Limit
- Seamless Satellite–Fibre Quantum Networking with a Compact Space-Deployable QKD Payload
- Feasibility of multi-gigahertz satellite-to-ground secure quantum communication
- Compact GHz-Gated InGaAs/InP SPAD Arrays for Quantum Key Distribution
Our people
Our heritage
In 1999, we began research into quantum cryptography at the Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Limited. In 2003, we were the first to announce Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) over 100 km of fibre. By 2008, we had collaborated in the first QKD network in Europe as a core partner of the EU-funded SECOQC project in Vienna.
Since then, we have continued to advance quantum communications technologies, increasing the range and secure key rates of our systems, enabling coexistence on existing fibre infrastructure and supporting increasingly complex network architectures. These innovations have helped shape the technologies and expertise that underpin today’s Toshiba Quantum-Safe Networking (QSN) Platform and our broader vision for the transition to quantum-safe networking.
