QCINed: Towards a National Quantum Communication Infrastructure in The Netherlands.

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QCINed builds up on the National Program on Quantum Technologies which aims at deploying a Quantum Network across the country. In this first phase of development efforts are focused on deploying three different advanced experimental QKD networks that will serve to different but complementary purposes, all in line with EuroQCI ambitions. An QKD deployment network will be deployed around the Utrecht area for testing of solutions that will ensure the provision of QKD services across sectors, over larger distances and across multiple domains (e.g. Automation & Orchestration). A QKD network will be deployed between four different locations in the Amsterdam- The Hague area and aims at having a staging network connecting the Ministries of Justice and Security and the Ministry of Foreign affairs to governmental data challenges. Integration of MDI-QKD solutions with classical VPN tunneling will be implemented in this network. The possibility to integrate post quantum algorithms will also be tested. The third QKD network will be deployed around the Eindhoven region, a pre-staging testbed network aiming to be an environment in which technologies relevant to the deployment of EuroQCI could be tested and validated. This third network will also focus on the development of new use cases, including industrial ones. Last, but not least, QCINed will offer a variety of training tools and workshops with the ambition to create awareness of the possibilities of the first generation Quantum Networks, engage with stakeholders and train users, engineers, ICT-architects, and also the future workforce.