Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Telefonica Germany to conduct a pilot project to test quantum technologies in the telecom operator’s mobile network, Reuters news report said.
AWS, the # 1 Cloud service provider in the world, and Telefonica will look to calculate the optimal placement of mobile towers, find ways to secure the network with quantum encryption, and use the insights to develop 6G networks.
“If you wait until quantum computing is there, it’s too late. You really have to start working now with the prototypes,” Antia Lamas-Linares, principal applied scientist at AWS, said.
“We are creating the necessary conditions to leverage quantum technologies and their possibilities in our network,” said Mallik Rao, Chief Technology & Information Officer at O2 Telefonica.
Earlier this year, Telefonica Germany announced plans to move one million of its 5G customers to the AWS cloud.
Telefonica Germany will move another million customers in next six months time. Telefonica Germany has created plans to move at least three to four million customers in the next 12 to 18 months to the AWS cloud.