ABSTRACT
Building a quantum internet is a key ambition for many countries around the world as such a breakthrough will give them competitive advantage in a promising disruptive technology, and opens a new world of innovations and unlimited possibilities. Recently the US Department of Energy published the first blueprint of its kind, laying out a step-by-step strategy to make the quantum internet dream come true. A quantum internet would be able to transmit large volumes of data across immense distances at a rate that exceeds the speed of light. Academics, researchers, and IT professionals will need to create devices for the infrastructure of quantum internet including: quantum routers, repeaters, gateways, hubs, and other quantum tools. A whole new industry will be born based on the idea of a quantum internet existing in parallel with the current ecosystem of companies the authors have in a regular internet.
