In a groundbreaking experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania successfully extended quantum networking beyond the laboratory by transmitting signals over commercial fiber-optic cables using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that drives today's web. Getty Images Northwestern University engineers are the first to. Pittaluga and his colleagues at Toshiba Europe sent quantum information from regular computers hooked into the telecommunications network at data centers in the German cities of Kehl and Frankfurt, relaying them through a detector at a third data center roughly midway between them in Kirchfeld. The. The universities of Bristol and Cambridge in the UK and Deutsche Telekom in Germany have announced separate advances in quantum communications over classical fiber networks. In the case of the UK, researchers demonstrated a videoconference, the transfer of encrypted medical data and secure remote. The system, developed by Toshiba Europe, transmitted quantum-encrypted messages at 110 bits per second, a modest but revolutionary speed for quantum technology. the quantum bits or qubits) to be “teleported” across space. Despite the sci-fi connotation of the word teleportation. A Penn team has shown that quantum signals can ride alongside everyday internet traffic on commercial fiber.