We introduce the NIST Platform for Quantum Network Innovation (PQNI) – a new testbed on the NIST campus to accelerate the integration of quantum systems into a real life, active network in a controlled scientific setting. The testbed will be used to evaluate quantum scale devices and components such as single photon sources, detectors, memories and interfaces within various quantum network protocols and configurations for performance, optimization, synchronization, loss compensation, error correction, compatibility with conventional network traffic (often referred to as co-existence), continuity of operations and more.

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Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang, Oliver Slattery, and Abdella Battou, "A testbed for quantum communication and quantum networks," Proc. SPIE 10984, Quantum Information Science, Sensing, and Computation XI, 1098407 (Presented at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing: April 18, 2019; Published: 13 May 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2519081.