{"id":49458,"date":"2025-03-29T01:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-partners-with-specqtral-on-quantum-communications\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:03:20","slug":"ses-partners-with-specqtral-on-quantum-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-partners-with-specqtral-on-quantum-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Partners With SpecQtral on Quantum Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SES<\/strong> has made an interesting move when it comes to quantum-secure communications. It has teamed up with Singapore-based <strong>SpeQtral<\/strong> to develop an interoperable optical ground station (OGS) to establish long-distance satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD) between Asia and Europe. The two companies announced the MoU on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the development of an interoperable OGS will enable SES and SpeQtral to connect both companies\u2019 current and future QKD satellite missions, to diversify the supply of long-distance QKD to end users in Asia, Europe, and other future compatible ground stations worldwide. SES and SpeQtral said integrating this proposed OGS with Singapore\u2019s fiber-QKD network will help future customers integrate their networks with satellite QKD networks and demonstrate a practical pathway towards enabling a global QKD connectivity once the QKD satellites are operational.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration will aim to reduce costs associated with quantum communication infrastructure, bridge a critical gap in the QKD service availability, and lower barriers for global deployment and adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum is an area of focus for SES, and the operator is also collaborating with a consortium of European partners on the EAGLE-1 project to enable early access to long-distance QKD for ultra-secure data transmissions. The project, which includes both satellite and ground infrastructure, is co-funded by ESA national contributions and the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur partnership with SES represents a significant step towards realizing commercially viable space-based QKD. It is important that we build on each other\u2019s expertise, to unlock synergies in this initial phase of enabling the interconnection of localized fiber-based quantum networks. By developing a shared OGS infrastructure, we are reducing costs and strengthening the foundation for a truly global quantum-secure network,\u201d Chune Yang Lum, CEO of SpeQtral, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES has made an interesting move when it comes to quantum-secure communications. It has teamed up with Singapore-based SpeQtral to develop an interoperable optical ground station (OGS) to establish long-distance satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD) between Asia and Europe. The two companies announced the MoU on March 28. Under the agreement, the development of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}