2025: The Year Vegacomp Launched Its Quantum Communications Business Unit
2025 marks a strategic milestone for Vegacomp: the official launch of our new Business Unit dedicated to Quantum Communications.
This step is not accidental, it is the result of a multi-year journey of learning, exploration, ecosystem building, and alignment with global technological trends.
A global context: Quantum becomes real technology
The timing could not be more relevant.
UNESCO declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), marking 100 years since the foundations of quantum mechanics were laid. This global initiative highlights the transition of quantum theory from academic research into real-world technologies shaping communications, security, and computing.
🔗 https://quantum2025.org/
In the same year, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their pioneering work on macroscopic quantum phenomena in electrical circuits. Their research proved that quantum effects—such as tunneling and energy quantization—can be engineered in systems large enough to be observed and deployed.
🔗 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/press-release/
For Quantum Communications, these advances are critical. One concrete example is superconductivity, which now enables Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) systems to extend Quantum secure fiber-optic links from the traditional ~100 km to distances of up to 350 km. Quantum security is no longer theoreticality is deployable.
Where it started: Singapore, June 2024
Vegacomp’s quantum journey began in June 2024 in Singapore, during Asia Tech x Singapore, one of the largest technology fairs in Asia. 🔗 https://asiatechxsg.com/
As part of the Romania Pavilion, alongside seven other Romanian SMEs, I had the opportunity to explore the global quantum ecosystem. A defining moment was discovering Toshiba Europe’s QKD solution—a compact 1U rack-mounted device designed for deployment in data centers to enable quantum-secure fiber networks.
Interestingly, this coincided with Singapore launching its National Quantum Strategy, reinforcing the sense that quantum communications were moving decisively into implementation.
This participation was made possible thanks to:
- ARICE – Romanian Agency for Investment and Foreign Trade
🔗 https://arice.gov.ro/1/ - ATIC – Association for ITC of Romania
🔗 https://www.atic.org.ro/
Becoming part of the European Quantum ecosystem: QuIC
On 11 April 2025, Vegacomp Consulting became a Full Member of QuIC – the European Quantum Industry Consortium.
🔗 https://www.quantumconsortium.eu/https://www.euroquic.org/about-quic/
QuIC currently brings together 210 members, structured as:
- 59% SMEs
- 16% large companies
- 21% academia and RTOs
Vegacomp is one of 96 SMEs with Full Membership, actively contributing to the Quantum Communications Working Group. Participation in three working group meetings in 2025 confirmed the value of being embedded in a European-level quantum ecosystem—where standards, architectures, and deployment strategies are shaped collaboratively.
QuIC will celebrate its 5th anniversary in 2026, and Vegacomp is proud to be part of this formative phase.
Key milestones in 2025
Throughout 2025, Vegacomp has been actively engaged across industry, standards, education, and ecosystem-building:
- April 28–30 – QCI Days, Athens https://qci-days.eu/
- June 18–20 – RoNaQCI Festival, Bucharest
🔗 https://www.ronaqci.upb.ro/workshop-2025-bucharest-june-18-20/ - June 24–27 – World of Quantum 2025, Munich
🔗 https://world-of-quantum.com/en/ - June, ASRO (Romanian Standardization Association) – Active participation as member in JTC22 / WG4 – Quantum Communications (CT 401 – Romania)
Investing in education and future talent
Quantum Communications is not only about technology—it is also about people.
Between 22 August and 5 September 2025, during the 8th edition of the Science and Technology Summer Camp in Măgurele, Vegacomp contributed to the first quantum-themed project of the camp. Together with other 3 coordinators, we mentored four high-school students in developing QUBIC – Quantum Communication Business Innovation Center.
The students designed a Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) concept, combining hardware ideas with service models—an encouraging sign for the next generation.
On 30 September 2025, we officially launched the Quantum Communications Club at Gheorghe Airinei VET High School in Bucharest—the first quantum-focused club for vocational/high-school education in Romania.
Between October and November 2025, this was followed by the training of 12 high-school teachers, forming the foundation for sustainable quantum education at pre-university level.
Vegacomp Quantum Communications Services
As part of this new Business Unit, Vegacomp offers end-to-end services that bridge education, infrastructure, and cyber-resilience:
- Educational kits for Quantum Communications
Hands-on learning kits designed for high schools, universities, and training centers, supporting practical understanding of quantum principles applied to communications. - QKD equipment for quantum-secure links
Deployment and integration of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) solutions over:- fiber-optic networks
- Free Space Optical (FSO) links
enabling ultra-secure communication infrastructures.
- Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
Support for transitioning existing networks and systems to quantum-resistant cryptography, in partnership with Black Bullet, https://www.blackbullet.ro/en/ ensuring long-term security against future quantum threats.
Continuous learning
On a personal level, 2025 also meant deepening theoretical understanding.
Between May and September, I completed the 9-week Stanford University course “Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers”, taught by Prof. David A. B. Miller, via edX.
🔗 https://www.edx.org/learn/quantum-physics-mechanics/stanford-university-quantum-mechanics-for-scientists-and-engineers-1
This course reinforced the bridge between theory and engineering practice—essential for anyone working at the intersection of telecom and quantum technologies.
Looking ahead
The launch of the Quantum Communications Business Unit positions Vegacomp at the intersection of:
- fiber-optic infrastructure,
- cybersecurity,
- quantum-safe networks,
- education and workforce development.
Quantum Communications is no longer a distant future. It is becoming part of critical infrastructure—and Vegacomp is committed to contributing responsibly, technically, and educationally to this transition.
The quantum journey has started, and it expands the Fiber Optic Connectivity and future communications.
