{"id":238118,"date":"2026-06-01T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-quantum-internet-explained"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:04:47","slug":"the-quantum-internet-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-quantum-internet-explained","title":{"rendered":"The quantum internet, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-quantum-internet-explained.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quantum internet is a network of quantum computers that will someday send, compute, and receive information encoded in quantum states. The quantum internet will not replace the modern or \u201cclassical\u201d internet; instead, it will provide new functionalities such as quantum cryptography and quantum cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>While the full implications of the quantum internet won\u2019t be known for some time, several applications have been theorized and some, like quantum key distribution, are already in use.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear when a full-scale global quantum internet will be deployed, but researchers estimate that interstate quantum networks will be established within the United States in the next 10 to 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quantum internet is a network of quantum computers that will someday send, compute, and receive information encoded in quantum states. The quantum internet will not replace the modern or \u201cclassical\u201d internet; instead, it will provide new functionalities such as quantum cryptography and quantum cloud computing. While the full implications of the quantum internet won\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}