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Toshiba launches Quantum-Safe Networking Platform combining QKD, PQC and QRNG

The Wire · November 4, 2026 · via IT Brief Asia

Toshiba has launched its Quantum-Safe Networking Platform, which combines hardware and software for network operators, data centre providers, enterprises and public-sector bodies. It supports Post-Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Random Number Generation, and is designed to work with existing infrastructure, scaling from a single link to metro, hub-and-spoke, ring, mesh and long-distance networks. Toshiba says a single hub can serve hundreds of remote sites and that its multiplexer lets quantum channels share existing lit fibre with third-party DWDM traffic instead of requiring dedicated dark fibre. The range includes transceivers, optically switched hubs, compact spoke endpoints, point-to-point QKD links, and software for key delivery, key management and centralised control.

Why it mattersOrganisations are under growing pressure from governments, regulators and standards bodies to move critical systems toward quantum-safe security, partly because of harvest now, decrypt later attacks, in which encrypted data is collected today for later decryption. Toshiba says trials and deployments have shown the technology can protect important links, and that wider rollout across more sites and network types is the next challenge.

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