Podcast with Tom Darras, CEO and Co-founder, Welinq
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Tom Darras, CEO of Welinq, discusses quantum networking, which uses shared entanglement to interconnect quantum processors, enabling modular scale-out clusters and quantum-safe connectivity. He explains technical building blocks, including qubit-photon interfaces and quantum memories, and performance metrics like entanglement generation rate. Welinq's Arachne compiler distributes circuits across multiple QPUs, and "quantum-augmented data centers" are becoming real initiatives, with networking a key scaling strategy across modalities, enabling secure communication and large-scale qubit deployment.