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Sep 10, 2026
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Friday, September 11th, this is the The Asahi Shimbun Asia and Japan Watch news briefing.
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NTT, University of Tokyo spinoff to market optical quantum computer.
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The age of the commercial quantum computer is a step closer after NTT Incorporated and a University of Tokyo spinoff said they aim to bring an optical quantum device to market by fiscal 2030.
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On August 3rd, NTT and OptQC Corporation announced a deal under which NTT will provide funding for the project.
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"We will push optical quantum computing technology from Japan to the world and thereby contribute to the creation of new value," NTT President Akira Shimada said in a statement.
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A quantum computer uses subatomic quantum mechanics instead of electrical semiconductors to store and process data.
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It can solve problems at a significantly higher speed, orders of magnitude faster than a silicon-based device.
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For this reason, quantum computing technology is expected to offer powerful new tools for human development.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
They were eventually bought.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
They're part of NTT now, but they were basically an MSP.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
And they were running a Junos backbone, basically.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
It was actually kind of wild because they were actually running a Junos backbone, like an MPLS backbone between Juniper routers that was built over GRE tunnels because they didn't actually have a backbone.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
They were eventually bought.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
They're part of NTT now, but they were basically an MSP.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
And they were running a Junos backbone, basically.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
It was actually kind of wild because they were actually running a Junos backbone, like an MPLS backbone between Juniper routers that was built over GRE tunnels because they didn't actually have a backbone.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
They were eventually bought.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
They're part of NTT now, but they were basically an MSP.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
And they were running a Junos backbone, basically.
Chris GrundemannGUEST
It was actually kind of wild because they were actually running a Junos backbone, like an MPLS backbone between Juniper routers that was built over GRE tunnels because they didn't actually have a backbone.
Àlex Rodríguez BacarditHOST
So one of the largest, perhaps the largest Spanish consultancy, and it was already a big corporation with thousands of employees.
Àlex Rodríguez BacarditHOST
They had been acquired by this super large group, NTT.
Àlex Rodríguez BacarditHOST
But Avery, Back in the day, they approached us because they needed some experts in Angular as well.
Àlex Rodríguez BacarditHOST
And so what they did with us is they said like, look, we have this urgency.
Àlex Rodríguez BacarditHOST
We showed that we could do the project, no problem.
Àlex Rodríguez BacarditHOST
And we proofed.
Àlex Rodríguez BacarditHOST
that these expertise is know-how through meetings with chavi and our technical leaders in the company and whatnot so turns out we did a procurement process but it was it was pretty short uh it was it was really fast because they did it through a subsidiary of the company and uh we started working and after we started working maybe it was like a year after we completed the entire procurement process for the entire group so we would be eligible to work for entity group as a whole, but that happened as a preposterous thing of starting the project.
Àlex Rodríguez BacarditHOST
And that's what can happen.
Maria VarmazisHOST
And to go into this discussion, I'm joined by none other than the host of the CyberWire Daily, Dave Bittner, and longtime friend of the show, Brandon Karpf.
Maria VarmazisHOST
He is the leader of public-private partnerships at NTT.
Maria VarmazisHOST
Here's our conversation.
Dave BittnerHOST
[upbeat music] It is always my pleasure to get the gang back together here, which is what we've done here today.
Maria VarmazisHOST
That's right.
Dave BittnerHOST
That's right.
Dave BittnerHOST
And that other voice you hear is, of course, Brandon Karpf, who is the leader of international public-private partnerships at NTT and our former N2K CyberWire colleague here.
Dave BittnerHOST
Brandon, welcome back.
Steven DwyerGUEST
It's like tons of other stuff.
Steven DwyerGUEST
So their company, NTT, they do a lot of their telecom stuff, but they also have a research division.
Steven DwyerGUEST
And here's another proto thing that I got involved in.
Steven DwyerGUEST
The research division was working on natural language processing and speech recognition, basically.
Steven DwyerGUEST
This was long before your series and all of that kind of stuff, right? Another nascent thing that they were just trying to figure out, like the...
Steven DwyerGUEST
the recording and tokenization of the phonetics was still separate, completely separate from the actual natural language part processing, right? And so they had two research divisions at NTT, and one of them was the tokenization, the other one was the language processing.
Steven DwyerGUEST
And so I ended up in the tokenization one.
Steven DwyerGUEST
So I accepted that because, hey, who wouldn't want to go out to Japan on someone else's dime for a year, right? And I just had one of the...
Curt HolcombGUEST
Okay.
Curt HolcombGUEST
And NTT had bought Vario.
Curt HolcombGUEST
Okay.
Curt HolcombGUEST
And so we had, you know, like 165 Halsey street in Newark.
RedaHOST
And you know what, Russell? I think I'm more comfortable lending Google than I am lending the US government at the moment.
RussellGUEST
I remember at the time going on there when I was looking at, you know, you could get a bigger, if you go back 25 years in Japan, you could look at a bond from either Toyota or NTT, you know, the telco name yielded sort of more than the JG, you know, the government bond.
RussellGUEST
It was like, and it was a better credit.
RussellGUEST
Yeah.
Marc PoratGUEST
At the CEO level, we brought in AT&T.
Marc PoratGUEST
NTT, France Telecom, Cable & Wireless.
Pablos HolmanHOST
I mean, I would think all of that would completely kill a startup.
Pablos HolmanHOST
Yeah, it did.
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