EPB and Qubitekk’s Quantum community embarking on know-how’s subsequent frontier

If EPB and Qubitekk prevail of their mission, they might position Chattanooga at the forefront quantum technology -- a innovative container poised to resolve problems beyond the attain of existing techniques.

It wouldn't be the primary time Chattanooga has led the style.

In 2010, EPB, Chattanooga's municipal utility company, accomplished a one hundred% fiber optic network attainable to all customers as the basis for launching the usa's first community-large gig-velocity web. In 2022, the enterprise based the nation's first commercially available quantum network -- EPB Quantum network powered via Qubitekk -- with a aim of expanding commercialization and growing local job opportunities.

In December of 2023, EPB's Quantum community on boarded its first two shoppers -- a brand new York-based mostly quantum hardware enterprise referred to as Qunnect, and the tuition of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC).