Networking and Interconnects Reports
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Entangled Networks: Enabling Technologies and Future Markets
Published September 2026
A New Market Is Taking Shape
Today’s commercial entangled-network market is centered on entangled-photon sources, single-photon detectors, precision timing and stabilization systems, network-control software, and prototype networking equipment. But this is only the starting point.Unlike reports that treat the quantum internet as a distant scientific vision, CIR examines the technologies and applications that are already turning entanglement-based networking into a genuine business opportunity.
The report analyzes critical enabling technologies—including quantum repeaters, quantum memories, entangled-photon sources, detectors, transducers, control systems, and networking software—and assesses how their development will shape the market over the coming decade.
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Co-Packaged Optics in the AI Data Center: A Ten-Year Market and Technology Forecast
Published January 2026
This report explores the future of co-packaged optics (CPO) and related technologies as an interconnect technology for AI data centers. It includes granular forecasts of CPO shipments taking into consideration realistic time frames for the commercial development of CPO. The forecasts are broken out in various ways including, data rate, standards/technology location in the network (data center interconnect, intra-rack and inter-rack). There are also strategic profiles of approximately 30 major influencer firms developing CPO products. Finally, the report devotes significant space to how end-users will optimally deploy CPO for AI in the next ten years both in the immediate future and how this will change as products and standards change.
