Cisco has announced a new quantum networking collaboration with Nu Quantum, a UK startup. The partnership with Nu Quantum, based in Cambridge, will see Cisco become a prospective end-user for “Lyra,” a project that aims to deliver the world’s first “Quantum Networking Unit” (QNU.) Funded by a UK government contract valued at £2.3m, the goal is to build a network capable of connecting disparate quantum processing units (QPUs) and massively scale the number of qubits available to researchers and private companies.