--- title: Lumen Announces AI Networking, Quantum Research and PQC... description: Lumen Technologies announced three initiatives spanning AI networking, quantum research and post-quantum security. With Emerald AI, Lumen is exploring a pilot... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/lumen-announces-ai-networking-quantum-research-and-pqc-plans-a7l7dfvut twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Lumen Announces AI Networking, Quantum Research and PQC Plans | daily.dev og:description: Lumen Technologies announced three initiatives spanning AI networking, quantum research and post-quantum security. With Emerald AI, Lumen is exploring a pilot... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/lumen-announces-ai-networking-quantum-research-and-pqc-plans-a7l7dfvut og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/a7l7DFvUt.png og:image:alt: Lumen Announces AI Networking, Quantum Research and PQC Plans og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Lumen Announces AI Networking, Quantum Research and PQC Plans **[The Quantum Insider](https://daily.dev/sources/thequantuminsider)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Lumen Technologies announced three initiatives spanning AI networking, quantum research and post-quantum security. With Emerald AI, Lumen is exploring a pilot to route AI inference workloads to locations based on power availability, cost, latency and security. Lumen is also funding quantum networking and distributed sensing research at The Ohio State University, using deployed optical fiber. Separately, Lumen plans to add Fortinet post-quantum cryptography to its SASE solution, with initial availability in November 2026 and general availability in January 2027. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### When will Lumen add post-quantum cryptography to its SASE solution? Lumen plans initial availability of Fortinet post-quantum cryptography (PQC) capabilities in its SASE solution in November 2026, with general availability planned for January 2027. The PQC capabilities come from FortiOS, and Lumen's SASE solution is built on FortiGate technology. The goal is to protect enterprise communications against 'harvest now, decrypt later' risks from future quantum computers. _Track rollout timelines like this one for post-quantum security on daily.dev as enterprises plan PQC migrations._ ### How is Lumen using AI to make network routing energy-aware? Lumen is partnering with Emerald AI to explore a pilot that automatically routes AI inference workloads to locations based on power availability, cost, latency, security and network performance. This combines Emerald AI's Emerald Conductor platform with Lumen's programmable fiber network, extending Emerald AI's power-aware technology beyond the data center into network routing itself. _Developers weighing AI infrastructure costs can follow energy-aware routing efforts like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [IQM Plans Logical-Qubit System for Finland’s LUMI AI Factory](https://daily.dev/posts/iqm-plans-logical-qubit-system-for-finland-s-lumi-ai-factory-dlqnwrss4) · The Quantum Insider · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [IQM to Deliver Quantum Computer for Europe’s LUMI AI Factory](https://daily.dev/posts/iqm-to-deliver-quantum-computer-for-europe-s-lumi-ai-factory-gv52cplgb) · The Quantum Insider · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building quantum-safe telecom infrastructure for 5G and beyond](https://daily.dev/posts/building-quantum-safe-telecom-infrastructure-for-5g-and-beyond-y67nlprr3) · Ubuntu · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#quantum-computing](https://daily.dev/tags/quantum-computing), [#ai-infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-infrastructure), [#fortinet](https://daily.dev/tags/fortinet) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/lumen-announces-ai-networking-quantum-research-and-pqc-plans-a7l7dfvut) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Lumen Announces AI Networking, Quantum Research and PQC Plans","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/lumen-announces-ai-networking-quantum-research-and-pqc-plans-a7l7dfvut","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/lumen-announces-ai-networking-quantum-research-and-pqc-plans-a7l7dfvut"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T16:12:58.776Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T16:13:28.015Z","description":"Lumen Technologies announced three initiatives spanning AI networking, quantum research and post-quantum security. 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