Re: QC Hype Watch: Quantum cryptography gets practical

[Dave Howe]

R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Two factors have made this possible: the
vast stretches of optical fiber (lit and dark) laid in metropolitan areas,
which very conveniently was laid from one of your customers to another 
of your customers (not between telcos?) - or are they talking only 
having to lay new links for the "last mile" and splicing in one of the 
existing dark fibres (presumably ones without any repeaters on it)