The FranceQCI project, co-funded by the European Union, lays the foundations of a future French quantum communications infrastructure (QCI), as part of a future EuroQCI, with an interface to existing terrestrial communication networks.
This is to protect against threats from overpowered quantum computers able to break the classical asymmetric encryption.
FranceQCI brings together Orange (pilot), Thalès, Airbus, start-ups, research laboratories and DSNA (french Air Navigation) as an institutional end user.
DSNA thus participated in an exercise in 2025 in its innovation premises in Toulouse (Technical Department, DTI), with its use-case and its needs that are different from those of the banking or defense sector.
