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by jacquesm 1760 days ago
I don't see how the third follows from the second, wouldn't a Quantum internet that spans the globe always require point-to-point physical links between any two parties that want to trust each other?
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"point-to-point" links can be circuit-switched at least, so you don't need an actual full mesh.
Why would it need to be end-point to end-point? Just have routers continuously build up entanglement with their neighbors, do entanglement swapping along packet-switched paths, and then use the entanglement to teleport via the classical internet.