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IEQNET employs classical networking technology and transparent optical switches to implement network functions, such as establishing lightpaths — a lightpath is a path between two nodes in the network in which light passes through unmodified — between quantum nodes via routing and approaches used in transparent optical networks. IEQNET deploys transparent optical switches at Fermilab, Argonne and Starlight. StarLight is an internet exchange point on Northwestern’s Chicago campus. Quantum nodes are deployed at all three locations; Fermilab has multiple nodes at two locations separated by ~2.5 km. A fiber optical connection about 150 kilometers long runs from Fermilab to Argonne to StarLight and to Northwestern’s Evanston campus. Image: IEQNET