The report confirms that growth is being driven across multiple application spaces and markets by simultaneous increases in users, access methodologies, access rates and services (such as video on demand and social media).
While some hedge funds are long-only and others are long-short, OpenGamma has developed software for very quant-driven funds whose strategies use the application of risk to drive their returns, added Wylie.
This combination of assured single-photon emission at high rates driven by power no different from a battery, Dr Hoefling said, brings QKD much closer to commercial application.