In a significant stride toward the future of quantum computing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) conducted a test run of its Automatic Polarization Compensation (APC) technology on EPB Quantum Network’s commercial platform. The groundbreaking event, driven by ORNL’s collaboration with EPB and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), inaugurates a new phase in the application of quantum technologies outside of a pure research setting. As reported by ORNL, this move is to thoroughly test and potentially validate the commercial potential of such technologies.