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Put quantum networks to work today, no quantum computer required.

Quantum networks are a versatile technology with wide-ranging capabilities:

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Quantum Secure Communications (QSC)

Distribute cryptographic key material using the laws of physics to make eavesdropping detectable, delivering information-theoretic security.

  • End-to-End Secure Communication: Replacing legacy encryption such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and ECC with physics-based security will keep your most critical communications protected.

  • Built-In Eavesdropper Detection: QSC doesn’t just encrypt data—it instantly detects any attempt to intercept your data, ensuring your privacy stays intact.

  • Combat "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" Threats: Defend against adversaries stockpiling data for future decryption with proactive, quantum-secure measures.

  • Hard-ware Agnostic: QSC offers a hardware-agnostic solution that protects communications while simultaneously enabling other use cases like distributed quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing.

  • Aliro’s solutions integrate quantum networks into existing networks, making the transition smoother and more cost-effective, with no forklift upgrades. 

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Quantum Position Verification (QPV)

Prove that a party is physically located where they claim to be, a capability classical systems cannot provide. A genuinely new cryptographic primitive, this position-based cryptography has implications for authentication and beyond.

  • Defend against GPS spoofing and location fraud by verifying that military assets, operators, and commands originate from the claimed place and time.

  • Protect critical infrastructure by ensuring sensitive commands are accepted only from authorized on-site terminals, not from spoofed or remotely impersonated endpoints.

  • Strengthen financial trust and compliance by validating that high-value transactions and trades originate from approved, licensed locations.

  • Secure government and diplomatic communications with verification tied to a trusted location and precise moment in time.

  • Enhance Quantum Secure Communications by authenticating the classical channel through endpoint location verification, reducing reliance on pre-shared keys.

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Networked Quantum Sensors

Synchronize quantum sensors across distances to amplify their measurements, enabling more precision in navigation, timing, imaging, and environmental monitoring.

  • The Next PNT Revolution: Networked atomic clocks will redefine global positioning, navigation, and timing standards, enabling pinpoint navigation in GPS-denied environments.

  • Seeing Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Prepare to upgrade current telescope arrays with entanglement-assisted long-baseline interferometry, enabling sharper images and more detailed measurements without requiring entirely new hardware.

  • Multi-Sensor Synergy: Entanglement-based quantum networks can enhance quantum sensor precision across locations and types of sensors, paving the way for integrating magnetic, optical, and gravitational wave sensors into a single quantum-enhanced network with cross-disciplinary applications.

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Networked Quantum Processors

Link individual quantum processing units (QPUs) into a unified, distributed computing architecture.

  • Scaling Quantum Computers: Networked Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) break the scalability barriers of single-chip monolithic quantum processors. QPU networks are the backbone of fault-tolerant quantum computers and next-generation data centers.

  • Quantum Computation Across Modalities: Interconnecting diverse modalities, such as superconducting QPUs and photonic QPUs, enables scalable quantum computation via entanglement-based quantum networking.

  • Powerful Hybrid Systems: Leverage QPU networks alongside classical computation for time-to-solution advantages that reduces energy consumption.

Quantum Network Simulation

Aliro for Researchers

Test protocol behavior, hardware assumptions, and end-to-end network dynamics with greater precision.

Aliro software helps researchers design, simulate, and validate quantum networks with greater speed and confidence. Instead of relying solely on costly, time-intensive hardware experiments, teams can model realistic network behavior, test protocols, evaluate hardware assumptions, and optimize performance before deployment.

From early-stage concept development to full-network experimentation, Aliro gives research teams the tools to move faster. Researchers can explore system tradeoffs, connect device-level innovation to network-level outcomes, and scale from local simulations to larger test environments as their work evolves.

Whether the goal is entanglement-based secure communications, distributed quantum computing, or quantum sensor networking, Aliro helps researchers reduce risk, accelerate iteration, and turn ideas into working quantum network designs.

Networking Quantum Computers & Sensors

Aliro for Test Beds

Connect devices, expose standardized interfaces, and manage testbed operations at system level.

Aliro software helps test bed owners turn complex quantum networking environments into manageable, scalable systems. Connect devices, expose standardized interfaces, and manage testbed operations at the system level with software designed to support real-world deployment workflows.

With Aliro, operators can view everything, control everything, and automate network operations through a unified orchestration layer. That means less manual coordination across devices, better visibility into performance, and a more structured way to run experiments, demonstrations, and multi-user testbed programs.

Aliro also helps test bed owners integrate multi-vendor hardware, monitor and configure devices, schedule and run network operations, and make the testbed available as a service or shared resource in a safe, organized way.

Whether you are building a lab environment, a pilot network, or a long-term quantum networking platform, Aliro helps you reduce operational complexity and get more value from your infrastructure.

Quantum Secure Communications (QSC).

Aliro for Enterprise Teams

Identify high-value use cases, improve cost efficiency, and create a roadmap grounded in operational and financial ROI.
Aliro helps enterprise teams move from quantum interest to execution. Identify high-value use cases, improve cost efficiency, and build a roadmap grounded in operational and financial ROI with software designed to simulate, validate, deploy, and operate entanglement-based quantum networks.

With Aliro, teams can adopt quantum networking without ripping out existing infrastructure. AlirOS is built to abstract device complexity, expose standards-based management interfaces, and integrate with enterprise-ready orchestration tools, helping organizations turn quantum hardware into dependable, consumable services.

Aliro also gives enterprise operators the visibility and control they expect. Through centralized management, monitoring, and orchestration, network teams can provision new quantum-secure links, automate operations, and monitor performance through workflows that fit more naturally into existing enterprise environments.

Whether the priority is quantum-secure communications, secure access to clouds and data centers, or a longer-term foundation for quantum-enabled services, Aliro helps enterprise teams reduce risk, accelerate adoption, and build with confidence.

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