Aliro is at Quantum World Congress 2026 this week! We’re meeting with leaders in financial services, utilities, and telecom to talk about how to use entanglement to protect the most sensitive communications on their network. Join us September 23–25 at The Hotel at UMD in College Park, Maryland. Why Entanglement matters now: • AI acceleration and quantum progress are shrinking the security of math-based encryption and long-lived data. • Harvest Now Decrypt Later risks exposing high-value communications: data center interconnects and cloud links are the most targeted. • Organizations are asking for concrete roadmaps, not experiments. Visit us at Booth 14 and we'll show you how: - Simulation de-risks entanglement network design choices. - Orchestration is an end-to-end control plane for managing entanglement with traffic engineering and automation. • On-device software runs adaptive protocols across heterogeneous hardware. • A path from emulation to pilot to deployment for entanglement-based secure networking. Entanglement Networks are part of a cybersecurity roadmap that can protect your most sensitive communications today. • Near-term pilots that harden critical links without forklift upgrades. • PQC blended with entanglement-based security for defense-in-depth. • A simulation-first roadmap that shortens time-to-deployment and reduces risk. Meet us at #QWC2026 at Booth 14! #SecureNetworks #EntanglementNetworks #QuantumWorldCongress

Quantum networking won’t scale on hardware alone. In a presentation at IEEE Quantum Week, Aliro’s Cara Alexander, VP of Product, showed what scaling a quantum network looks like in practice: combining realistic physics modeling with network planning, abstracting heterogeneous quantum hardware, and orchestrating the resources and services required to operate an entanglement network. Sources, detectors, links, protocols, timing, synchronization, network topology, and application requirements all interact. The software layer transforms these quantum devices into a field-ready operational network, and ultimately into infrastructure that applications can use. As quantum networking moves to operational systems, advances in hardware will remain essential. But so will the ability to design, validate, orchestrate, and operate that hardware as one integrated network. #QuantumNetworking #EntanglementNetworks #SecureNetworks

What is Hyperentanglement? Entangled photons can be generated across multiple degrees of freedom, including polarization, spatial mode, angular momentum, time, and frequency. By creating entanglement across several dimensions simultaneously, we can achieve superior quantum capabilities using hyperentanglement! #EntanglementNetworks #QuantumNetworking

As quantum networking moves to real-world infrastructure, there's an important question coming up: how do you design, test, and validate network behavior before committing to physical deployment? At IEEE Quantum Week 2026, Brian Doolittle, PhD, Director of Engineering & Head of Simulation at Aliro, presented his talk, “Enterprise-scale Emulation of Quantum Secure Communications," getting right to the root of this question. Realistic simulation and emulation give engineers a way to model quantum network components, protocols, timing, noise, and performance at scale, helping bridge the gap between experimental systems and operational networks. At Aliro, this is exactly how we approach building entanglement-based networks: design and validate first, then operate with confidence. Thanks to IEEE Quantum Week for bringing together researchers and engineers working to make quantum networks practical at scale! #IEEEQuantumWeek #QuantumNetworking #EntanglementNetworks

In this video, Aliro’s experts share the creative analogies they’ve used to describe entanglement-based key generation. hubs.la/Q04tt5rL0 #EntanglementNetworks #SecureNetworks Timestamps for this video: 00:03 Supernatural twins: entanglement through storytelling 01:46 Entangled photons and matching random generation 02:17 Coin flip analogy for correlated outcomes 03:24 Polarized sunglasses to explain measurement basis Featuring: Cara Alexander, VP of Product at Aliro Geoff Mitchell, Software Engineer at Aliro Matthew Skrzypczyk, Software Engineer at Aliro Suparna Seshadri, Research Scientist at Aliro

Did you know we host webinars? Our team of experts choose topics that are timely and helpful to organizations exploring, building, and expanding their networks to include entanglement links. Join us for our next webinar to get your questions answered live, or check out our on-demand webinars: hubs.la/Q04tsTHm0 #EntanglementNetworks #SecureNetworks

How are entangled photons created? In this segment, we explore the processes used to generate entangled photons, focusing on two key methods: Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion and Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing. #EntanglementNetworks #SecureNetworks

Have you seen our YouTube channel? We post videos with insights and actionable advice for leveraging Entanglement for a wide range of network applications today with in-depth explanations of how they work. hubs.la/Q04wWl810 #SecureNetworks #EntanglementNetworks

Why do we care so much about entanglement? Because of the capabilities in sensing, security, and communications that it enables! hubs.la/Q04tsTZ80 #EntanglementNetworks #SecureNetworks

What is quantum sensing? Quantum sensing uses systems at the atomic scale to probe the natural world with unprecedented precision. Quantum sensors can be connected via entanglement to achieve measurements not possible with individual sensors alone! Timestamps for this video: 00:03 – Quantum sensing defined. 00:25 – Sensing process explained. #EntanglementNetworks #SecureNetworks

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What is fidelity, and why does it matter in a quantum network? Fidelity is a measure of how closely the quantum state you actually have matches the state you intended to create. In an entanglement-based network, fidelity becomes a measure of the quality of the entanglement being distributed. Noise, transmission distance, and environmental factors can degrade fidelity as qubits move through the network. Applications you run on a quantum network require entanglement above certain quality thresholds. A network can successfully distribute entangled pairs and still fail to deliver entanglement good enough for the application it's intended to support. Because of that , teams need continuous visibility into whether the network and its services are delivering the required performance. Aliro Orchestrator provides centralized visibility into nodes, links, system performance, service health, and live performance metrics over time, giving operators the information they need to understand how the network is actually performing. Check out our white paper on the basics of quantum networking: hubs.la/Q04sg5ZT0 #QuantumNetworking #SecureNetworks

Once quantum infrastructure moves beyond a lab setup, someone has to coordinate devices, provision services, monitor performance, diagnose failures, manage users, and translate application requirements into network behavior. The complexity of all these tasks grows quickly when devices come from different vendors. That's why Aliro Orchestrator exists: to provide centralized visibility, service management, resource coordination, and automation across the network. An operational software layer helps turn quantum capabilities into infrastructure people can actually use. Get the details here: hubs.la/Q04sfYCJ0 #QuantumNetworking #SecureNetworks

Aliro used our own software to design BrightNet, our in-house entanglement-based Quantum Secure Communications network located at our Boston HQ. Before emitting a single photon, we modeled the network in Aliro Simulator. Hardware configurations, fiber, noise, photon loss, protocol behavior, topology, and real-world component imperfections were all part of the simulation to help us select the right hardware and optimize for our specific situation. Aliro Simulator predicted how a range of factors would affect outcomes including coincidence rate, QBER, and secure key rate. We were able to evaluate how the complete BBM92 workflow would behave before physical deployment. Find out exactly how Aliro Simulator was used to design and build BrightNet: hubs.la/Q04sf-390 #QuantumNetworking #SecureNetworks

Producing quantum-secure key material is only useful if your existing network can use it. BBM92 can generate shared keys and detect interference on the quantum channel. The next challenge is integration: delivering those keys into the IPsec, MACsec, routers, switches, VPNs, and encryptors organizations already operate. The bridge between those worlds is what Aliro is providing. AlirOS® can provide quantum-generated symmetric keys to existing infrastructure, including integration through Cisco SKIP. Our goal is to give existing security applications access to a new source of key material. Quantum readiness does not need to begin with rip-and-replace. Instead, start by identifying your highest-value links and determining how stronger key-generation methods can complement the infrastructure already protecting them. Learn how Aliro approaches operational QSC: hubs.la/Q04sg1bn0 #QuantumNetworking #SecureNetworks

Every component of the network looks excellent on a data sheet. But will it work in your quantum network design? Loss, noise, timing, decoherence, component characteristics, topology, protocols, and environmental conditions all interact at the network level. Optimizing each component independently doesn't guarantee the resulting system will meet your application's requirements. Aliro Simulator is designed to address this exact issue. Teams can model physical and optical behavior, compare hardware configurations and vendors, evaluate rates, fidelity and latency, test protocols, and explore network architectures before committing to deployment. Check out our Simulation Wizard to see what kind of information Aliro Simulator can provide. hubs.la/Q04sflc80 #QuantumNetworking #SecureNetworks

Building a quantum network does NOT require rebuilding the whole network from the ground up! Your organization already relies on technologies such as MACsec, IPsec, TLS, routers, switches, firewalls, and encryptors. Entanglement-based Quantum Secure Communications changes a different part of the architecture: how symmetric key material is generated and delivered. The quantum network can operate on the same fiber and run alongside your classical network, generating keys using entangled photons and delivering those keys to existing networking equipment through standard interfaces. Instead of “When can we replace our infrastructure with a quantum network?” the question becomes, “Which high-value links should receive an additional physics-based security layer first?” Quantum readiness can start with infrastructure you already operate. Check out our blog to find out how: hubs.la/Q04sdQdF0 #QuantumNetworking #SecureNetworks

This is what it looks like when quantum networking leaves the lab! Aliro is putting field-ready, entanglement-based quantum key distribution to work on ABQ-Net, New Mexico’s open-access quantum network testbed. This isn’t a fiber spool sitting on a lab bench. ABQ-Net runs across 50 kilometers of leased ISP fiber, including aerial fiber exposed to real environmental conditions. Aliro’s software, AlirOS, uses the BBM92 protocol to coordinate quantum key generation with Qunnect hardware, so a router can request quantum-generated key material as its needed. W think this is the part of quantum networking that deserves a lot more attention: making quantum hardware, software, fiber infrastructure, and classical networking equipment work together as an operational system. For banks, telecoms, utilities, and government organizations evaluating physics-based security, this is where the conversation gets practical. Read the full BankInfoSecurity feature here: hubs.la/Q04sfZ3Q0 #QuantumNetworking #QuantumSecurity

Is your VPN ready for the quantum era? For decades, IPsec has been the foundation of secure communications across enterprise and government networks. But the emergence of quantum computing is forcing organizations to rethink how encryption keys are generated, exchanged, and protected. In this blog, Aliro Fellow Bruno Rijsman explores the evolving IPsec standards that enable integration with both Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and entanglement-based quantum networking technologies: >> How IPsec is evolving to address quantum threats >> The role of PQC in future VPN deployments >>  How entanglement-based quantum networking can strengthen key exchange and data protection >> Why organizations should begin planning their quantum-safe networking strategy today Read the blog: hubs.la/Q04lTPyF0 #QuantumNetworking #SecureNetworks

There are 4 layers to a satellite QKD mission. The software-centric layers are the Quantum Network Layer and the Quantum Protocol Layer. The hardware-centric layers are the Quantum Photonic Connection Layer and the Quantum Photonic Component Layer. This video defines what these layers do and their significance to quantum satellites: hubs.la/Q04lTKMd0 #QuantumNetworking #SecureNetworks