Aliro Quantum

Aliro Quantum is a Boston-area quantum networking company developing software platforms for building and managing quantum communication networks — including architectures that incorporate satellite relay nodes for global-scale quantum-secure links. The company's core product is a software stack for quantum network planning, simulation, and control: managing entanglement distribution (the process of creating and routing quantum-entangled photon pairs between network nodes), optimizing quantum channel performance, and integrating heterogeneous network hardware from different vendors. Entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD) is theoretically information-theoretically secure — any eavesdropping disturbs the quantum state in a detectable way. Terrestrial fiber limits quantum links to roughly 500 km due to photon absorption, but satellite relay nodes (like China's Micius, which demonstrated entanglement distribution over 1,200 km in 2017) can extend quantum-secure links globally. Aliro's software layer could manage a hybrid ground-fiber-and-satellite quantum internet, routing secure keys and quantum states through the optimal combination of fiber segments and satellite passes. The company has received DARPA and US Department of Defense quantum networking funding and works within the broader US National Quantum Initiative ecosystem building toward a future quantum internet.