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ABQ-Net is enabling new technologies in security and communications, but could it also advance earth science? You bet. Tensora builds geosensing technologies that detect subtle geological changes — the kind that matter for keeping homes, dams, and coastlines safe as the ground beneath them shifts. As one of four inaugural users of ABQ-Net, the country's first open-access entanglement-based quantum network, they're using data collected on the network to advance methods that turn buried fiber into a continuous sensor of the earth around it. What would earlier detection change for the infrastructure you protect?

ISMG covered Aliro's quantum secure communications running on ABQ-Net. Encryption keys come from entangled particles instead of math-based algorithms or legacy QKD methods. The solution also features real-time eavesdropper detection: if someone tries to intercept the key, the theft immediately reveals itself and Aliro software detects it. It's running today on real fiber strung between telephone poles in Albuquerque, not in a lab. What would you protect first with security that catches its own theft? David Perera and Tiffany Wang for Information Security Media Group (ISMG) 👇

Four companies. One network. A pillar within the $450+ million state strategy to build a quantum ecosystem. And its working. Infleqtion, Aliro, Tensora, and Bandelier Technologies are now running defense-grade timing, key generation, geo-sensing, and AI-hardened security workloads on New Mexico's ABQ-Net, the only open-access quantum network in America — live on metro fiber in Albuquerque today. Quantum Computing Report calls ABQ-Net a core pillar of New Mexico's broader quantum strategy, anchored by Qunnect's Carina system and built with the New Mexico Economic Development Department Technology and Innovation Office under a contract with Roadrunner Venture Studios. What would you build if your state's biggest quantum bet ran through infrastructure you could test on today? Quantum Computing Report by GQI👇

One working system doesn't build an industry. A thousand identical ones do. Qunnect's hardware already runs entangled photons through live commercial fiber in four cities, on two continents, no exotic buildouts required. We've proved Carina works in the field. Here's what comes next: scaling it, with Monarch Quantum, into hardware built for satellites, defense platforms, and remote infrastructure. What would it take for your industry's next breakthrough to go from one working unit to a thousand? Quantum Zeitgeist 👇

Noise-canceling headphones calculate incoming outside noise and cancel it in real time to make what's left clearer. Qunnect's Carina system runs the same trick on quantum signals, analyzing polarization drift from temperature shifts and vibration in real-world fiber, then correcting for it continuously without cooling requirements—ensuring quantum networking can deploy and work outside a lab environment. Carina works in the real world today supporting deployments at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Deutsche Telekom, and Montana State University-Bozeman, with GothamQ and ABQ-Net distributing entangled photons across deployed fiber supporting new use cases and development. DARPA just awarded Qunnect a contract to advance that exact technology, funding the next generation of the polarization compensation module running in Maryland, Berlin, Montana, New York, and Albuquerque. What would you build on the next generation of quantum infrastructure? Quantum Computing Report by GQI 👇

What makes our modern technology tick? Precision timing and synchronization enable today's technology to run reliably. By aligning optical atomic clocks across devices around the world to within the pico-second, systems can safely coordinate high-speed data, enable network security, and accurately log critical events. We're proud that Infleqtion is using ABQ-Net to advance the use of quantum networks to enhance highly precise timing and synchronization. New Mexico's ABQ-Net is the first open-access entanglement-based quantum network in America, running on live fiber today.

Quantum networking worked in the lab for decades. But real-world fiber is noisy, chaotic, and unpredictable, and it degrades quantum signals every time. Qunnect built hardware specifically to solve that fiber problem with Carina's polarization compensation system, which continuously corrects for real-world conditions. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) showed this year that Carina preserves quantum signals across some of the most demanding urban infrastructure in the world. And now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just awarded Qunnect new funding to advance the next generation of that same system. Qunnect has focused on not only advancing the science behind quantum networking but also developing the technologies needed to make it useful at scale. Alexandra Kelley at Nextgov/FCW has the story 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTpX-7rX

What new capabilities are unlocked when high-quality, narrow bandwidth entangled photons can be broadcast from a satellite, a drone, or a remote sensor instead of a data center rack? We're working with Monarch Quantum, combining their manufacturing and miniaturization expertise with our Carina system, the hardware that anchors the largest entanglement-based quantum networks in the world. Distributing entanglement onto live fiber was one milestone. Moving from data centers to satellites is the next one. What would you deploy if the quantum hardware could go anywhere?

Companies go where the infrastructure exists. The bigger story behind our ABQ-Net work is that Aliro, Infleqtion, Tensora, and Bandelier Technologies are leveraging New Mexico's ABQ-Net, the only open-access entanglement-based quantum network in America. States don't build ecosystems overnight. They invest in the infrastructure and talent that make the research and innovation possible. New Mexico has built the quantum future through its public-private partnerships and economic development strategy—and our news shows those investments are gaining traction and momentum. Matthew Reichbach has the story 👇 https://lnkd.in/gAp2jEMi

Building quantum networking for a data center is one challenge. Building for satellites, remote infrastructure, and networks stretching across much longer distances is another altogether. In 2024, Qunnect became the first company to deploy a commercially available full turnkey entanglement distribution platform inside a third-party data center. And today, we're taking it further, partnering with Monarch Quantum to build smaller, more deployable versions of our hardware as we take quantum networking across the world and beyond. What would you build with quantum networking hardware you could source like any other part or fit in the palm of your hand?