CONNECTIVITY EVERYWHERE

CONNECTIVITY

EVERYWHERE

WE'RE ORCHESTRATING NETWORKS AT PLANETARY SCALE

Aalyria is creating, organizing and managing the world’s most advanced networks to enable connectivity everywhere at the speed of discovery. Aalyria brings together two technologies originally developed at Alphabet as part of its wireless connectivity efforts: atmospheric laser communications technology and a software platform for orchestrating networks across land, sea, air, space and beyond. It is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including the founders of Accel, J2 Ventures and Housatonic.

we're orchestrating networks at planetary scale

Aalyria is creating, organizing and managing the world’s most advanced networks to enable connectivity everywhere at the speed of discovery. Aalyria brings together two technologies originally developed at Alphabet as part of its wireless connectivity efforts:
atmospheric
laser
communications
technology and a
software
platform
for orchestrating networks across land, sea, air, space and beyond. It is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including the founders of Accel, J2 Ventures and Housatonic.

Our Story

1998

Start of the coherent light free space optics (FSO) program, now Tightbeam

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2003

Our FSO program achieved a world record by successfully closing the first non-coherent 100Gb/s optical link

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2013

Start of a software platform for Temporospatial Software Defined Networking (TS-SDN), now Spacetime.

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2019

TS-SDN deployed at scale with 2 million flight hours for Loon’s stratospheric mesh network.

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2019

Our FSO program closed first air to ground coherent 100Gb/s optical link

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MAR 2022

Aalyria is formed; acquires coherent-light atmospheric FSO (Tightbeam) and TS-SDN (Spacetime) technology from Google

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JULY 2022

Contract with Defense Innovation Unit for Hybrid Space Architecture Program.

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MAR 2023

Aalyria is selected to orchestrate Rivada Space Networks LEO constellation.

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SEPT 2023

Aalyria signs deal with Intelsat to advance multi-orbit connectivity.

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NOV 2023

Telesat selects Aalyria for orchestration of its revolutionary Telesat Lightspeed Constellation.

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DEC 2023

Aalyria to develop ESA's O-RAN platform for 5G/6G NTN connectivity.

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WE'RE ORCHESTRATING NETWORKS AT PLANETARY SCALE

Aalyria is creating, organizing and managing the world’s most advanced networks to enable connectivity everywhere at the speed of discovery. Aalyria brings together two technologies originally developed at Alphabet as part of its wireless connectivity efforts: atmospheric laser communications technology and a software platform for orchestrating networks across land, sea, air, space and beyond. It is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including the founders of Accel, J2 Ventures and Housatonic.

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tightbeam logo
contracted by
Defense Innovation Unit
DISA
US Air Force
Air Force Research Lab
US Navy
NRL
US Space Force
Space Warfighting Analysis Center
SOCOM
Rivada
Intelsat
Telesat
ESA
Defense Innovation Unit
DISA
US Air Force
Air Force Research Lab
US Navy
NRL
US Space Force
Space Warfighting Analysis Center
SOCOM
Rivada
Intelsat
Telesat
ESA
Defense Innovation Unit
DISA
US Air Force
Air Force Research Lab
US Navy
NRL
US Space Force
Space Warfighting Analysis Center
SOCOM
Rivada
Intelsat
Telesat
ESA
PARTNERED WITH
NETWORK ORCHESTRATION SOFTWARE PLATFORM
Spacetime is a software platform for orchestrating networks of ground stations, aircraft, satellites, ships, and urban meshes. It optimizes and continually evolves the antenna link scheduling, network traffic routing, and spectrum resources — responding in realtime to changing network requirements. Spacetime operates networks across land, sea, air, and space, at any altitude or orbit type, supports all radio frequency bands and optical wavelengths, and it is designed for interoperability with legacy, hybrid space, 5G NTN and FutureG network architectures.
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ATMOSPHERIC LASER COMMUNICATIONS
Tightbeam is the world's most advanced coherent light free space optics technology. At rates faster than any other solutions available today and covering greater distances than previously imagined, it moves data intact through the atmosphere and weather, and offers connectivity where no supporting infrastructure exists. Tightbeam radically improves satellite communications, Wi-Fi on planes and ships, and cellular connectivity everywhere.
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Spacetime logo

network orchestration software platform

Spacetime is a software platform for orchestrating networks of ground stations, aircraft, satellites, ships, and urban meshes.  It optimizes and continually evolves the antenna link scheduling, network traffic routing, and spectrum resources — responding in realtime to changing network requirements.  Spacetime operates networks across land, sea, air, and space, at any altitude or orbit type, supports all radio frequency bands and optical wavelengths, and it is designed for interoperability with legacy, hybrid space, 5G NTN and FutureG network architectures.

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Tightbeam illustration
Tightbeam logo

ATMOSPHERIC LASER COMMUNICATIONS

Laser Class
1M
Laser Power
1–10+ Watts
Power
300 Watts
Aperture
70mm–200mm
Gimbal Sizes
8"–15"
Ground to Space
Terrestrial
Airborne

Tightbeam is the world's most advanced coherent free space optics technology. At rates faster than any other solutions available today and covering greater distances than previously imagined, it moves data intact through the atmosphere and weather, and offers connectivity where no supporting infrastructure exists. Tightbeam radically improves satellite communications, Wi-Fi on planes and ships, and cellular connectivity everywhere.

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WE ARE A Team of 80+ Visionaries
Assembled from the original technical teams with experience from Google, Amazon, Meta, NASA, Cisco, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and more.
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leadership

Chris
Chris
Founder and CEO
A South Buffalo kid with a hankering for space
Dan
Dan
Chief Financial Officer
My life is numbers and the story they tell
Brian
Brian
Chief Technology Officer, Spacetime
An engineering leader with a traveling salesman problem
Baris
Baris
Chief Technology Officer, Aalyria Space
An engineer committed to herding photons carrying bits
Paul
Paul
Chief Systems Architect
So many bits; so little time!
Michael
Michael
Chief Product Officer
A polymath who failed math
Julie
Julie
Chief of Staff and Business Operations
Shifted from "ops" to business operations
Henry
Henry
Head of Engineering
5-nines of the time, it works every time
Hamilton
Hamilton
Director, Corporate Development
Consultant turned space cadet
Ian
Ian
Director, Global Public Sector
Connecting problems to solutions
Shella
Shella
Head of Proposals
Writing our legend one proposal at a time
Sun
Sun
Head of Capture
Winning work through value propositions and to-do lists

Advisory Board

DR. VINT CERF
DR. VINT CERF
One of the fathers of the internet
HON. ROBERT O. WORK
HON. ROBERT O. WORK
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense
MAJ. GEN. KIM CRIDER (RET.)
MAJ. GEN. KIM CRIDER (RET.)
Former chief innovation & technology officer at US Space Force
MILO MEDIN
MILO MEDIN
Distinguished engineer at Schmidt Futures and former VP at Google
DAVE RENSIN
DAVE RENSIN
Distinguished Engineer at Google
ERIC GILLESPIE
ERIC GILLESPIE
Founder of Govini
JOSH MARCUSE
JOSH MARCUSE
Head of federal strategy at Google
KENT EISENHUTH
KENT EISENHUTH
Product design leader at Google

Press Feed

Google spins out secret hi-speed telecom project called Aalyria, and keeps stake in startup
Inside Google, a team of techies has been working behind the scenes on software for high-speed communications networks that extend from land to space.
Aalyria envisions communications revolution for Earth, the Moon and beyond
Only recently out of “stealth mode,” ambitious start-up Aalyria is swinging for the stars, literally.
There’s a plan for Google’s failed balloon-based internet, and it involves lasers
Alphabet’s Loon project, which aimed to provide internet via a series of balloons, was shut down last year — but the tech associated with it has been spun off into a startup.
Press
Aalyria Awarded NASA Contract to Lead Advanced Network Orchestration Study and Demonstration
Business Wire
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October 3, 2024

NASA’s goals for the future SCaN program require orchestrating dynamic interconnections between NASA mission spacecraft and their government and commercial service providers

Space startup Aalyria demonstrates satellite mesh network
SpaceNews
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February 12, 2024

The company is working with the Defense Innovation Unit to create a “hybrid space architecture”

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Contact
GET IN TOUCH
General inquires
info@aalyria.com
PRESS INQUIRIES
press@aalyria.com
CUSTOMER / PARTNERSHIP
sales@aalyria.com
Podcast
Pathfinder Podcast

Aalyria just emerged from stealth mode, announcing an acquisition of a trove of connectivity technology from Google. The search juggernaut's parent company Alphabet has been developing high-altitude networking technology and apparently a space laser for years, if not decades.