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

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

2003

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

2013

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

2019

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

2019

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

MAR 2022

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

JULY 2022

Contract with Defense Innovation Unit for Hybrid Space Architecture Program.

MAR 2023

Aalyria is selected to orchestrate Rivada Space Networks LEO constellation.

SEPT 2023

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

NOV 2023

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

DEC 2023

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

OCT 2024

Aalyria awarded NASA contract

MAR 2025

Aalyria and Keysight showcase world’s first O-RAN NTN RIC integration

WE'RE ORCHESTRATING NETWORKS AT PLANETARY SCALE

contracted by

PARTNERED WITH

CONTRIBUTing TO

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.

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.

network orchestration software platform

ATMOSPHERIC LASER COMMUNICATIONS

Laser Class

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.

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.

leadership

Chris

Founder and CEO

A South Buffalo kid with a hankering for space

Dan

Chief Financial Officer

My life is numbers and the story they tell

Brian

Chief Technology Officer, Spacetime

An engineering leader with a traveling salesman problem

Baris

Chief Technology Officer, Aalyria Space

An engineer committed to herding photons carrying bits

Paul

Chief Systems Architect

So many bits; so little time!

Michael

Chief Product Officer

A polymath who failed math

Julie

Chief of Staff and Business Operations

Shifted from "ops" to business operations

Henry

Head of Engineering

5-nines of the time, it works every time

Hamilton

Director, Corporate Development

Consultant turned space cadet

Ian

Director, Global Public Sector

Connecting problems to solutions

Shella

Head of Proposals

Writing our legend one proposal at a time

Sun

Head of Capture

Winning work through value propositions and to-do lists

Advisory Board

DR. VINT CERF

One of the fathers of the internet

HON. ROBERT O. WORK

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

MAJ. GEN. KIM CRIDER (RET.)

Former chief innovation & technology officer at US Space Force

MILO MEDIN

Distinguished engineer at Schmidt Futures and former VP at Google

DAVE RENSIN

Distinguished Engineer at Google

ERIC GILLESPIE

Founder of Govini

JOSH MARCUSE

Head of federal strategy at Google

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 and Keysight Collaborate to Advance 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks

Business Wire

March 3, 2025

As part of a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Aalyria and Keysight will integrate Spacetime, Aalyria’s AI-powered NTN RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) platform, with Keysight’s NTN RAN RICtest solutions.

The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2025

Via Satellite

February 18, 2025

The future of space communications is cross-vendor, multi-orbit, and multi-domain. Aalyria is making this vision of communications a reality today with its Spacetime network orchestration platform.

Contact

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info@aalyria.com

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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.