Quantum networking infrastructure developer Qunnect has announced the formal activation of ABQ-Net in Albuquerque, New Mexico, marking the first open-access, entanglement-based quantum network testbed in the United States. Designed to provide early-stage startups and commercial technology companies with affordable access to live network environments, the infrastructure launches with two active nodes integrated directly into commercial telecom fiber pathways. The network serves as a real-world validation environment for physical layer technologies and software protocols targeting quantum cybersecurity, distributed quantum processing, and quantum sensing across the defense, finance, telecom, and energy sectors. The physical layer underpinning the distributed network topology is driven natively [...]