A Quantum-Entanglement Locality Area Network uses quantum entanglement to provide instantaneous and secure connections over unlimited distances. Communicating devices require access to a source of entangled Qubits and need to periodically measure them via Bell measurement, destroying the entanglement. Due to the cost of producing and shipping Qubits QuanLan remains an expensive and rarely used communication medium except where instantaneous or secure communication is highly valuable.

Due to the mostly point to point nature of most QuanLan communications, the more advanced routing protocols used in InterMesh networks and the Exonet are replaced by a variant of Multiprotocol Label Switching. Each QuanLan device is assigned an id that represents its remote entangled particle(s), a routing table maintains a record of these ids to allow communication with multiple devices, and a link management protocol ensures their efficient use.

The instantaneous communication provided by QuanLan has effectively eliminated high frequency trading, and has resulted in several new doctrines in maneuver warfare. As the no-cloning theorem in quantum mechanics makes eavesdropping or data interception virtually impossible, there are many uses for QuanLan in defense, diplomacy, and banking. And as quantum superposition vastly increases the bandwidth of a QuanLan compared to binary connection, some large distributed data analytic tasks require QuanLan connections.