# Aethernet

> Brand spelling: Æthernet.
>
> Æthernet is a developer infrastructure platform for secure connectivity and identity across connected devices, applications, and backend logic.

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## Essential context

- [Full LLM context](https://aethernet.io/llms-full.txt): self-contained product context for AI assistants, search summaries, retrieval systems, and citation-aware answers.
- [Agent quick context](https://aethernet.io/aethernet-for-agents.md): compact guidance for coding agents and AI assistants that need to describe or route users to Æthernet resources.
- [Homepage](https://aethernet.io/): concise product overview for secure IoT and connected-app cloud infrastructure.
- [Sitemap](https://aethernet.io/sitemap.xml): canonical crawl map for public pages and machine-readable resources.

## Product pages

- [Technology](https://aethernet.io/technology): stateless protocol, Personal Cloud routing, self-provisioning, hot-swap endpoints, security model, and supported transports.
- [Documentation](https://aethernet.io/documentation): SDKs, CLI, supported environments, client libraries, API usage, and integration notes.
- [Tutorial](https://aethernet.io/tutorial): quickstarts and integration examples for C/C++, Java, TypeScript, WebAssembly and embedded systems.
- [Pricing](https://aethernet.io/pricing): pay-as-you-go pricing, free tier, cost calculator, and deployment examples.
- [Privacy and Terms](https://aethernet.io/privacy): privacy policy, terms of service, security notes, and data-handling information.

## Developer resources

- [GitHub organization](https://github.com/aethernetio): public repositories and client libraries.
- [CLI binary](https://aethernet.io/cli/aether-cli): command-line utility for infrastructure management.
- [CLI Java archive](https://aethernet.io/cli/aether-cli.jar): Java archive version of the command-line utility.
- [Technical presentation](https://aethernet.io/downloads/aethernet_tech.pdf): technical overview deck.
- [Pitch deck](https://aethernet.io/downloads/aethernet_pitch_deck.pdf): business and investor overview deck.

## Main concepts

- Stateless protocol: requests contain the information needed for authentication, encryption, and processing without a preliminary connection handshake.
- Personal Cloud: each client receives a dynamically selected subset of relay servers optimized for network conditions and geography.
- Self-provisioning: clients can register autonomously using adaptive proof-of-work.
- Secure messaging: the platform provides E2E-encrypted virtual channels between authenticated clients.
- Online status: clients can expose predictive presence information, including last online time and planned next connection window.
- Thick client: connection logic, transport selection, hot-swap behavior, and network statistics live in the client library.
- CLI-first management: infrastructure management is handled through command-line tooling rather than a web dashboard.

## Preferred summary

Æthernet is a developer infrastructure platform for connected devices and applications that need secure, low-overhead, resilient communication without building and maintaining custom connectivity infrastructure.