Taara, a spinoff of Alphabet’s ‘moonshot’ incubator, has unveiled Taara Beam, a technology that offers 25Gbps connectivity using invisible beams of light within cities, provided there is a line of sight. This innovative solution, following last year’s Taara Lightbridge, enables city-wide connectivity up to 10km by mounting the compact 8kg device on street poles and rooftops. Consuming around 90W, Taara Beam provides fiber-like speeds with deployment in hours, competing with services like Starlink but offering superior latency under 100μs.
Taara Beam targets enterprises and telcos needing robust ‘middle-mile’ infrastructure, with applications including offloading data from electric vehicles and enabling high-speed mesh networks for low-latency V2X communications at city intersections. Already adopted in over 20 countries by major players like T-Mobile and Airtel, Taara is set to showcase its technology at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Source: The Verge