Increasing access to the internet will require affordable, reliable, and scalable infrastructure.

Global internet traffic is projected to grow ~25% annually. Fiber-optic cable can support this growth in demand, but rolling out an extensive fiber network often means deployment complications. Planning and digging trenches to lay lines can be time-consuming and costly, and tough terrain can pose physical challenges that make expansion nearly impossible.

Nearly 3 billion people around the world do not have access to the internet, and billions more remain underserved with growing data demand.

Source: International Telecommunication Union

Where fiber fails to reach, operators and service providers require rapid and economical way to serve high-speed connectivity using wireless technologies. Today most of these technologies operate in the radio spectrum, but radio spectrum alone cannot support the world’s growing data demand.

What if we leapfrogged to the optical spectrum, and unlocked 30 times more data capacity?

Like fiber, but without the cables, Taara uses light to transmit information at super high speeds through the air as a very narrow, invisible beam.

Installing a WOC terminal in India

Extending high-speed broadband connectivity

The Taara team is currently deploying their light beam internet technology in India, Africa, and other locations around the world. Taara links offer a cost-effective and quickly deployable way to bring high-speed connectivity to cities and villages. Taara links help plug critical gaps to major access points, like cell towers and WiFi hotspots, and have the potential to help thousands of people access the educational, business, and communication benefits of the web.

High-throughput links move data wirelessly

High-speed, long-range technology

With clear line of sight, wireless optical communication technology can transmit data at high speeds of up to 20 Gbps bidirectional throughput up to 20 km. Network operators and service providers can rapidly deploy and redeploy Taara links to:

Extend fiber backhaul
Augment radio backhaul
Improve network resilience
Cross challenging terrain
Relay high-capacity backbone
Provide redundancy path

Supports growing demand

The system is effective in areas that are difficult to connect using fiber cables or experiencing congestion on radio equipment. These areas include sites around forested regions, water bodies, railway tracks, and dense urban areas.

Easy to integrate

Based on open standards to work with existing infrastructure, including radio and fiber.

Reimagining the future of connectivity

Follow Taara’s journey to connect the under connected with wireless optical communication technology.

Alphabet’s Project Taara laser tech beamed 700TB of data across nearly 5km

The 20Gbps Free Space Optical Communications tech for Project Taara was originally part of Project Loon.

Beaming broadband across the Congo River

Taara’s wireless optical communications links are now beaming light-speed connectivity from Brazzaville to Kinshasa across the Congo River

Bringing light-speed internet to Sub-Saharan Africa

Project Taara is working with Econet Group and its subsidiaries to roll out wireless optical communication links across their network starting in Kenya

Bringing the Internet to underserved locations

The Taara team is implementing 20 Gbps connectivity over distances up to 20 km with units that are fast and easy to deploy. The team is working with telcos, internet service providers (ISPs), and governments around the world to significantly accelerate the deployment of the extensive, high-throughput networks necessary to support the future of  the web.

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