
Taara Lightbridge brings high speed, light-based internet access to areas where it’s too difficult or expensive to install traditional fibre
From the Taara team:
Taara Lightbridge brings fast, fibre-like internet access to areas where it’s too difficult or expensive to install traditional fiber, like in dense city neighborhoods, over rivers and seas, or across rugged terrains and national parks. In the same way fiber optic cables in the ground use light to carry data, Taara uses narrow, invisible light beams to transmit information through the air, at speeds as high as 20 gigabits per second and across distances up to 20 kilometers. Taara’s Lightbridge units deliver high speed, high quality internet and require only a few hours to set up, without the time and cost associated with digging trenches or stringing cables.
Nearly 3 billion people remain unconnected to the internet, and billions more struggle with slow, unreliable or expensive connectivity. Fibre optic cables are the gold standard for high-speed connectivity, but it’s often unsuitable because it’s costly, impractical, or geographically impossible. Where fibre fails to reach, operators and service providers often turn to radio frequency to fill the gap. However, traditional radio frequency bands are congested and running out of available bandwidth, making it harder to support 5G expansion and keep up the growing global demand for fast, reliable connectivity.
