![]() ![]() ![]() "I think this is really disruptive," he said. He said it is less expensive to beam data between buildings than to bury fiber-optic cables. "Taara is moving more data every single day than Loon did in its entire history," said Teller.īharti Airtel's chief technology officer, Randeep Sekhon, said Taara will also help deliver faster internet service in urban areas in developed countries. It gave rise to self-driving technology firm Waymo, drone delivery service Wing and health tech startup Verily Life Sciences. ![]() X is Alphabet's research division that takes on projects bordering on science-fiction. "We call this moonshot composting," said Astro Teller, who leads X where he is known as "captain of moonshots." Krishnaswamy said he had an epiphany while working on the failed balloon internet project Loon which used lasers for connecting data between balloons, and brought that technology to the ground. Partners like Airtel use the machines to build out communications infrastructure in hard-to-reach places. Taara's machine is the size of traffic lights that beam the laser carrying the data - essentially fiber-optic internet without the cables. "We are trying to be one of the cheapest and the most affordable place where you would be able to get dollar per gigabyte to the end consumers," he said. Taara is helping to link up internet services in 13 countries so far including Australia, Kenya and Fiji, said Krishnaswamy, adding that it has struck deals with Econet Group and its subsidiary Liquid Telecom in Africa, internet provider Bluetown in India and Digicel in the Pacific Islands. Taara executives and Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS), one of India's largest telecommunications and internet providers, told Reuters they are now moving toward larger-scale deployment of the new laser internet technology in India. This time around, things are progressing better, said Mahesh The project known as Taara is part of Alphabet's innovation lab called X, also nicknamed the "Moonshot Factory." It was initiated in 2016 after attempts at using stratospheric balloons to deliver internet ran into problems due to high costs, company executives said. MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 26 (Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has already tried and failed to bring internet access to rural and remote areas by using high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere.īut now, the company is delivering internet service to remote areas by using beams of light. ![]()
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