For months and years, you have been waiting for Starlink to start its services in India. But what if I tell you that a ground breaking technology is likely to shake up the internet market not only in India but across the world.
Meet Taara, a California based US company that has made quantum leaps in providing faster, reliable and cheaper Internet that could disrupt the Internet market across all countries.
What is special about Taara is that it uses concentrated beam of light (instead of Fiber cable) through its device called as Lightbridge to deliver internet with speeds ranging upto 20 Gigabits per second across a distance of 20 Kms. The device is almost equivalent to the traffic light.
You can think of it as somethng similar to AirFiber internet from companies like Jio and Airtel which provide internet access to a installed device on the building or house from where the internet could be trickeled down to multiple devices in the household.
If Taara’s technology would scale up, day is not far away when you would forget what buffering is. The only constraint of this technology is a clear line of sight. But what is more important is that fiber cable installation won’t be needed which is big headache on difficult terrains like mountains, rivers and dense urban layouts, especially in a country like India where bureaucracy is major hurdle.
More importantly, the company claims that they have refined their algorithm so that the beam of light remains aligned ensuring energy efficiency in large data transmission in all weather conditions.
Faster and Cheaper than Starlink
The company is being headed by Mahesh Krishnaswamy who previously worked extensively in now the discontinued Ballon Internet project of Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
The company claims that it is faster and cheaper than Starlink and fiber broadband, however it doesn’t compete with it as it believes that Starlink Internet is primarily for geographical areas with almost no internet connectivity whereas Taara’s usp is in providing faster internet than fiber cable without digging up the ground.
Taara is currently providing Internet access in 12 countries and the company claims that its internet services can be deployed without any spectrum license.
Taara’s goal is to connect the “last mile,” bridge connectivity gaps in urban and rural areas, and eventually reach over 2.6 billion people worldwide who lack reliable internet access.
