One Company Is Bringing High-Speed Connections to the Most Remote Areas Using Safe Beams of Light

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One tech company has decided to bring internet to some of the most remote areas in the world. The project has managed to develop a way to bring fiber optic-speed internet to the more mountainous and inaccessible areas of Kenya and India.

The plan is to put projectors on high towers and blast beams of gigabyte-rich light in order to get internet connectivity to those seemingly impossible places to reach.

So what could this project do? One good example would be helping a villager join a Zoom meeting from the more far-flung mountains of India, like in Chaparai valley. That person would need to have a system that was not only quick to work, but easy to access despite the very craggy terrain. This is where Project Taara comes in.


Project Taara, which it’s called, was founded by the incredibly innovative tech company simply named X. The highly cutting-edge tech giant lives up to its motto, which is “We create radical new technologies to solve some of the world’s hardest problems.”  The company also calls the project the “Moonshot Factory” which has managed to use an alternative way of ‘laying hundreds of miles of fiber optic cable to connect remote villages’ that it is not only cheaper, but less labor intensive as well.

The project uses the same beams of light within fiber-optic cables but without the actual cables. Amazingly, the projectors that have been placed on the towers via high poles can even beam the wireless optical communication technology 12 miles through the air.

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In fact, if there is a clear line of sight, the information can even transmit data at speeds of up to 20 gigabytes per second. And it can even be done without having to deal with real estate laws, not having to tunnel under railroads, or even having to dig around bodies of water to install them.

Project X was also quick to explain that the narrow, invisible beam of light won’t damage a single part of any animal physiology either. But, if there are objects that happen to go or pass through the beam of information, there would be a slight service interruption. Thankfully, the technology has a system in place that will automatically resend the data that was interrupted. One good example of something like this happening would be if birds ended up flying across the stream.


According to Dinesh Kumar, the project officer of India’s Integrated Tribal Development Agency that happens to be working with Taara explains, “We are creating history here,” speaking about bringing internet connectivity to the most remote part of India.

He adds, “The last 400 years I couldn’t get connectivity here to Chaparai… it’s an absolute miracle.”

So what exactly does this mean for the rest of the world? For those 3 billion or more people on the planet that have no access to internet, tech company X will continue to work in other countries aside from India like Kenya and other sub-Saharan regions in Africa.

Meanwhile, Liquid Telecom and Econet Group – which is one of the telecommunications services across Kenya – will also include Taara-sourced connectivity to their packages since the project was so successful during its introductory year.

The Taara team shares that their focus these days is to deliver “20+ Gbps connectivity over distances of 20+ km between each terminal and on making the units fast and easy for partners to deploy.” The company is already in talks with other ISPs, Telcos and various governments and authorities in different countries to discuss the possibility of bringing Project Taara to the most remote and more difficult areas to reach all around the world.

 

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