Krishnaswamy, General Manager of Taara, says that the next stage of development is a small silicone optical chip that will avoid the need for many mirrors and lenses stations and allow multiple connections of one transmission device. Light-based chips can also replace the radio-based Wi-Fi networks in offices below the line, so-called LI-Fi.
Tara has a long road before you can compete with SPACEX Starlink, which has achieved 7,000 satellites estimated at $ 9.3 billion of revenues from 4.7 million subscribers last year.
While Musk’s business sells subscriptions directly to consumers, Taara Partners with large telecommunications companies such as Bharti Aartel and T-Mobile, which extends the basic optical fiber networks to distant sites or within dense urban areas where comfortable cables are expensive or impossible.
“Think about the spine that helps to increase and accelerate the current infrastructure there,” said Krishnaswami.
Teller and Krishnaswamy claim that Taara has many technological advantages on Starlink. MUSK satellites use radio signals that transmit a limited amount of frequency range to a fixed area, so more people in this space mean less than the signals available for each one, which slows down the total speeds.
This makes Starlink more effective in remote areas or on cruise ships and airlines, but it cannot compete with wire or light systems in cities their current card.
Moreover, Taara stations can be connected to columns, trees or buildings in hours instead of detonating them in space on the missiles, and there are no politicized auctions from the radio spectrum to move. Laser symptoms can intersect without intervention that suffers from radio frequencies.
“The connection is a very big problem … there are still 3 billion people who left behind,” said Krishnaswami from competing with Starlink. “I really think there is a lot of space for each of us.”
Tiller said that with more people online, the world will run out of traditional radio frequency ranges and will have to change the electromagnetic spectrum.
“If you can know how to be the first company to start transferring data across light, as soon as the whole world moves to this part of the spectrum, Taara will be in a really nice place,” Tiller said, adding that “he is ski to where it will be a pile.”
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