Nov 12, 2020 15:30:00

'Project Taara' that provides an internet environment by connecting a maximum distance of 20km with light rays

There are many areas in the world where communication infrastructure is not yet well developed, and more than 3 billion people are unable to connect to the Internet. ' Project Taara ' connects a distance of up to 20km with invisible rays and provides a bandwidth of up to 20Gbps or more, and has started the service development on a trial basis starting from Kenya.

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'Project Taara' was originally named 'Free Space Optical Communications' and is a project promoted by Google's parent company Alphabet. One of Alphabet's projects aimed at 'providing an internet environment in areas with undeveloped communication infrastructure' is '

Loon, ' which flies a balloon equipped with a Wi-Fi antenna. Taara is a project that the engineers who participated in this Loon thought, 'Is there a way to solve the connection problem closer to the ground?'

Taara has installed two devices for transmitting and receiving invisible light. The devices can be installed up to 20km apart, and the devices can communicate with each other in a bandwidth of up to 20Gbps. This means that it's okay for thousands of people to watch YouTube at the same time.

The white device that the two men have attached to the tower is for Taara.

A ray of light is sent from the Taara device in the upper left town to the Taara device in the lower right opposite the river, and the net can be used in the lower right town as well.

Even in areas where communication infrastructure has not yet been developed due to reasons such as 'national parks are expanding' and 'cables that cross rivers are difficult to lay', cables are not required with Taara equipment, so environment construction is inexpensive. Is possible. The equipment is installed on the roof of a building or on a steel tower because there is a condition that 'communication between devices is not disturbed'.

Project Taara will work with Econet Group , a company that provides environmental services, to expand its network to sub-Saharan Africa, starting with Kenya.