Taara adapted Loon’s laser technology for use in terrestrial network equipment. The company’s flagship product, the Taara Lightbridge, is a wireless communications system about the size of a traffic ...

Google’s attempt to provide remote area connectivity with balloons has been floated out as an independent company, a rare success for the company’s attempt to develop breakthrough technologies.

Derived from Alphabet’s failed balloon-based internet project, Project Taara could enable “10, if not 100 times more bandwidth” than a typical Starlink antenna, Taara lead Mahesh ...

Aside from Taara, the free-space optics approach is also being pursued by Aalyria, a Silicon Valley company that has been ...

which imagined distributing data by shooting lasers around a network of 20-mile-high balloons. Believe it or not, that proved unfeasible in the end, and Loon was wound down in 2021 — just three years ...

It has its origins in an Alphabet-created concept called Loon. This was a modified version of the same idea that shot beams of light to and from groups of balloons floating on the edge of space. There ...

Alphabet is spinning out laser-based Internet company Taara from its “moonshot” incubator, hoping to turbocharge the start-up ...

T-Mobile has also used Taara in the US during two large-scale events; the Albuquerque Balloon Festival and Coachella. Taara ...

Alphabet has officially spun off Taara, a laser-based internet startup, from its experimental incubator, X. This move positions Taara as a direct competitor to Elon Musk’s Starlink, aiming to provide ...