According to Google, the way Taara works isnt entirely dissimilar from how fiber optic cables work.
Taara forgoes the physical wires and instead transmits data directly through an invisible beam of light.
The company claims the technology is capable of transferring data at speeds as high as 20 Gbps.
At the moment, it can send that data over distances as much as 12 miles.
Of course, Google isnt the first to work with light to deliver data.
Starlink famously uses lasers to deliver data from its low-orbit satellites that communicate with base stations on the ground.
But Taara is not beaming data down from space, but rather across the earth.
In aninterview with Wired, project lead Mahesh Krishnaswamy offered some lofty promisesand a direct shot at some competition.
Taara is more than just theoretical, thoughits in useand commercially operational in 12 countries, per Wired.
It was also deployed at Coachella to supplement phone networks.
So, let there be light.
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