Can Taara’s Lasers Overcome the Small Problem of Weather?

Can Taara’s Lasers Overcome the Small Problem of Weather?

Twenty years ago, Web-savvy folks were focused on solving the Internet’s “last-mile” problem. Today, by contrast, one of the biggest bottlenecks to expanding Internet access is rather around a “middle-mile” problem—crossing cities and tough terrain, not just driveways and country roads. Taara, a spin-off of X (formerly Google X), is promoting a simple alternative to fiber-optic cables: Free-space optical lasers. Using over-the-air infrared C-ban…