Alphabet's Taara chip uses light beams to provide high-speed internet

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Alphabet's Taara chip uses light beams to provide high-speed internet

Alphabet has announced a new development for Project Taara's technology that could lead to low-cost, high-speed internet connectivity, even in far-flung locations.

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Google Is Developing Technology to Deliver Internet Via Light Bridges

Taara is the latest moonshot out of Alphabet’s X lab.

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Google’s Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light

The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.

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No more underground cables or expensive satellites: Google wants to send the Internet directly by beams of light. Here is the Taara project. [Read more]Download our Android and iOS app! You can read our articles, reports, and watch our latest YouTube videos.

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How long would it take you to deploy a fiber-optic network infrastructure in a remote part of Africa? Months, years, perhaps. Now imagine being able to achieve the same connection speed in a few days, without digging trenches or laying cables, but simply by installing devices the size of a traffic light. Better yet, imagine being able to do it with chips the size of a fingernail. That’s the promise of the Taara chip, Alphabet’s latest innovation…

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Google's newest moonshot delivers internet by firing lasers through the air — Taara project upgrades to tiny 13mm photonic chips placed 1km apart

Taara, Google's current underdog project run by its X research lab, seeks to replace fiber optic cables with above-ground light transmitters.