The technology requires line of sight connections high up on towers.
Alphabet is working with a telecom company to deliver internet access in remote parts of Africa.
“This beam is sent between two small Taara terminals to create a link,” Krishnaswamy wrote.
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Project Taara is working to expand the internet across communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The technology was piloted last year and is now up and running in Kenya.
Similar technology could be available in the US within the next five years, experts say.
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OWC is already used by the U.S. government for space communications and other specialized areas, Matsumori said.
The pandemic has shown us that this is one of the most important issues of our generation."
It was easy to bring in the latest technology and adopt it.
In the U.S., that is going to be significantly more complicated."
Project Taara is an exciting glimpse of one way that internet access can be provided to remote areas.
