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 ...

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 ...

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

Its flagship product, Taara Lightbridge, is a wireless communications system that transmits data using invisible laser beams. Unlike traditional fibers, which take years and require high investment to ...

Another success for the 'Moonshot factory' and an extra rival for Starlink et al Google’s attempt to provide remote area connectivity with balloons has been floated out as an independent company, a ...

Test trials began in New Zealand in 2013; however, in 2021, Alphabet announced that the project was no longer sustainable. Using helium balloons traveling in wind currents several miles above ...

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 ...