Cutting the cord
- Imagine fiber-like Internet speed, but without the fiber cables. This means skipping the mega effort needed to lay undersea hardware. Rohit Jha and Mohammad Danesh dreamed it, and they’re hard at work to make it a reality around the world.
- 500-backed superfast Internet company Transcelestial’s shoebox-sized device, the CENTAURI, which comes in 10G and 25G speeds, can stabilize laser beams over long distances without being hampered by weather conditions.
- “Suddenly the question about affordable, high-bandwidth connectivity becomes easier to answer,” shared Co-founder & CEO Rohit Jha.
- For their recent rollout at Coachella, the devices took only a day to set up, and they delivered around 150 Mbps to a single phone. “This is 25 times faster than some of the telco networks,” he added.
- Beyond the U.S. and their home base Singapore, Transcelestial is deploying lasercomms in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, and across the Pacific islands.
- But that’s not all. The team wants to take their laser technology to outer space. In low earth orbit, to be precise, where data can be picked up from data center-rich or cable-rich places and then distributed into cities, towns and villages.
- “[Transcelestial’s tech] has capability to go from tens of gigabits to hundreds of gigabits to eventually terabits per second from orbit,” Rohit shared.
- Testing for this network, dubbed “The Ring,” is currently underway, with the team planning to launch beta service sometime in 2026.
- They are also planning to build data centers in space, because routing data is not enough.
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