{"id":223802,"date":"2026-05-04T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223802"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:54:54","slug":"taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223802","title":{"rendered":"Taara Brings Fiber-Optic Speeds to Open-Air Laser Links\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light. Its newest product, debuting this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, aims at a different kind of connectivity problem: getting internet access into buildings in cities that already have plenty of fiber\u2014just not where it\u2019s needed.The Sunnyvale&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/free-space-optical-link-taara\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links.jpg",980,735,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links.jpg",980,735,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links.jpg",980,735,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links.jpg",980,735,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223802-taara-brings-fiber-optic-speeds-to-open-air-laser-links-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}