{"id":130836,"date":"2021-11-18T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/alphabets-project-taara-is-using-lasers-to-beam-internet-across-the-worlds-deepest-river"},"modified":"2021-11-18T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T06:22:53","slug":"alphabets-project-taara-is-using-lasers-to-beam-internet-across-the-worlds-deepest-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/alphabets-project-taara-is-using-lasers-to-beam-internet-across-the-worlds-deepest-river","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet\u2019s Project Taara Is Using Lasers to Beam Internet Across the World\u2019s Deepest River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alphabets-project-taara-is-using-lasers-to-beam-internet-across-the-worlds-deepest-river2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His team, he adds, has spent years refining the technology\u2019s atmospheric sensing, mirror controls, and motion detection capabilities; Taara\u2019s terminals can now automatically adjust to changes in the environment to maintain precise connections.<\/p>\n<p>Project Taara aims to bridge a connectivity gap between the Republic of the Congo\u2019s Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s Kinshasa. The cities lie just 4.8 kilometers (2.9 miles) apart, but between them is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/congo-river.html#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20the%20Congo%20River,%2C%20according%20to%20Phys.org.\">Congo River <\/a>\u2014it\u2019s the deepest river in the world (220 meters\/720 feet in parts! Pretty terrifying, if you ask me), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/which-are-the-fastest-rivers-in-the-world.html\">second-fastest<\/a>, and the only one that crosses the equator twice. That makes for some complicated logistics, and as such, internet connectivity in Kinshasa (which is on the river\u2019s south bank) very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Local internet providers are putting down 400 kilometers of fiber connection around the river, but in a textbook example of <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/06\/leapfrogging-tech-is-changing-millions-of-lives-heres-how\/\">leapfrogging technology<\/a>, Project Taara used WOC to beam high-speed connectivity over the river instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His team, he adds, has spent years refining the technology\u2019s atmospheric sensing, mirror controls, and motion detection capabilities; Taara\u2019s terminals can now automatically adjust to changes in the environment to maintain precise connections. Project Taara aims to bridge a connectivity gap between the Republic of the Congo\u2019s Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s Kinshasa. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}