cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4164353
Here is the original (and technical) article published by company. …
The system, named the RU1, was unveiled today by Swedish startup TERASi. It’s billed as the world’s smallest and lightest mm-Wave radio, a form of communications that offers blazing-fast speeds and huge bandwidth.
James Campion, the CEO and co-founder of TERASi, describes the portable device as “the GoPro of backhaul radios.”
“RU1 can be deployed in minutes to keep units connected in fast-changing environments,” Campion told TNW. The devices, he continued, can be installed on tripods or drones. Multiple RU1s can then link into a resilient mesh, providing bandwidth for mission-critical applications such as live drone video, autonomous fleet control, and sensor data fusion.
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Terrestrial mesh radio using mmWave. Doesn’t seem to be a practical alternative for residential use.
Yeah. Looks like more oriented towards military use, but I thought there already were similar solutions in use by militaries, albeit for much simpler radio-communication (like analogue voice and stuff).
So, not really a StarLink alternative for everything StarLink provides, but something that should reduce the need for StarLink, in certain scenarios.
For residential use?
Hmm, well if you consider it as “community use”, maybe it can work out.
Perhaps one station can have connection to the Internet using Fibre and it can act as a bridge for the “peer-net” made using multiple of these, owned by each person.
How useful/viable it turns out to be, will depend upon pricing and stability. I can think of the following: