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A women-led startup, has developed an innovative wireless product that gives fibre like bandwidth at fraction of cost of fibre to help telecom operators deliver reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas.

Highlight

• Reaching internet access to remote places in countries like India is difficult because laying fibre is too expensive.
• There is a need for wireless backhaul products that can deliver low cost, high data capacity, and wide reach.
• Currently available, wireless backhaul products either do not provide sufficient data speeds or the required range or are very expensive to deploy.

About the technology

• The wireless product called Giga Mesh could enable telecom operators deploy quality, high-speed rural telecom infrastructure at 5 times lower cost. 
• The Multi-beam E-band product, Giga Mesh, packs 6 Point-to-Point E-band radios in one, thereby distributing the cost of the device over multiple links and hence reduces capital expenditure.
• The radio provides long-range and multi-Gbps data throughput at each link.
• Features like automatic link alignment, dynamic power allocation between links, and remote link formation help operators achieve significant operating expenditure cost reduction.

Source: PIB