Taara

Taara extends and amplifies the global communications network infrastructure, bringing high-speed connectivity with beams of light. Born at @theteamatx.

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As AI infrastructure scales, data centers are facing a growing challenge beyond processing power: connectivity timelines.

In a recent conversation with @DiaMariesbeat from @FierceNetwork_, Taara CEO Mahesh Krishnaswamy discussed how fiber shortages, supply chain delays, and long construction cycles are creating pressure across the data center ecosystem, leaving valuable infrastructure waiting to come online.

“One of the biggest challenges [data centers] are facing is that they are sitting on a large amount of chips and compute which is not being put into production while they are waiting for the rest of the infrastructure to be built out,” Mahesh told Fierce.

Taara’s wireless optical communication technology can help bridge that gap, enabling high capacity connectivity to be deployed rapidly while fiber catches up, and later serving as a resilient backup layer for critical operations.

The conversation also explores how Taara is approaching the data center ecosystem, from enterprise facilities to future high-capacity interconnect opportunities to edge data centers, as demand for bandwidth and low latency infrastructure continues to accelerate.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/hfwRyMqAv7

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“We go where fiber can’t go, or where it’s very difficult to reach.”

At @WebSummit Vancouver, Taara CEO Mahesh Krishnaswamy spoke with @robpegoraro about Taara’s growing global deployment footprint — from connecting islands in the Philippines with @SMARTPromos and @enjoyGLOBE to enabling rapid connectivity deployments at @Google's Bay View campus in Mountain View.

“Where you need massive amounts of throughput, that is our strength,” said Mahesh.

From @Theteamatx , The Moonshot Factory to real world network infrastructure, Taara is helping extend high capacity connectivity through light.

Read more on @Light_Reading: https://t.co/MjjNmoOjjo

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The most expensive miles of delivering the internet are the ones we still dig for.

Subsea cables carry the world's data across oceans at the speed of light. Once we land it, we slow down the speed at which it reaches people, trenching fiber to distribute it through cities, waiting years for permits, leaving the miles unbuilt because the economics are hard to close.

Taara is unwiring that stretch without the need for a shovel.

Taara extends light-speed connectivity across those urban landscapes and challenging terrain and carries it into the places fiber can’t reach affordably or fast enough. We start to form the beginning of something the industry hasn't had before: a light-based connectivity layer that runs from the subsea cable landing point to the distribution node.

When we change the unit economics of how the internet gets delivered, we change who gets to participate in the digital economy. A community. A campus. A data center. A city.

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As data center demands accelerate, the future of AI will depend not only on processing power, but on how efficiently systems are connected.

@robpegoraro explores how photonics can address the growing pressure for AI data centers, and what role optical networking plays in the connectivity stack of the AI infrastructure.

Read more on @PCMag , featuring Taara CEO Mahesh Krishnaswamy, NTT, and @nttdata_inc's #IOWN:

https://t.co/V4xtkT2KoD

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The future of connectivity won’t be buried underground.

Taara CEO Mahesh Krishnaswamy explores why connectivity — not compute — may become the defining bottleneck of the AI era.

As AI infrastructure scales faster than traditional networks can support, this image shows a Taara link extending connectivity over the air from the East Africa Data Center into Pipeline, Nairobi — delivering high-capacity connectivity through light, without trenching or long deployment timelines.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/cMRld18gWp

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From electrical limits to optical abundance.

At @CLEOConf 2026, Tymon Barwicz, Senior Director and Head of Integrated Circuits at @TaaraConnect , will discuss how integrated photonics is reshaping multi-kilometer atmospheric wireless optical communication through scalable, high-performance packaged modules.

Session: Beam Steering, LiDAR, & Optical Wireless Communications
Talk: Scaling Atmospheric Wireless Optical Communication via Integrated Photonic Solutions

📍 Room W211
🗓 May 21 | 10:30 AM

Featuring collaborative work from the Taara engineering team. If you’re attending CLEO, let’s connect.

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At @WebSummit, Taara CEO Mahesh Krishnaswamy joins Helen Riley, CFO of @theteamatx, for a conversation on moonshots, systematizing radical innovation, and building technologies designed for global scale.

Moderated by @FastCompany's Harry McCracken.

Join us: Dreaming Big — Talking Moonshots in 2026
📍 Stage 5 | Corporate Innovation Summit
🗓 Tuesday, May 12 @ 4:25 PM ~ 4:45 PM

https://t.co/BGAQwOAgp7

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Connectivity at the speed of light, with a footprint of zero. 🌎✨

We didn't want to leave our optical technology in space, so we brought it down to Earth. This Earth Day, we’re celebrating bringing space-age technology down to Earth without a shovel underground.

Earth Day is a good time to look at the "hidden" footprint of connectivity. Most high-speed internet travels through thousands of miles of fiber buried under the earth deployed using heavy, diesel-burning machinery.

Taara harnesses light to beam high-speed connectivity, and our Lightbridge is energy-efficient to run entirely on solar power. We’ve deployed these setups in some of the most remote regions like in the island of Anguilla below, where the grid hasn’t reached.

Connectivity shouldn't require a permanent scar on the landscape. We’re building a future that stays connected while leaving the planet as we found it. 🌿💡

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"Taara is bringing some industrial light and magic to Californian production company Cintegral," writes Giacomo Jack Lee of @sdxcentral

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From the balloon-filled skies of Albuquerque, Coachella, the U.S. Open, and New York Times Square with operators like @TMobile to now real-time production at a studio-in-a-box, laying fiber or hauling massive infrastructure into the wilderness, only to tear it down days later, is physically or economically cost prohibitive - especially for short-term events. Most recently at @MWCHub Barcelona, we all saw what happens when the spectrum hits its limit.

We're changing the script for high capacity on demand. 🎬
Fast, flexible, quick to deploy, and redeploy.

🍹 Join us at an evening reception with @lumentechco and Cintegral to learn more about innovative solutions for the media and entertainment industry. We’d love to see you there!

RSVP here: https://t.co/7qoXh0hum4

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📖 Read the full story in @thebauminator piece in @Light_Reading : https://t.co/VEwG90Prfw

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We’re not laying networks. We’re beaming them.

We are thrilled to announce Taara’s first enterprise solution in Media & Entertainment with Cintegral, bringing light-based connectivity to real-time sports, broadcast, and live production workflows. Powered by Taara Lightbridge, production teams can move high-resolution 4K and 8K video in real time across sites without laying cable, waiting on fixed infrastructure, or physically transporting media.

That means directors, editors, broadcasters, and technical crews can collaborate live from remote sets where connectivity would otherwise be a bottleneck to high-performance production workflows.

Join us at 2026 #NABShow at Booth W3101 to see the live demo and explore how light-based connectivity can transform your production workflows.

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We’re taking light as far as it can go.

Our updated visual identity is built on the same principles as our technology: direction, precision, and control.

Gradients become the system and primary carriers of light — reflecting how light connects, focuses, and scales from dawn to midnight.

This isn’t just a brand update.
It’s a reflection of the networks we’re building: connectivity that moves at the speed of light.

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Computing had silicon. Connectivity has light.

At IEEE SiPhotonics 2026, Taara SVP of Engineering Devin Brinkley will speak on how silicon photonics is enabling wireless optical communication — bringing high-capacity connectivity beyond the reach of fiber and cellular coverage.

📍 IEEE SiPhotonics 2026 | Ottawa, Canada
🗓 April 14

Let’s connect. Register here: https://t.co/JjO7QykbbQ

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In the 1930s, the Rural Electrification Act transformed America by proving that access to power was a prerequisite for modern life. Today, we are at a similar crossroads with the digital divide.

In the latest episode of @ClickHereShow with Dina Temple-Raston on the @TheRecord_Media, our founder Mahesh Krishnaswamy joins an important conversation on why expanding broadband in rural America has been wicked hard — and insights on how we can bring a more comprehensive approach to empower our communities with true digital equity. It's not about the bits and bytes: it’s about the students, workers, and communities who are reclaiming their economic future.

The episode explores how connectivity can shape individual careers, communities, and entire economic development of societies, from the perspective of a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, elected officials, and "recovering graphic designer", among others. It features the stories of Matthew Rantanen, Gigi Sohn, and their observations on how infrastructure is only as good as the lives it improves.

Tune into the full episode Almost Heaven, No Reception, in rural America here or catch it on select NPR stations this week: https://t.co/0nWQa11z8e

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When the digital divide bites back. 🛰️🦎

Our team just returned from Brazil, having deployed our first Taara link in Rio de Janeiro. Along the way we responded to an emergency request to deploy our very first Taara Beam link across a river deep in the Amazon. That's when we experienced a unique form of interference: an alligator who chomped at the base of the monopole, knocked off the unit, and tried to consume it in a single chomp.

As we scale Taara’s technology to the farthest reaches of the planet, we are constantly reminded that the most resilient systems are those that mimic nature’s adaptability. We build for the unexpected — vibrations, heat, rain — but nature always provides a new edge case.

The alligator test wasn't in our spec sheet. The future of connectivity isn't just about light; it's about building tech rugged enough to be consumed by the global environment it serves.

The good news? We recovered the hardware, the link is back up, and it's still pinging. If our tech can survive the jungles and jaws of the Amazon, it’s ready for anything.

Stay tuned as we keep pushing the limits of where light can go! ✨

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The acceleration of artificial intelligence is exposing infrastructure bottlenecks we can't dig our way out of.

Two data centers a week are being built in the U.S. alone to fuel AI's growth. The infrastructure bottleneck isn't just power or compute, it's connectivity. Data centers are massive capital investments, which don’t generate value until they’re connected to the world.

Traditional infrastructure simply can't move at the speed AI demands. But the future of networks isn’t about replacing what exists; it’s about removing the constraints that prevent them from growing.

In his latest piece for @Forbes, @sabbirrangwala dives into the demand for data "anytime, anywhere" and the massive infrastructure hurdles in the way of global digital equity. The future of the internet isn't just about speed—it’s about affordability and accessibility. Honored to see Taara's work in this space featured as a key part of this global solution approach.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/jXrcQ8JYgR

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@ofcconference was one for the books! 🛰️✨

Taara's debut at the Optical Fiber Conference exceeded every expectation. In our first year exhibiting at OFC, it was incredible to see the volume of enthusiasm and meaningful conversations around what Taara brought to the photonics industry. From people intrigued by Taara Lightbridge and Beam on display to Taara super fans who have been cheering us on our journey from @Theteamatx, it was humbling to see how much the world is excited to harvest the benefits of light-based connectivity that is truly accessible and affordable to all.

Beyond the hardware on the show floor, Taara’s technical leadership was on full display. Tymon Barwicz's talk on integrated optical phased arrays and Devin Brinkley's chairing session on terrestrial free space optics underscored our commitment to driving the photonics innovation forward.

Special thanks to Jim Carroll of @ConvergeDigest, Keely Portway of Fiber Systems, Jake Silverman of @Bloomberg, Jake Saltzman of @PhotonicsMedia, and Jose Pozo of @OpticaWorldwide for the briefings and insightful coverage of our latest milestones.

Finally, a warm welcome to Taara's newest photonics engineer who joined the mission this week: Xiaoguang He. The future of light-based connectivity is bright. ✨

Mahesh Krishnaswamy, Devin Brinkley, Tymon Barwicz, Michael Caverley, Ellie Joo