Women-led startup Astrome develops low-cost Internet services

New Delhi, March 29: Reaching internet access to remote places is very difficult one of the aspects is that laying fiber is too expensive. However, in a bid to provide low-cost Internet services to suburban and rural areas, a women-led startup company Astrome has developed an innovative wireless product, called Giga Mesh that gives fiber-like bandwidth at a fraction of the cost of fiber.

 

Giga Mesh could enable telecom operators to deploy quality, high-speed rural telecom infrastructure at five times lower cost. According to the Ministry of Science & Technology, currently available, wireless backhaul products either do not provide sufficient data speeds or the required range or are very expensive to deploy.

 

 

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 such as automatic link alignment, dynamic power allocation between links, and remote link formation help operators achieve significant operating expenditure cost reduction.

 

 

 

Dr. Neha Satak, co-founder and chief executive officer at Astrome, said, “Indian Institute of Science played a very critical role by helping us connect with investors, providing business mentorship, and giving us space to conduct our product field trials.

 

Astrome also received the ITU SME Award for the Most Promising Innovative Solution in Connectivity, a major recognition for this product from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). They also got selected by a prestigious 5G accelerator program called Evo Nexus (sponsored by Qualcomm) which will help them launch their product in the global market."

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