Deep-tech startup Astrome deploys E-band radio for internet connectivity in rural Karnataka

Bangalore primarily based deep-tech startup Astrome on Monday mentioned it had deployed the primary indigenously developed E-band radio to offer inexpensive web connectivity in rural elements of Karnataka. The GigaMesh, which makes use of millimetre wave radio frequencies, was deployed from Sompura gram panchayat to Nidavanda village in rural Bangalore district to facilitate 4G and 5G connectivity, Astrome Technologies founder and CEO Neha Satak mentioned.

GigaMesh is an E-band radio, with Multiple-Point-to-Point (Multi-P2P) communication, making it the simplest solution to distribute fiber capability, wirelessly, he mentioned.

“Through this, we have managed to bring high speed connectivity to Nidavanda village and are looking forward to more such successful deployments in the future,” the Astrome CEO mentioned.

In phrases of applicability, a single GigaMesh at a Gram Panchayat in Rural India, can connect with a number of surrounding villages, thus offering a major price benefit, an organization assertion mentioned.
BharatNet fiber was linked to GigaMesh on the Gram Panchayat and wirelessly transmitted to a different GigaMesh machine which was positioned at a authorities college at Nidavanda, it mentioned.

The web offered on the college was successfully utilized to offer on-line instructional periods to the scholars from the lecturers of a Bangalore primarily based NGO, E-Vidyaloka, the assertion mentioned.

Astrome was awarded a contract to facilitate broadband, 4G and 5G web connectivity in rural areas via BharatNet fiber.

The undertaking was awarded by Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).

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