Taara Beam unlocks 25Gbps city links with invisible light beams

Alphabet-backed Taara unveils Taara Beam, a shoebox-sized device that delivers up to 25Gbps over line-of-sight invisible light for city-wide middle-mile links, mountable on poles or rooftops and capable of deployment in hours with about 90W draw. It matches fiber in throughput but offers ultra-low latency (<100 μs) and is aimed at enterprises and telcos rather than consumers. Use cases include offloading lidar/sensor data from EVs and building high-speed V2X mesh networks. Taara Beam is set to surface at Mobile World Congress 2026.