{"id":18340,"date":"2021-03-29T19:16:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=18340"},"modified":"2021-03-29T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:46:04","slug":"a-women-led-startup-develops-deep-tech-for-reliable-low-cost-internet-services-to-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=18340","title":{"rendered":"A women-led startup develops deep-tech for reliable low-cost internet services to rural areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center\">\n<h2>A women-led startup develops deep-tech for reliable low-cost internet services to rural areas<br \/>\n<span id=\"ContentPlaceHolder1_ltrSubtitle\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\"><\/div>\n<p>Astrome, a women-led startup,\u00a0has developed an innovative wireless product that gives fibre like bandwidth\u00a0at fraction of cost of fibre to help telecom operators deliver reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wireless product called Giga Mesh could\u00a0enable telecom operators deploy quality, high-speed rural telecom infrastructure at 5 times lower cost. Rural connectivity customers and defence customers who have already signed up for pilots will soon witness the demonstration of this product by Astrome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The deep tech startup incubated at the\u00a0<strong>Indian Institute of Science<\/strong>\u00a0(IISc), Bangalore, and supported by\u00a0<strong>DST-ABI<\/strong>\u00a0Woman Startup Program of the\u00a0<strong>Department of Science and Technology<\/strong>\u00a0(DST), Government of India\u00a0proved their\u00a0<strong>millimeter-wave multi-beam technology<\/strong>\u00a0in the lab in\u00a02018, for which the company has been granted a patent in India and US. Since then, the technology has been converted to a powerful and scalable product called\u00a0<strong>Giga Mesh<\/strong>, which can solve much of the last mile connectivity telecom needs of our country. The product has been proven on the field and also integrated with partner products for its upcoming\u00a0commercialization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Indian Institute of Science<\/strong>\u00a0played a very critical role by helping us connect with investors, providing business mentorship, and giving us space to conduct our product field trials,\u201d said Dr. Neha Satak,\u00a0Co-founder &amp; CEO at Astrome, while recalling a weeklong trip\u00a0organized under the DST-ABI woman startup initiative which provided her with valuable inputs from the US VC ecosystem to prepare for the launch in the US market.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Multi-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\u00a0operating expenditure\u00a0cost reduction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Astrome is currently conducting a field trial at Indian Institute of Science (university campus). In this field trial, the company has already achieved data streaming at multi-Gbps speeds across the campus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For more details,\u00a0<strong>Dr. Neha Satak<\/strong>\u00a0(neha@astrome.co) can be contacted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image001I81X.jpg\" alt=\"Description: C:\\Users\\Admin\\Downloads\\IMG_8378.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Astome\u2019s CEO and Director of Engineering receiving IEEE Technology Startup Award 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A women-led startup develops deep-tech for reliable low-cost internet services to rural areas Astrome, a women-led startup,\u00a0has developed an innovative wireless product that gives fibre like bandwidth\u00a0at fraction of cost of fibre to help telecom operators deliver reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas. &nbsp; Reaching internet access to remote places in countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18341,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions\/18341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}