Taara, a Google moonshot spin-out, seeks scale for its fiber-over-the-air platform

Taara, a Google X spin-out that delivers blistering data speeds via its free space optics platform, has enjoyed some success in the early going, touting deployments with fiber and mobile operators in more than a dozen countries. Taara, which initially has focused on the middle-mile market and intends to pursue the last-mile connectivity arena, hopes to scale up its reach with operators even further following a new value-added reseller deal with Colorado-based Digicomm International. Digicomm's partnership with Taara will primarily focus on the North American market. However, the company sells and distributes wireline and wireless broadband equipment to service providers around the globe. Taara's technology is a "perfect complement to our extensive wireless, HFC and FTTX offerings," said Jennifer Nelson, FTTx and wireless sales leader at Digicomm.