Our ongoing mission is to enable and accelerate deployment of fast, reliable, and affordable internet access around the world, fueling healthy competition in established broadband markets and closing the global digital divide wherever it persists — and sooner than previously thought possible.
Through fast deployment and unparalleled performance, our next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform is enabling operators to efficiently deliver high-speed broadband service to communities all over the globe.
Our ongoing mission is to enable and accelerate deployment of fast, reliable, and affordable internet access around the world, fueling healthy competition in established broadband markets and closing the global digital divide wherever it persists — and sooner than previously thought possible.
Through fast deployment and unparalleled performance, our next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform is enabling operators to efficiently deliver high-speed broadband service to communities all over the globe.
The World’s Continuing Digital Divide Challenges
One quarter of today’s world lives without access to any broadband service at all, and half of the rest is underserved, given average speeds often well below the 100 Mbps threshold for what constitutes adequate broadband service today. In addition to these basic availability and speed issues, many areas are dominated by a single service provider, often yielding the higher prices and unsatisfying customer experiences that travel along with monopolized markets.
Fiber delivers great speeds but is often prohibitively costly and slow to deploy.
Mobile networks serve smartphones well but rarely have the capacity to support many active households, which each consume ~50x more traffic than a single smartphone user.
Traditional fixed wireless access (FWA) networks based on indoor Wi-Fi tech are easy to deploy, but are severely limited by obstructions and unlicensed interference at scale.
LEO satellite networks are excellent for remote locations without infrastructure, but will not have (even when fully deployed) enough capacity to serve mainstream markets.
The Solution
ngFWA: Next Generation Fixed Wireless Access
ngFWA is a field-proven technology built from the ground up to deliver reliable residential broadband. Overcoming multiple long-battled industry challenges, ngFWA provides affordable, fiber-class service with the deployment ease of wireless technology.
Recognizing the scale of the opportunity to address persistent industry challenges in 2009, Tarana’s founders embarked on a mission to design and develop an entirely new wireless broadband technology from scratch. After a decade of R&D and over $400M of investment, enter ngFWA — the next generation of fixed wireless access.
ngFWA overcomes previously insurmountable technology challenges such as radio interference cancellation and reliable connectivity despite physical obstructions, like buildings or trees, amid the wireless link.
For the first time in the broadband industry, ngFWA delivers a truly unique combination of reliable, fiber-class connectivity with the deployment ease of wireless technology. Our ngFWA platform is the world’s first instance of ngFWA.
Why It Matters
Closing the digital divide is ever more urgent, as modes of work, education, commerce, health care, and entertainment are increasingly dependent on great connectivity. With an unprecedented amount of government funding allocated to the cause, now is the time to reach the underserved across the globe. Entire communities still on the wrong side of the digital divide are at risk of being permanently left behind.
Historically, consensus has been fiber is the only long-term solution to home broadband despite often prohibitive cost and time to deploy. At times however, technology can deliver all-new possibilities and the arrival of ngFWA is one of those moments. To close the digital divide once and for all, a right-tool-for-the-right-job approach is critical, and our ISP customers are proving that ngFWA is a desperately needed new tool in the broadband access toolbox.
