Here is the original (and technical) article published by company. …
The system, named the RU1, was unveiled today by Swedish startup TERASi. It’s billed as the world’s smallest and lightest mm-Wave radio, a form of communications that offers blazing-fast speeds and huge bandwidth.
James Campion, the CEO and co-founder of TERASi, describes the portable device as “the GoPro of backhaul radios.”
“RU1 can be deployed in minutes to keep units connected in fast-changing environments,” Campion told TNW. The devices, he continued, can be installed on tripods or drones. Multiple RU1s can then link into a resilient mesh, providing bandwidth for mission-critical applications such as live drone video, autonomous fleet control, and sensor data fusion.
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Tldr it’s a mesh router and not a starlink competitor at all. More like a Link-16 alternative I guess
The articles don’t say much besides the usual “next-level connectivity” BS. I still don’t really know what it actually does. Is it cellular? Or satellite based? Or fiber? Its gotta source the connection from somewhere.
Just a router?
It says right there in the thumbnail: it’s mm-wave radio. They’re radios that talk to each other and form a mesh network.
3km range-extending mesh. Good if your application can stay inside the bubble. If you need to go outside, though, you’ll need some other way.
With >60GHz frequency and very narrow beams from antennas. If you have suitable conditions that seems like pretty decent piece of technology, but that’s not going to penetrate anything, so line-of-sight is practically required.
And that’s very fundamentally different than starlink. Unifi Device Bridge or Mikrotik Cube are similar devices. Think your home wifi router on stereoids instead of internet connectivity from the sky.
Seems a bit like small cell towers on drones. With few dozen drones, you can likely get a pretty decent range.
It probably only makes sense in military and in desaster relief (e.g. after an earthquake when power and cell towers are interrupted).
Awful, misleading, clickbait headline.
Genuinely baffling name for a product being marketed for Military applications. “Buy the Russia #1 for your sensitive tactical communications!”
