Women-led startup develops wireless product ‘Giga Mesh’ for reliable low-cost internet services to rural areas

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Bengaluru-based women-led startup, Astrome, has developed an innovative wireless product called Giga Mesh, that can provide reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas.
The Giga Mesh is a wireless product with the ability to provide quality, high-speed rural telecom infrastructure at 5 times lower cost. It will give fibre like bandwidth at fraction of cost of fibre.
This product may prove to be boon for the rural areas as providing internet access at remote places is difficult because laying fibre is too expensive. Besides, the currently available wireless backhaul products either do not provide sufficient data speeds or the required range, or are very expensive to deploy.
Astrome is a deep tech startup incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and supported by DST-ABI Woman Startup Program of the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
The team was led by Dr. Neha Satak, co-founder and chief executive officer at Astrome.