CENTAURI · Transcelestial
An engineer installing a CENTAURI terminal on a rooftop mast.

Flagship platform  //  Terrestrial free-space optics

Centauri

Carrier-grade wireless laser links at 10 and 25 Gbps. Fibre throughput, deployed in hours, with no trenching and no spectrum fees.

300+

Km of laser networks
deployed

1.8

Tbps carried
live, every day

10+

Telcos running
live on the network

30+

Countries
deployed

CENTAURI 10G and 25G terminals

CENTAURI 10G terminal. CENTAURI 25G terminal.

Common gimbal & sub-milliradian tracking platform

Commercially deployed in 30+ countries

CENTAURI transmits eye-safe, coherent laser beams through open air, replacing the cost, permits and trenching delays of buried fibre with a link that goes live the same day, at wire-speed and sub-millisecond latency.

Throughput
10 Gbps & 25 Gbps, full duplex
Range
Up to 3 km, line of sight
Deploy time
Under 3 hours, zero trenching
Licence cost
$0, unlicensed infrared

How free-space optics works

Six pieces of optical physics that let a beam of light do the job of a buried cable, in heat, wind and monsoon rain.

TX DOUBLETAPD RX 1550 nm COLLIMATED

1550 nm

Free-space optics

A coherent infrared beam collimated through a transmit doublet, crossing open air with no glass core to slow it, focused onto a high-speed APD receiver.

MICROWAVE0.8E-BAND RF0.4CENTAURI FSO10.0HEAVY RAINGbps SUSTAINED

193 THz

Wire speed in rain

Microwave and 80 GHz E-band fade hard in rain and compete for crowded spectrum. At 193 THz, CENTAURI holds wire-speed throughput in the same downpour.

FIXED MASTWIND SWAY · THERMAL DRIFTCLOSED-LOOP GIMBAL, ±0.1 mrad

<0.1 mrad

Active beam tracking

Rooftops and towers sway in wind and swell with the sun. Closed-loop motorised gimbals steer the beam continuously to keep the link locked.

TXAPERTURE AVERAGING SPATIAL DIVERSITY, MULTI-BEAM

Multi-beam

Scintillation mitigation

Hot air refracts light. Spatial diversity across multiple beams, with aperture averaging, removes the packet loss that heat shimmer causes.

RF SPILLS IN EVERY DIRECTIONANY RECEIVER IN THE LOBE HEARS ITOPTICAL: NOTHING LEAVES THE LINE

Zero RF

Physically secure

Milliradian divergence makes side-lobe sniffing impossible, and there is no radio signal for a jammer to touch.

80 CHANNELS ONE PATH DENSE WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

80 λ

Terabit scalable

Dense wavelength-division multiplexing stacks up to 80 optical channels into one path, scaling a single link to multiple terabits.

Reliable & resilient

99.999% availability

Telco grade, carrier SLA

Ten or more carriers and ISPs run live traffic on CENTAURI across 30+ countries, at five nines measured under monsoon conditions. 10G backhaul with CPRI and eCPRI fronthaul, on the SLA your customers already signed.

Propagation delay

Faster than fibre.
Literally.

Light in open air travels at the speed of light. Silica fibre slows it by its refractive index of 1.468. On a trading corridor, that gap decides who fills the order.

Cost to connect

80% cheaper
than fibre.

Trenching means civil works, right of way and municipal permits. A CENTAURI pair mounts on two rooftops and carries the same traffic, with no spectrum fee and nothing buried.

Deploy fiber-grade lasers without fiber

Talk to our optical engineering team about link feasibility and a site survey.

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