Bengaluru’s Astrome Technologies bags ITU award for rural broadband & 5G tech

BENGALURU: Astrome Technologies, a city-based startup, has won the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Virtual Digital World SME award for the most promising innovative solution in connectivity. The firm is incubated at the Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) Society for Innovation and Development (SID).

Astrome won the award for its Gigamesh wireless-fibre product that accelerates the deployment of 5G and rural broadband infrastructure.

Astrome has pioneered a multi-beam E-band product, GigaMesh, that packs six point-to-point E-band radios in one thereby distributing the cost of the device over multiple links.