Lasers + Software with Aalyria's Brian Barritt

The startup is promising the world, and then some, with two products to its name: Spacetime & Tightbeam. We bring Aalyria CTO Brian Barritt on the show this week to dig into the startup's vision.

*CHAPTERS*

0:00 — Live intro
0:34 — Aalyria has just emerged from stealth
4:17 — Brian's background
9:03 — Spacetime & Tightbeam
14:00 — Demoing the laser
18:41 — Air to ground, space to ground, ground to ground
20:15 — Acquiring Alphabet's tech & going independent 
24:14 — Why now? 
30:31 — Potential deep space applications 
33:35 — What's derisked? And what's not?
38:40 — Commercial viability 
43:29 — End of show Qs ... including the one we've all been dying to know Is Aalyria worried about aliens piggybacking off of its laser beams?

*SHOW NOTES*

Brian's Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianbarritt?lang=en

Aalyria's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AalyriaTech

Company website: https://www.aalyria.com/ (head here for more on Spacetime & Tightbeam)

Ryan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ryandoofy

*DESCRIPTIONS*

Spacetime description: "Spacetime is a software platform for orchestrating networks of ground stations, aircraft, satellites, ships, and urban meshes. It optimizes and continually evolves the antenna link scheduling, network traffic routing, and spectrum resources — responding in realtime to changing network requirements. Spacetime operates networks across land, sea, air, and space, at any altitude or orbit type, supports all radio frequency bands and optical wavelengths, and it is designed for interoperability with legacy, hybrid space, 5G NTN and FutureG network architectures."

Tightbeam description: "Tightbeam is the world's most advanced coherent light free space optics technology. At rates faster than any other solutions available today and covering greater distances than previously imagined, it moves data intact through the atmosphere and weather, and offers connectivity where no supporting infrastructure exists. Tightbeam radically improves satellite communications, Wi-Fi on planes and ships, and cellular connectivity everywhere."

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