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Project · 2024RETIRED

Brigaid Networks

A high-speed data transfer network using free-space optical communications with applications in telecoms and defence.

What I wanted to do

Explore whether free-space optical communication could provide useful high-speed links in constrained telecom settings.

What I actually built

A venture, technical prototype direction and a body of work developed through NDRC and NovaUCD accelerator programmes.

What happened

Retired as a company direction.

What survived

  • Infrastructure thinking.
  • Regulatory and institutional constraints.
  • Building under uncertainty.
  • A preference for mechanisms that can survive contact with the world.