TRANSCELESTIAL

Solving Civilization’s

Long Term
Communication
Needs

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Who We Are

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Transcelestial Team
Management No Ordinary Team

Rohit Jha Industry leading engineers from 10+

countries, many PhD and Masters in their
CEO & Co-Founder
disciplines from the world's best universities.

• High speed Electronics

• Advanced Precision Control

• Mechatronics
Dr. Mohammad Danesh • Precision optics & Photonics
CTO & Co-Founder
• Critical Optics for Defence & Space

• Scaled Manufacturing

• Computer Vision & Neural Network

Bill Padfield
Non Exec Board Director
Experienced Industry executives across,
Sales, Product, Finance, Channels

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Investor Confidence
Total fund raised since Dec 2016 - US$ 14M

Deep Tech
V.C.

Government
Investors

Michael Seibel
Charlie Songhurst
Key Angels CEO, Y-Combinator
Ex-Head of Corp, Microsoft
Co-Founder, Twitch & SocialCam

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Extensive Partner Network

Philippines, India, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia,

Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia Indonesia APAC Malaysia

Hong Kong Taiwan Philippines Singapore

India Mongolia UAE South Africa

Indonesia Indonesia

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CENTAURI Benefits
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Introducing Up to10Gbps Up to 3 km
Full Duplex Consistent Reliably under Equatorial Region P rain
CENTAURI Data Rate conditions

• Throughput - 10Gbps full

duplex
Impossible to hack Spectrum
Range - 200m to 3Kms
or jam Independence
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• Availability - up to 99.999%
depending on rain zone

• RTD <25us.

Fastest Time to Reliable 10Gbps

Market throughput

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Quality
• CENTAURI is fully built, assembled and tested in Singapore

• CENTAURI built in a ISO9001 Certified, semi-automated precision

manufacturing production line with up to 2000 total annual capacity

• CENTAURI meets or exceeds rigorous standards for transport, storage,

and deployment. IP65 certified for environmental durability and
reliability.

CB GENERAL EMC LASER

SAFETY ELECTRICAL SAFETY
SAFETY
EN IEC 61000-3-2:2019 IEC/EN 60825-1
IEC 62368-1:2014
FCC 47 CFR Part 15B:2019

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Centauri Benefits Over Fibre
Fibre Challenges CENTAURI Benefits

Long Time to deploy Quick ½ day to deploy

High Costs - From $15,000/Km Cost effective

Right of Way, Terrain No right of way required

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Centauri Benefits Over Radio
Radio Challenges CENTAURI Benefits

Spectrum Congestion Not impacted by Spectrum Congestion

Requires Regulatory approvals No Regulatory approvals

Low Security Highly Secure

Limited Future Capacity Extensive Future Capacity

Suffers from throughput throttling Line rate throughput

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Total cost of ownership - Fiber

Direct burial Underground duct Over the pole

CAPEX OPEX
1. Cost per meter of fiber 1. Monthly cost of sq meter of ground (right of way)
2. Cost per meter of ducting 2. Monthly cost of pole/tower rental
3. Cost per meter of trenching 3. Monthly cost of electricity
4. Cost of fiber ducting machine 4. Monthly cost of building rental (premises or rooftop)
5. Repair costs due to fiber cutting 5. Daily cost of workforce hired
6. Import tax on equipment 6. Insurance costs of on-site & warehouse materials
7. Cost of one-time electricity tap 7. Delayed client billing due to delayed rollout
8. Cost of site survey
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Total cost of ownership - Centauri
10Gbps
CAPEX
1. Cost per meter of fiber
2. Cost per meter of ducting
3. Cost per meter of trenching
4. Cost fiber ducting machine
5. Repair costs due to fiber cut
6. Import tax on equipment
7. Cost of one-time electricity tap
8. Cost of site survey
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OPEX
1. Monthly cost of sq meter of ground (right of way)
2. Monthly cost of pole/tower rental
3. Monthly cost of electricity
4. Monthly cost of building rental (premises or rooftop)
5. Daily cost of workforce hired
6. Insurance costs of on-site & warehouse materials
7. Delayed client billing due to delayed rollout
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Use Cases
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Typical Urban Use Case
5G

Core 5G

DC or Edge Enterprise
Exchange DC Client

Traditional fibre Traditional fibre

CAPEX + OPEX intensive CAPEX + OPEX intensive
Optical
Network

fibre-like 100% Rapid

5G Backbone Secure Client
Transcelest Setup
ial CENTAURI
10Gbps
Core
DC or Edge Enterprise
Exchange DC Client

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 Mesh Backbone & Access Fibre Backbone & Access

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ISP Completing Fibre ring with
Use Cases CENTAURI

• Ring Backbone &

Residential
Access Building

• Mesh & Access House

House Corporate
Building

Benefits
Backbone ring
• Operators can build with CENTAURI
10Gbps Infrastructure Residential
Industrial Building
in days.
Plants
Water Tank
• Capture market share
and start generating
additional revenue.
Single Pole
• 2000 homes @$20 Corporate
translates to $140K. Building
Tower
Centauri RoI < 1
month.

LASER RF LASER Fibre

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 Fronthaul and Backhaul

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Mobile
Operator
Use Cases
• 5G Fronthaul
• 4G/5G Backhaul
• Private 5G

Benefits
• Lightweight device, can be easily
redeployed to new locations
• Enables quick time to market for
Mobile operator, and to start
generating revenue quickly.
• Exceeds eCPRI requirements of
packet delay variations of < 100nsec,
and round trip latency of <25usec
over 3Kms link.

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 Backup and Dark Fibre
Alternative

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Enterprise
Use Cases Backup Link - CENTAURI Primary Link - CENTAURI (Dark Fibre Alternative)

• Large Campus Networks

• Fiber Backup
• Dark Fiber or Leased Line
Alternative
• Disaster Recovery
Benefits
• Rapid deployment allows
organisations to realise
communications quickly.
Primary Link - Fibre
Disaster Recovery Large Campus Networks
In disaster scenario primary
Build Private network
communications are down.
across the campus,
without digging for Fibre
Rapid Deploy Communications
Infrastructure using CENTAURI

• Deployment on rooftops, Tripod

requires no disruption to
existing environments.
• CENTAURI not affected by
congested RF spectrum, Street Pole
requires no right of way
approvals.

LASER Fibre 17
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Camps, Forward Deployments and Difficult Terrain
Defence
Use Cases
• Camps
• Forward Deployments
• Difficult Terrain

Benefits Difficult Terrain

• Establish high speed secure Forward Deployment

and jam proof communications Military Camp

quickly.
• Lightweight, and tripod mount
design allows man portable
deployments
• Low power consumption allows
Forward Deployment
truck mounted deployments
• Private secure 5G within camps
with secure backhaul

LASER

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CENTAURI In Action
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Class-leading performance
CENTAURI
Features
AI-powered Alignment & Tracking

Software Guided Deployment

Intelligent Window Heating

Installation time

Centauri - 1-4 hours

Microwave - 2 days SNMP to Monitor at Scale
Fiber - A few months

Streaming Telemetry

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Weather Performance
TYPHOON KAMMURI
(Philippines) Dec 2019
Wind Speed up to 220 km/h

TYPHOON SOULIK (SEOUL) Q3 2018

Wind Speed up to 209 km/h

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 Deployments

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What’s Next
 • Business growing organically and fast

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• Mature and balanced approach to product
Transcelestial Journey development, team expansion and
commercial success

Gen 2 1Gbps Launch.

Transcelestial +10 Commercial
1G - Q2 2019
Founded Trials
Series A Q3 2021
Phase 1 Manufacturing.
Gen 1 Prototype Q2 2020
Commercial Trials Start
1G - Q1 2018

Dec 2016
1st Trial: Gen 2 10Gbps Production
SK Telecom Launch Scaling
Q2 2017
Q2 2018 Q1 2020 Q4 2020
5 Employees
Q4 2021
• 45 Employees
Q1 2019
• Transcelestial Partner
15 Employees
Program launched
• 20 partners
onboarded
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The Global Internet Distribution Problem

Last Mile Inter-City Intercontinental

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Space

Move the global

backbone from
undersea to space

- 700+ Micro Satellites

- Connected in a Laser
Mesh
- Low-Earth Orbit
(<1,000km)
- Augment Undersea &
Inter-City Cable
Connectivity

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 Get in Touch
Faith Tng, Marketing & Partnerships
faith.tng@transcelestial.com