LogInThe future could be much faster than we think.
Japanese scientists have achieved a jaw-dropping milestone by reaching internet speeds of over 402Tbps, a speed so fast that it would allow any game to be downloaded in less than a second.
This was accomplished by a team at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), as reported by Fudzilla. The team used commercially available optical fibers and signal amplifiers over a 50 km distance, rather than any high-technology lab equipment. With an estimated peak rate of 402 Tb/s, this speed is approximately 25% higher than the previous record set in October of the previous year.
This translates to a data rate roughly 1.6 million times faster than the average broadband speed in the US, all achieved using commercially available optical fiber. NICT stated:
“The newly developed technology is expected to make a significant contribution to expanding the communication capacity of the optical communication infrastructure as future data services rapidly increase demand."