With a 319 Tbps data transfer, Japan officially broke the internet speed record, coming in almost twice as fast as the 179 Tbps a team of British and Japanese researchers managed in August 2020.
It was first reported by Motherboard.
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) upgraded each pipeline stage with the fiber optic line, having four cores instead of one. The team also fired a 552-channel comb laser at multiple wavelengths with rare earth amplifiers assistance.
“The 4-core [multi-core fibers] with standard cladding diameter is attractive for early adoption of [space division multiplexing] fibers in high-throughput, long-distance links, since it is compatible with conventional cable infrastructure and expected to have mechanical reliability comparable to single-mode fibers,” NICT said in a paper about the experiment.
The experiment had researchers use coiled fiber to transfer data at a 1,864-mile distance without losing signal quality or speed.
NICT researchers believe that their next-gen fiber-making technologies ‘beyond 5G,’ such as 6G, will be more practical than the current tech. According to them, will notice the benefits simply by moving to faster internet access that does not lag when multiple users are on it.
Because the system is expensive, people are more likely to see it with major networking companies where the capacity and quality of the network matter more than cost, they have said.
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