• @[email protected]
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    213 days ago

    (the news source looks good and worth visiting BTW)

    An international team in Japan has set a new record for the fastest internet speed at a blazing 402 terabits per second (Tb/s).

    The staggering number is hard to put into perspective. Compared to the average U.S. broadband speeds of around 226 megabits per second, it’s over 1.5 million times faster.

    For example, a video game released in 2021, “Call of Duty: Vanguard,” is 170 gigabytes large. With an internet speed of 402 Tb/s, the game would be downloaded in 3 milliseconds. This speed is faster than a blink of an eye — over 3,000% faster.

    Back in March, scientists in the United Kingdom set the previous world record for internet speed clocking in at 301 Tb/s. Researchers have increased the speed by over 25% in just a few short months.

    Speeds like this are only possible using a fiber optic connection utilizing a multitude of new and different wavelengths to send data across the fiber system. These fiber optic systems will be a technology that will allow “Beyond 5G” information services to work faster than ever, and the technology is expected to become more commonly seen.

  • palordrolap
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    43 days ago

    What exactly is sending and receiving over such a link?

    That has to be be a large amount of expensive fast RAM in the computers at either end trying to keep up with that.

    Consumer-grade hardware is an order of magnitude slower, even for the good stuff.

    • Chainweasel
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      123 days ago

      It’s more to carry the load of multiple computers, instead of one computer connecting at 400 Tb/s think of it as a few thousand computers running gigabit connections over one single line.
      You could supply an entire office building with internet with a single line from the provider.