(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.
Cries in Australian internet. Tears fill the pits. Network connection error.
I’m pretty sure the WJET/WFXP tag on the front of the article means it’s a reprint of an article originally written by the Fox TV affiliate for Erie, Pennsylvania, so yeah this is like a content mill husk that most for-profit local news in America has turned into being regurgitated by a source somehow even more soulless and predatory
Anyway, mirror link - https://web.archive.org/web/20240705144933/https://www.yourerie.com/technology/japan-sets-world-record-for-the-fastest-internet-speed-ever/
Eh I’m happy enough with my gbps internet. Australian Internet has come a long way since 2011.
Could be worse, this could be America where I’m trapped into one provider who doesn’t offer a good deal.
rupert quality
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.
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.Think more like backbone, a bunch of sources and requests all getting there faster.
Now they need to design an ssd that just shotguns the data to the disk at Mach 1.
