Japan sets a new internet speed record with a connection of 1.02 petabits per second

Although in our country we are still seeing the first tests for the installation of an Internet line of up to 10 GB in our homes, it seems that Japan is not only a few gigabytes ahead of us, but of the whole world. And it is that Japan has just broken a new record reaching for the first time a connection with a speed 100,000 times faster than the current standard.

This has been shared by the Network Research Institute of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), which reported on May 30 that it had successfully demonstrated the world’s first internet transmission speed of 1.02 petabit per second on a multi-core fiber (MCF). Specifically, the Petabit (simplified as PB) refers to the data unit after the Terabit, equivalent to a total of no less than 1,000 TB or 1,000,000 GB.

As an example, with this connection power of 1 petabit per second, we could load up to 10 million 8K streaming channels per second, making live Internet coverage easily achievable from all corners of the world with virtually no interruption. And it is that traveling at a speed equivalent to traveling at more than 32 miles per second (about 185,396 kilometers per hour), we could soon start sending 127,500 GB of data per second.

Despite sounding like science fiction, it is worth mentioning that this It has not been the first time that researchers have tried and achieved this speed one petabit per second. Already during the last celebration of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (held during the past summer), the technology giant Intel broadcast live coverage of 19 days of the event to Brazil, Japan and Intel sites in the US using this technology. .

As global content technology strategist and 8K leader at Intel Ravindra “Ravi” Vehal stated: «We are well beyond proof of concept«. That said, we are still far from being able to implement this technology in a common way for users, although it certainly sets a new milestone and a new goal for the future of the world’s largest communication network.