Worlds fastest Internet speed
The record, described in a research paper published in the journal IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, has twice the capacity of any system currently deployed in the world.
UK scientists claim to have achieved the world’s fastest Internet data transmission rate, a speed that allows the entire Netflix library to be downloaded in less than a second.
Researchers at University College London (UCL) in Britain achieved a data transmission rate of 178 terabytes five times faster than previous records.
The record, described in a research paper published in the journal IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, has twice the capacity of any system currently deployed in the world.
How did they do it?
Researchers said that this is done by transmitting data through a wide range of colors of light, or wavelengths commonly used in optical fibers.
They added various amplifier technologies needed to increase signal strength over this broad bandwidth and increased maximum speed by developing new geometric shape (GS) constellations, manipulating the properties of each individual wavelength.
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GS constellations are patterns of signal combinations that best utilize the phase, brightness, and polarization properties of light.
Can it be implemented?
The researchers said the technology has the advantage that it can be deployed effectively at the cost of pre-existing infrastructure, by upgrading amplifiers located on optical fiber routes at intervals of 40–100 km.
The researchers said that the new record displayed in a laboratory is a fifth faster than the previous world record held by a team in Japan.
He said that at this speed, it would take less than an hour to download the data that created the world’s first image of a black hole.
According to the researchers, this speed is close to the theoretical limit of data transmission set by the American mathematician Claude Shannon in 1949.
Currently, state-of-the-art cloud data-center interconnections are capable of transporting 35 terabytes in a second, we’re working with new technologies that use existing infrastructure more efficiently
lead author Lydia Galdino, a lecturer Said UCL and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow.
Galdino said that these technologies make better use of optical fiber bandwidth, enabling a world record transmission rate of 178 terabytes (TB).