Japan broke the internet speed record with a number of 319 Tbps

The need for speed on the internet has never been bigger than before, and not only because of streaming video or streaming games. From mass video conferences to real-time collaboration on multimedia projects, most of the people today have depend on the internet. While network operators and operators push 5G and WiFi 6 to the front, computer scientists and engineers are setting their views on greater numbers, the numbers in which the Institute of Information Technology and Japanese National Communication or NICT only set records.

Last year, internet transfer speeds were faster achieved through collaboration between Britain and Japan. They could reach 178 Tbps which was astonishing on August 2020, but now it has been defeated by NICT achievement. Almost doubling the number, the world record for the fastest internet data transfer speed is 319 TB / s.

Of course, they don’t reach that number without hard work, and NICT must innovate at each data transmission pipe level. It starts with a four core optical fiber cable that maintains the same size as a standard single core fiber. Then use a 552 channel comb that fires a laser with a different wavelength through amplifiers consisting of rare earth minerals. In other words, that does not mean cheap experiments.

NICT must do all that in the controlled lab settings, of course, and they do not have the real world environmental elements they have. To simulate a distance of 3,001 km, for example, the researchers must wrap the optical fiber cable around. It also results in no degradation of signal quality or speed when data flows through the cable.

Needless to say, you will not see this technology implemented in the real world in the near future. The cost of this arrangement has only been illibutive, and technology will benefit more internet backbones than other applications. That said, increasing the backbone will also benefit even consumers in the long run, especially when 6G finally started.