And there's more detail here .. https://theconversation.com/internet-traffic-is-growing-25-each-year-we-created-a-fingernail-sized-chip-that-can-help-the-nbn-keep-up-138620
> Australians Record World’s Fastest Internet Speed At 44.2 Tbps > > By Charanjeet Singh - May 22, 2020 > https://fossbytes.com/australians-record-worlds-fastest-internet-speed-at-44-2-tbps/ > > > A group of researchers in Australia claim to have recorded the world’s > fastest internet speed of 44.2 terabits per second (Tbps), and achieved over > standard fibre, using a single integrated chip source. > > https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16265-x > > The remarkable feat was achieved by researchers from Monash, Swinburne, and > RMIT universities. > > With a speed of 44.2 Tbps, you can download more than 50 100GB Blu-ray > movies in a mere 1 second. The extraordinary network speed would also end > the concept of “buffering” in streaming services altogether. To put it in > perspective, India has an average internet speed between 25 Mbps – 50 Mbps. > And the highest recorded average network speed is currently 193 Mbps in > Singapore. > > How researchers recorded the world’s fastest internet speed? > > Researchers were able to achieve the extraordinary speed with a micro-comb > chip: An optical device that generates very sharp and equidistant frequency > lines in a tiny microphotonic chip. The exchange of information over fiber > relies on laser lights. However, this device replaces multiple lasers. > > The team, calling it the first field trial of the tech, placed the > micro-comb chip within the optic fiber cables that ran between RMIT’s campus > and Monash campus. And this helped them to record the world’s fastest > internet speed. > > According to the researchers, the fiber cable network mirrors the one used > by Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN). > > Since the feat was achieved over the standard fiber using a single > integrated chip source, they believe that the tech has the potential to be > integrated with the current fiber infrastructure as well. > > RMIT’s Professor Arnan Mitchell says, “In long-term, we hope to create > integrated photonic chips that could enable this sort of data rate to be > achieved across existing optical fiber links with minimal cost.” > > The breakthrough has the potential to become the backbone of the world > getting faster internet speeds. And not just for watching movies or surfing > the Internet, it has the potential in the autonomous vehicles industry, > gaming industry, medical fields, and more. > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
