Japan sets a new internet speed record - 1.02 petabits per second
Japan is not just a few gigabytes ahead of us; it is ahead of the entire world. And it is that Japan has just set a new record by connecting at a speed 100,000 times faster than the current benchmark for the first time.
This was shared by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology's Network Research Institute, which stated on May 30 that it had successfully achieved the world's first Internet transmission speed of 1.02 petabit per second in a multicore fiber (MCF).
The Petabit (abbreviated PB) is the data unit that comes after the Terabit and is equivalent to no less than 1,000 TB or 1,000,000 GB.
For example, with this 1 petabit per second connection power, we could load up to 10 million 8K streaming channels every second, allowing us to provide live internet coverage from anywhere in the world with minimal interruption.
And it is possible that if we move at a pace similar to more than 32 miles per second, we will soon be able to send 127,500 GB of data every second.
Despite sounding like science fiction, it is worth noting that researchers have tested and accomplished this speed of one petabit per second before.
Using this technique, the technology company Intel streamed live coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (held the past summer) to Brazil, Japan, and Intel sites in the United States for 19 days.
"We are way beyond proof of concept," said Intel's global content technology strategist and 8K leader Ravindra "Ravi" Vishal.
However, we are still a long way from being able to deploy this technology in a form that is accessible to consumers, despite the fact that it marks a new milestone and a new aim for the future of the world's greatest communication network.
