Japanese Researchers Transferred 319 Terabits Per Second, Setting Internet Speed Record
Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have broken the internet speed record with 319 terabits per second.
The speed test was performed in a lab using advanced fiber optic technology. Many fiber optic cables contain one core and a lot of cladding, or covering, to protect the data inside. NICT’s system used an experimental strand of fiber optic cable with four cores housed in a cable roughly the size of a standard fiber optic line.
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