The Internet has just broken a new record, enough to download your games in a few seconds, even the most voluminous ones. It’s a real achievement.
A group of engineers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan has set a new internet speed record. Achieving a pretty insane data transfer speed. Enough to completely revolutionize downloading and data transfer in the future and establish new standards for the future.
A new record for the Internet
The new speed record is 402 Tbit/s (terabits per second) using standard fiber optic cables. This speed is enough to download large games like Baldur’s Gate 3 in less than four milliseconds. As explained PC Gamer. The same goes for future very big games like Black Ops 6.
NICT achieved this feat using 50 km of commercially available fiber optics and state-of-the-art signal amplifiers. The achieved transmission rate of 50.25 TB/s (terabytes per second) represents an increase of around 25% over the previous record set last October. To achieve this, the engineers used a wide range of transmission bands and innovative gain equalizers to achieve a total bandwidth of 37.6 THz.
Optical fibers form the backbone of the global Internet, transmitting digital information via modulated infrared, light and ultraviolet signals. NICT’s impressive performance shows the potential of current technologies when they reach their limits. However, this connection speed is not yet accessible to home users due to prohibitive costs. And then in France, we must not forget that certain areas, even in Île-de-France, do not have access to fiber optics. From there, one can imagine such a speed one day in France…
Even if a 400 Tbps home Internet connection were technically possible, current devices, including high-end gaming PCs, would not be able to take full advantage of it. Ethernet ports on most advanced motherboards are generally limited to 10 Gbps, which is about 400,000 times slower than the speed achieved by NICT.
