What if you can download the entire library of Netflix under a second? What about every page of the English language on Wikipedia (including all revisions) five times?
It is a dream that scientists from Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communication Technology have created a reality, which has achieved a global record in data transmission speed of 1.02 pitches per second at a distance of 1,123 miles – almost the distance between MI Miami and Cleveland.
In this context, we will usually measure the Internet speed in megabits per second (MBPS). One pitcher is equivalent to a billion megabits, which means that the speed obtained by NICT researchers will measure 1,020,000,000 Mbps – which is still 3.5 million times faster than the average internet speed in the United States.
Why would you need to transfer data faster? It seems like a record of bending 444 gaming consoles on a new TV, but there are legitimate implications of the real world at the pace of progress.
The NICT report states, “The result is an important step in expanding, the development of high -capacity networks and the growing demand of the world of data.”
The reason for this is that researchers used fiber optic cables that are compatible with infrastructure that already exists. The test for the test, he used 19 core optical fiber with a standard cluding diameter of 0.125 mm-the thickness that is currently used in networks around the world.
This 19 core optical fiber is able to use 19 different light paths to transmit data in the same location that is usually taken by one. Without the full monitoring of the 870,000 miles away from 870,000 miles running the Internet, you can achieve such a widespread increase in capacity.
We may need to increase the speed quickly. A leading rule in the world of networking in the name of Nelson’s law states that a high-end Internet user contact speed increases about 50 % every year, which doubles every 21 months-a observation that has been true since 1983. I would say that a high -end Internet user has a gig speed right now. In a decade, it is not difficult to imagine to be in 10 seconds per second. We will need a lot of records to maintain such a growing demand, we will need a lot of records to break.
