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When I was a kid, I went to a science camp and one of the instructors showed me a few inches of fiber optic cable. I remember thinking that I could light a lamp from one end, and no matter how I twisted the cable, I could see the light coming out of the other end. At the time, I thought how useful it would be to send Morse code, I was very young. Little has changed since then. Today, the United Kingdom Aston University The researchers sent the data 301 Tbps segment over existing fiber networks.
How fast? This is about 1.2 million times faster than the average US fixed broadband speed of 242.48 megabits (Mbps). Or fast enough to deliver 1,800 4K movies to your home in one second. I thought my recent home fiber internet upgrade to 2 gigabits per second (Gbps) was impressive!
Of course, no one is going to get 301 Tbps in their home office. In the real world, I know A Some people have 10 Gbps connections Multiple homes and data centers with 40 Gbps LANs.
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You or your small business certainly don’t need Tbps rates. It’s a different story if you’re an Internet service provider (ISP), a data center operator, or a large-scale language model (LLM) provider as a service. In these cases, you need every TV show you can get, and then some.
For those with similar jobs, you can go even faster. The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) holds the current world record 22.9 petabits per second, 75 times faster than the Aston University team’s average. What’s important and different here is that you can use the Aston University approach with an existing fiber network.
Aston researchers have achieved such high speeds with their innovative application that has never been used before The electronic range of the infrared spectrum The S-band. No one uses these bands because transmitting over them usually comes with many errors that are useful for network connection.
By using this, the researchers avoided this problem Optical loudspeakers And Optical gain equations Amplify the signal, monitor and adjust each wavelength channel in real-time to ensure a strong network connection. As a result, E-band speeds are possible over your existing fiber network. As Ian Phillips, a professor at Aston University and one of the scientists working on the project, explained, “Before we developed our device, no one had been able to follow E-band channels accurately and in a controllable way.”
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Professor Vladek Vorysiak, who worked on the project, added: “Increasing computing power by making greater use of the available spectrum – not just the usual C-band, but also other bands such as L, S and now E-bands – helps reduce the cost of providing that spectrum.” . Also, new fiber is a “greener solution” than using cables because it increases the utilization of the existing fiber network, increases the data carrying capacity and extends its useful life. And business value.”
What this means for you is that over the next few years, you can significantly speed up your existing fiber networks without increasing your network bill much. I think we can all agree that fast internet that doesn’t come with huge fees is a good thing.
