The following report is by Tom’s Guide:
That’s effectively 402,000,000 Mbps (Megabits per second), which makes the 950 Mbps I get at home from my own ISP (thanks Sonic) look like a rounding error. It’s so fast that you could download all 18+ GB of Elden Ring—and heck, your entire Steam library to boot—in less time than it took to read this sentence.
This is a big deal because it affords us a glimpse of what kind of speeds are possible with our current technology, as the researchers used widely available fiber optic cables to achieve this new record.
They also developed new technologies to do it, including “the world’s first O to U-band transmission system capable of DWDM transmission in a commercially available standard optical fiber achieved with custom designed amplifier technology,” according to a press release.
The work was conducted by an international team led by researchers from the Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo, Japan.
Together they worked out how to better amplify data signals to take full advantage of the transmission capabilities of fiber optic cabling, including “combining 6 doped-fiber amplifier variants with lumped and distributed Raman-amplification to cover all of the low-loss transmission bands of silica fibers” to achieve a record-breaking 37.6 THz (Terahertz) of bandwidth across 50 km of fiber optic cabling.
I can’t tell you what half of those words mean, but I can tell you that there’s no way you’re going to see anything close to these speeds at home in the near future. As wonderful as it would be to download big games like Baldur’s Gate 3 or Call of Duty in under a second, PCGamer points out that even the best gaming PCs simply don’t have the hardware to handle that much data that fast. Even if you could somehow cram all that data through your PC’s Ethernet port, there’s no drive on Earth that could write it that fast.
No, what matters here is that researchers have developed a new transmission system that can push data through fiber optic cables faster than ever before. While it’s all experimental at this point, the findings from this research could play a key role in helping take Internet speeds to the next level.
SEE: Scientists Set New Record For Fastest Data Transmitting Chip At 1,000 Terabytes In A Second
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Even though the hardware the masses have access to do not have the capability to handle such incredible speeds, this latest record is yet another testament confirming that we are indeed in the last days, where technology is advancing so rapidly and everything is happening too fast for us to keep pace.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Thanks for the article brother Jacob.
Not sure that even as a lost man I would have been excited by such speeds… great, even more surveillance and big data collection will be done in the future.
Most companies in the electronics world are obsessed with machine learning (“AI”) and trying to cram more processing into less, while struggling with the fact that we reached the limit of Moore’s law (an observation made by engineer Gordon Moore in the 1960s, where the number of transistors doubles every two years).
I’m glad the Lord Jesus Christ had mercy on a fool like me, because it’s so easy to get beguilled by all the fancy technology (which is one of the reasons I’ve recently been selling off most of the gadgets and computers I’ve accumulated). Technology has a lot of spirituallism attached to it, and although I don’t understand greatly (Ecclesiastes 3:11…), electricity and anything powered by electricity is something we have very careful about.
You’re welcome. Yeah, I don’t think people realize just how ‘spiritual’ this technology stuff is. People get blinded by the cold ‘science’ behind it and neglect the greater underpinnings behind it.