Researchers have created hair-raising technology to increase internet speed
Download Red Dead Redemption 2 in less, well under a second: that’s the slightly insane promise that a team of researchers can now deliver, with an impressive new system that accelerates Internet speeds to high speeds.
The average internet speed in the world is 69.14 Mbps and not many internet users are taking advantage of it. So for them and all users for that matter, the productivity achieved by a team of Danish and Swedish researchers is magic or science fiction! They actually managed to get a speed of 1.8 Pbit/s, or a whopping 1,800,000,000 Mbit/s…
1.8 Mbps, comfortable
Knowing that Red Dead Redemption 2, the current largest Steam game, weighs 120 GB, it will download with this technology in 9600 nanoseconds, or… 0.0000096 seconds! This is what makes you dream. Of course, today’s computers are far from supporting such a speed, the hardware limits the capabilities of computers, whether it is with a clear hard disk (about 200MB / s), or even an SSD: the fastest flash drives (NVMe at PCIe 5.0) do not It exceeds 13,000MB/s, which is already extremely fast by current standards.
To achieve this result, the researchers developed an optical chip that separates light streams into more than 8,000 color frequencies. Each color is isolated and used as a medium for data transmission. And the transfer rate could be faster. ” Our calculations show that with a chip made by Chalmers University of Technology and a single laser, we can transmit at up to 100 Pbit/s. explains Asbjorn Arwad Jørgensen, one of the researchers.
Unfortunately, we are not about to benefit from this speed in the near or even distant future: infrastructures must adapt first, and if this solution becomes a standard, it will take a huge number of years!
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