What is Tbps: Researchers have achieved a fiber-optic data transfer speed of 402 terabits per second (Tbps). This is 16 lakh times faster than the internet speed available on any normal home broadband.
The speed of the broadband installed in your and our homes currently comes in Mbps (megabytes per second) and Gbps (gigabytes per second). We are happy to get faster download and upload speeds by taking a plan of 50-100 Mbps. But researchers have achieved data transfer speeds millions of times faster than this. According to a report, researchers have achieved a fiber-optic data transfer speed of 402 terabits per second (Tbps). This is 16 lakh times faster than the internet speed available on any normal home broadband.
This feat has been achieved by scientists of Aston University in the UK. The special thing is that they achieved this speed by using all the wavelengths band used in the fiber-optic cables available in the market.
The same team of scientists had also made a record in March. Then they got a speed of 301 Tbps by using 4 to 6 wavelengths band. Now the data transfer speed that has been obtained is 25 times faster than before. Scientists say that most fiber-optic broadband connections use only one or two wavelengths band. They used 6 wavelengths band.
According to the report of Live Science, ‘Ian Phillips’, who was part of the research team, says that this discovery can help in increasing the capacity of a single fiber, which will bring high-performance systems to the world. If this technology is adopted, the development of optical cable communication will accelerate and the demand for data services will increase in the future.
The experiment conducted by the researchers has been published by Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). This gives an idea of how fast the internet speed we will get in the future can be. Talking about India, currently 1Gbps fiber speed is being offered in domestic broadband. However, people manage with plans with even lower speeds like 100Mbps and 50Mbps.
