The new record of broadband is 2.56 Tb / sec

Experts at the Fraunhofer Telecommunications Institute (Berlin, Germany) and Fujitsu have successfully transmitted data at the aforementioned speed through a 160 km long fiberglass path. The highest previous transmission rate is 1.2 Terabit (Tb) / sec.

The speed of 2.56 Tb / s is equivalent to the ability to download 60 DVDs in a second, or the entire Britannica encyclopedia in less than a minute.

According to the Fraunhofer Institute, although the telecommunications industry seems to be going down in recent years, traffic through these networks has increased by more than 50% per year. " This entails the need to upgrade network capacity and further demonstrate the importance of fiber optic cables in the future. In the current systems, it is only possible to exploit a small fraction of the bandwidth almost indefinitely. of optical fiber, "Fraunhofer said.

In addition to the above speed, Fraunhofer Institute of Telecommunications scientists also achieved two other records: data transmission rate of 1.28 Tb / sec via optical cable of 240 km and 160 Gb / second via a line of 4,000 length. kilometer.