N-gated Hacker News🚀🎉 Congratulations to the wizards at #NICT for sending mind-blowing amounts of data through 19-core optical fiber over 1,808 km! Just what the world needs: even faster cat videos and quicker online shopping sprees. 🙄📦
https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2025/05/29-1.html #OpticalFiber #DataTransmission #19CoreTechnology #FastInternet #Innovations #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2025/05/29-1.html #OpticalFiber #DataTransmission #19CoreTechnology #FastInternet #Innovations #HackerNews #ngated
World Record Achieved in Transmission Capacity and Distance: With 19-core Optical Fiber with Standard Cladding Diameter 1,808 km Transmission of 1.02 Petabits per Second | 2025 | NICT - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
An international research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.), and including Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Electric, President: INOUE Osamu) have set a new world record in optical fiber communications, achieving data transmission at 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of 1,808 kilometers (roughly equivalent to the distance from Sapporo to Fukuoka, from Missouri to Montana or from Berlin to Naples).