New world record for data speed is 100,000 times faster than 5G

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Researchers in Japan have achieved a world record for data transmission using standard hardware, achieving speeds 100,000 times faster than 5G internet speeds. The Network Research Institute at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology demonstrated the first ever data transmission of 1.02 petabit per second, equivalent to just over 125,000 Gigabytes per second, using optic fibres compatible with conventional cable infrastructure. NICT previously achieved a world record of 1 petabit per second in December 2020 using non-standard equipment, however signal processing meant large-scale deployment of the technology would have been impossible. “Demand for enhanced data transmission capacity has inspired both investigation of new spectral transmission windows and advanced optical fibres exploiting parallelisation in the spatial domain,” NICT researchers noted.