Researchers in Australia claim they may have successfully achieved the fastest Internet data speed ever, capable of downloading a thousand high-definition movies in less than a second.
A team from the Monash, Swinburne and RMIT universities in Australia said they recorded a data speed of 44.2Tbit/s.
According to the research, the result was the highest amount of data every produced by a single optical chip
They used a new device that replaces around 80 lasers found in some existing telecommunications hardware with a single piece of equipment known as a micro-comb, which was planted into and tested using existing infrastructure, similar to that used by Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN).
According to the research, the result was the highest amount of data every produced by a single optical chip – which are used in modern fibre-optic broadband systems.
David Moss, another leader of the study and a director of the optical sciences centre at Swinburne University, said: “This work represents a world record for bandwidth down a single optical fibre from a single chip source, and represents an enormous breakthrough for part of the network which does the heaviest lifting.
