We’ve seen many a theoretical demonstration of lightning-quick networks , but most use some rather special purpose hardware — like lasers and such that your average ISP doesn’t have hanging around. However, this new benchmark of 448Gbps is a bit more impressive as it was achieved on commercial fiber hardware. a couple of teams of researchers were those shoveling the bits, including the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, the National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), and good ‘ol Ericsson . It’s said to be the sector’s first transmission line operating at that speed, and what’s most impressive is that it’ll be tested on further network segments inside the coming months before becoming an exact product at some point soon within the not-too-distant future. Not soon enough.
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