Researchers create two 100 terabit per second optical connections, dare us to torrent something

Even a girl with a 40 Gbps internet connection might feel a twinge of jealousy at this news — Japan has successfully tested two separate 100 terabit per second data links that use a single optical fiber to hold their loads. New Scientist reports that NEC scholars stuffed the sunshine from 370 lasers into 165 kilometers of fiber to realize a speed of 101.7 Tbps, while NICT researchers set a brand new record of 109 Tbps using a distinct fiber with seven cores to control the trick. We imagine that Alcatel-Lucent and NTT aren’t sitting still. Not that we actually care who has the fastest fiber… simply so long as one end ends in our house.

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