Published 11:48 IST, August 24th 2020

London based UCL researchers hit a new world record for fastest data transmission

London based researchers broke the previous record of 172 terabits per second achieved by Japan's National Institute for Communications Technology in April.

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A team of engineers at University College London (UCL) have broken record for developing world's fastest data transmission, with fifth faster speed that can downlo Netflix’s every movie in less than one second. According to reports, UCL team achieved internet speed rate of 178 terabits a second. London based researchers broke previous record of 172 terabits per second achieved by Japan's National Institute for Communications Techlogy in April. Using 16.8 Terahertz (THz) wavelengths inste of usual 9 (THz) which is typically employed for optical fibres infrastructure, team was able to attain mind-blowing desirable results. 

According to reports, method required enhanced amplifier techlogies for carrying digital data through fibre-optic broband faster, except in optical routes, and to generate power on a wider bandwidth with help of Geometric Shaping (GS) constellations. This method cost UCL $20,000. Furr, $589,000 funding went into installing new optical cables. team first experimented by downloing world's first im of a black hole that apparently takes an hour to downlo. MIT observatory stored im on at least on heavy hard drives. However, with achieved internet speed, UCL was able to downlo huge black hole im in less than an hour. 

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Better use of optical fiber bandwidth

A lecturer at UCL and a Royal Acemy of Engineering Research Fellow and Le author Dr. Galdi, said that state-of--art cloud data-center interconnections are capable of transporting up to 35 terabits a second. He ded that team was working with new techlogies that utilizes more efficiently existing infrastructure, making better use of optical fiber bandwidth and enabling a world record transmission rate of 178 terabits a second. Amid pandemic, as work culture is transported to home based environment, researchers at UCL urged need for faster internet speed. As per reports, almost 60 percent increase in traffic online was witnessed over last few months. 

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11:48 IST, August 24th 2020