Internet connection with download speed of 125 GB per second

German scientists have successfully tested a fiber optic Internet connection with an average speed of up to one terabit per second.

Internet connection using PCS technology allows downloading 125 GB per second. Illustration: Wordpress.

A team of scientists has found a way to download data at an average speed 1,000 times faster than Google Fibre, the fastest service currently available at one gigabit per second, according to Science Alert. The results were presented at the 2016 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) in Düsseldorf, Germany last week.

The new technology, called Probabilistic Constellation Shaping (PCS), was developed by the Technical University of Munich, Nokia Bell Laboratories and tested on Deutsche Telekom's fiber optic network.

PCS works by increasing the efficiency of data transmission in fiber optic networks, reducing network latency. A software developed by the research team ensures that more low-amplitude signals are used than high-amplitude signals. This allows the transmission speed to be adjusted to match the fiber network, making the signal less susceptible to line noise and other noise.

Using PCS high-speed Internet, users can download 125 GB of data in just one second. If many people use the same connection, they can download 25 5 GB movies in a very short time.

PCS technology has been applied to fiber optic networks to transmit data between the cities of Stuttgart, Darmstadt and Nuremberg in Germany. Scientists have created high-speed Internet systems before, but most of them were limited to laboratory scale.

According to VNE