Internet connection with download speeds of 125 GB per second.
German scientists have successfully tested a fiber optic internet connection achieving average speeds of up to one terabit per second.
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| Internet connections using PCS technology allow download speeds of 125 GB per second. (Image source: Wordpress) |
A team of scientists has found a way to download data at an average speed more than 1,000 times faster than Google Fibre, the fastest gigabit-per-second service currently available, according to Science Alert. The results were reported at the 2016 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) held last week in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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 data transmission efficiency in fiber optic networks, helping to reduce network latency. Software developed by the research team ensures that low-amplitude signals are used more than high-amplitude signals. This allows for adjusting the transmission speed to suit the fiber optic network, thereby minimizing signal interference from the line and other noise.
With PCS high-speed internet, users can download 125 GB of data in just one second. If multiple people use the same connection, they can download 25 movies (5 GB each) 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. Previously, scientists had created high-speed internet systems, but most were limited to laboratory-scale operations.
According to VNE
