{"id":111725,"date":"2020-08-21T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/engineers-set-new-world-record-internet-speed"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:23:38","slug":"engineers-set-new-world-record-internet-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/engineers-set-new-world-record-internet-speed","title":{"rendered":"Engineers set new world record internet speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-set-new-world-record-internet-speed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s fastest data transmission rate has been achieved by a team of University College London engineers who achieved internet transmission speed a fifth faster than the previous record.<\/p>\n<p>Working with two companies, Xtera and KDDI Research, the research team led by Dr. Lidia Galdino (UCL Electronic &amp; Electrical Engineering), achieved a data transmission rate of 178 terabits a second (178,000,000 megabits a second) \u2013 a speed at which it would be possible to download the entire Netflix library in less than a second.<\/p>\n<p>The record, which is double the capacity of any system currently deployed in the world, was achieved by transmitting data through a much wider range of colors of light, or wavelengths, than is typically used in optical fiber. (Current infrastructure uses a limited spectrum bandwidth of 4.5THz, with 9THz commercial bandwidth systems entering the market, whereas the researchers used a bandwidth of 16.8THz.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s fastest data transmission rate has been achieved by a team of University College London engineers who achieved internet transmission speed a fifth faster than the previous record. Working with two companies, Xtera and KDDI Research, the research team led by Dr. Lidia Galdino (UCL Electronic &amp; Electrical Engineering), achieved a data transmission rate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}