{"id":148856,"date":"2022-10-25T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-single-laser-transmitted-a-seconds-worth-of-internet-traffic-in-record-time"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:26:15","slug":"a-single-laser-transmitted-a-seconds-worth-of-internet-traffic-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-single-laser-transmitted-a-seconds-worth-of-internet-traffic-in-record-time","title":{"rendered":"A Single Laser Transmitted a Second\u2019s Worth of Internet Traffic in Record Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-single-laser-transmitted-a-seconds-worth-of-internet-traffic-in-record-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists continue to blow through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-just-set-a-new-record-for-data-transmission-speed\">data transmission records<\/a>, with the fastest transmission of information between a laser and a single optical chip system now set at 1.8 petabits per second. That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetlivestats.com\/one-second\/#traffic-band\">well in excess<\/a> of the amount of traffic passing across the entire internet each second.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another comparison: the average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allconnect.com\/blog\/us-internet-speeds-globally\">broadband download speed<\/a> in the US is 167 megabits per second. You need 1,000 megabits to get to a gigabit, and then 1 million gigabits to get up to 1 petabit.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how you present it, 1.8 petabits is a serious amount of data to transmit in a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists continue to blow through data transmission records, with the fastest transmission of information between a laser and a single optical chip system now set at 1.8 petabits per second. That\u2019s well in excess of the amount of traffic passing across the entire internet each second. Here\u2019s another comparison: the average broadband download speed in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148856","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}