{"id":148918,"date":"2022-10-26T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-managed-to-transmit-as-much-data-as-the-entire-internets-bandwidth"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T19:24:21","slug":"scientists-managed-to-transmit-as-much-data-as-the-entire-internets-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-managed-to-transmit-as-much-data-as-the-entire-internets-bandwidth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Managed to Transmit as Much Data as the Entire Internet\u2019s Bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-managed-to-transmit-as-much-data-as-the-entire-internets-bandwidth3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world wide web is not enough, because scientists have managed to transmit data at a staggering 1.84 petabits per second \u2014 nearly twice the amount of global internet traffic in the same interval.<\/p>\n<p>That blows the <a href=\"https:\/\/optics.org\/news\/13\/6\/4\" class=\"\">previous record<\/a> for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip of one petabit per second out the water. And to put that ridiculous amount into perspective, a petabit is equal to one million gigabits. A single gigabit, or 1,000 megabits, is about the fastest download speed money can buy for most households.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve the astonishing feat, researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Chalmers University of Technology used a custom optical chip that can make use of a single infrared light by splitting it into hundreds of different frequencies that are evenly spaced apart. Collectively, they\u2019re known as a frequency comb. Each frequency on the comb can discretely hold data by modulating the wave properties of light, allowing scientists to transmit far more bits than conventional methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world wide web is not enough, because scientists have managed to transmit data at a staggering 1.84 petabits per second \u2014 nearly twice the amount of global internet traffic in the same interval. That blows the previous record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip of one petabit per second [\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-148918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148918","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=148918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}