{"id":165707,"date":"2023-06-13T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/new-optical-fiber-cable-transmits-at-the-speed-of-17-million-internet-connections"},"modified":"2023-06-13T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:23:46","slug":"new-optical-fiber-cable-transmits-at-the-speed-of-17-million-internet-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/new-optical-fiber-cable-transmits-at-the-speed-of-17-million-internet-connections","title":{"rendered":"New optical fiber cable transmits at the speed of 17 million internet connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-optical-fiber-cable-transmits-at-the-speed-of-17-million-internet-connections3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has 19 cores which can each carry a signal and can be adopted without any infrastructure changes.<\/p>\n<p>An international collaboration of researchers has achieved a new speed record after transferring 1.7 petabits of data over 41 miles (67 km) of standard optical fiber cable. That\u2019s the equivalent speed of 17 million broadband internet connections.<\/p>\n<p>Optical fiber cables are a critical component of the modern world of the internet, where they connect data centers, satellite ground stations, mobile phone towers as well as continents to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has 19 cores which can each carry a signal and can be adopted without any infrastructure changes. An international collaboration of researchers has achieved a new speed record after transferring 1.7 petabits of data over 41 miles (67 km) of standard optical fiber cable. That\u2019s the equivalent speed of 17 million broadband internet connections. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165707","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}