{"id":21948,"date":"2016-02-11T05:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/researchers-achieve-fastest-ever-data-transmission-at-blistering-1-125-tbps"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:29:57","slug":"researchers-achieve-fastest-ever-data-transmission-at-blistering-1-125-tbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/researchers-achieve-fastest-ever-data-transmission-at-blistering-1-125-tbps","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Achieve Fastest Ever Data Transmission at Blistering 1.125 Tbps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-achieve-fastest-ever-data-transmission-at-blistering-1-125-tbps.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers has achieved the fastest ever transmission rate for digital information between a single transmitter and receiver, sending data optically at a frankly ridiculous 1.125 terabits per second.<\/p>\n<p>The result, achieved by scientists at University College London, uses a series of signal processing techniques to achieve the speed. But first, the lead researcher, Dr Robert Maher, puts the rate into context<a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-02-fastest.html\" target=\"_blank\"> in a press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For comparison this is almost 50,000 times greater than the average speed of a UK broadband connection of 24 megabits per second\u2026 To give an example, the data rate we have achieved would allow the entire HD <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> series to be downloaded within one second.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/researchers-achieve-fastest-ever-data-transmission-at-b-1758452054?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers has achieved the fastest ever transmission rate for digital information between a single transmitter and receiver, sending data optically at a frankly ridiculous 1.125 terabits per second. The result, achieved by scientists at University College London, uses a series of signal processing techniques to achieve the speed. But first, the lead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51048,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948\/revisions\/51048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}