Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a technology capable of transmitting data at insane speeds. Explanations.
While scientists have found a way to see people through the wall using Wi-Fi waves, Danish and Swedish academics have just developed a technology that could revolutionize the Internet. This team, made up of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and the Technical University of Chalmers (Sweden), has developed a new system for transfer data at speeds never seen before.
To sum up, this system notably includes a photonic chip capable of splitting a beam of light into more than 8,000 different colorseach color being isolated and used as a vector for data transfer.
Mind-blowing speeds of 1.8 petabits per second
This tool, called “frequency comb” by the researchers, reached a staggering speed of 1.8 petabits per second during the first tests. To give you an idea, one petabit is equal to one million gigabits. In other words, scientists have recorded a transfer speed of 1,800,000,000,000 Mbit/s!
Still with a view to putting these figures into perspective, note that the average internet speed in Monaco (which has enjoyed the fastest speeds in the world since the start of 2023) is 262 Mbps. In fact, this only represents 0.0000146% of the speeds reached by the Danish-Swedish team.
As our colleagues from the specialized site NewScientist remind us, bit rates in petabits have already been recorded in the past. The previous record set is 10.66 petabits per second, but it required the use of a large number of particularly bulky equipment.
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A promising system for the future of the internet
However, the system developed by these academics has, on the contrary, the advantage to be compact first of all, but above all scalable. And by that, we mean that it will be possible to miniaturize it in order to eventually integrate it into various high-tech equipment. “Our calculations show that with the single chip made by Chalmers University of Technology and a single laser, we will be able to transmit up to 100 Pbit/s”, assures Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen, one of the main researchers of the project.
Of course, don’t expect to enjoy such speed at home on your PC for several years. It should be remembered that the speed at which you can download data will be always limited by the write speed of your HDD or SSD.
Source : TechRadar
