Wired Internet speed has been increased 4.5 million times

Engineers from Aston University have achieved a new record for data transfer speed over wired Internet. The university's press service reports this.

By expanding the wavelength used to transmit information, engineers were able to significantly speed up fiber-optic networks, reaching speeds of up to 301 Tbit/s. This is approximately 4.5 million times higher than the average data transfer speed on home Internet networks (69.4 Mbps). For this, engineers have developed special devices (optical amplifiers) that expand the range of wavelengths at which fiber-optic networks can operate.

The authors of the article emphasize that their ideas can be widely applied, since there is no need to replace the cable itself , but only in the modernization of the optical amplifiers used. Thus, it is possible to significantly increase Internet speed by many tens of times without additional costs.