Although we still see the first tests of the installation of an Internet line up to 10 GB in our homes, it seems that Japan is not only a few gigabytes ahead of us, but in front of the whole world. And that’s it Japan has just broken a new record for the first time to achieve a connection speed 100,000 times higher than the current standard.

This was announced by the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) Network Research Institute, which announced on 30 May that it had successfully demonstrated The world’s first multicore 1.02 petabit per second internet transmission (MCF). Specifically, Petabit (simply referred to as PB) refers to a data unit after Terabit, which corresponds to a total of not less than 1,000 TB or 1,000,000 GB.

For example, with this connection power of 1 petabit per second, we could load up to 10 million 8K streaming channels per second, so live internet coverage is easily accessible from all over the world with virtually no interruption. And it’s because you travel at a speed equivalent to traveling at more than 32 miles per second (O 185,396 kilometers per hour), we could soon start sending 127,500 GB of data per second.

Although it sounds like science fiction, it’s worth noting that It was not the first time researchers had tried to reach this speed one petabit per second. Already during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (last summer), technology giant Intel broadcast 19 days of live events to Brazil, Japan and Intel’s US websites using the technology.

As a global content technology strategist and 8K leader at Intel Ravindra “Ravi” Vehal, he said: «We are far behind proof of the concept«. This means that we are still far from being able to implement this technology in the usual way for users, although it certainly sets a new milestone and a new goal for the future of the world’s largest communications network.