{"id":25612,"date":"2025-07-27T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25612\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:04:13","slug":"japan-just-broke-the-internet-speed-record-how-fast-is-it-you-could-download-all-of-netflix-in-under-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25612\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Just Broke the Internet Speed Record. How Fast Is It? You Could Download all of Netflix in Under a Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if you could download Netflix\u2019s entire library<\/a> in under a second? How about every English language page on Wikipedia<\/a> (including all revisions) five times over?\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the dream scientists at Japan\u2019s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology have made a reality, achieving a world record<\/a> in data transmission speed of 1.02 Petabits per second over 1,123 miles — roughly the distance between Miami<\/a> and Cleveland<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To put that in perspective, we usually measure internet speed<\/a> in Megabits per second (Mbps)<\/a>. A Petabit is equal to a billion Megabits, which means the speed achieved by the NICT researchers would measure out to 1,020,000,000Mbps — more than 3.5 million times faster than the average internet speed<\/a> in the US right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why would you need to transmit data that quickly? It might seem like a novelty record akin to hooking up 444 gaming consoles to one TV<\/a>, but the breakthrough speeds have legitimate real-world implications.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result represents a major step forward in developing scalable, high-capacity networks and addressing the world\u2019s growing demand for data,\u201d the NICT report states.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the researchers used fiber-optic cables<\/a> compatible with existing infrastructure. For the test, they used a 19-core optical fiber with a standard cladding diameter of 0.125mm — the same thickness currently used in networks worldwide.<\/p>\n

\"data-transmission-world-record-table\" National Institute of Information and Communications Technology<\/p>\n

This 19-core optical fiber can use 19 different light paths to transmit data in the same space usually taken up by one. That\u2019s how you can get such a massive increase in capacity without entirely overhauling the 870,000 miles of undersea cables<\/a> that run the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We may need that increase in speed sooner than we think, too. A well-known rule in the networking world called Nielsen\u2019s law<\/a> states that a high-end internet user\u2019s connection speed grows by roughly 50% each year, doubling every 21 months — an observation that has held true since 1983. I\u2019d say a high-end internet user has one-gig speeds right now; in a decade, it\u2019s not hard to imagine that being 10Gbps. To keep up with growing demand like that, we\u2019ll need a lot more records to be broken.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What if you could download Netflix\u2019s entire library in under a second? How about every English language page…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-25612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}