In a major breakthrough for the future of global communications, a team of international researchers led by Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Sumitomo Electric Industries has achieved the world’s fastest long-distance optical data transmission. The team successfully sent data at a rate of 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of 1,808 kilometres, using a specially designed 19-core optical fibre.
To put it into perspective, this distance is roughly equal to the journey from Sapporo to Fukuoka in…

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