In a major breakthrough for the future of class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/market/market-stats/stocks-global-education-share-price-nse-bse-s0004765″ data-vars-anchor-text=”global” data-vars-link-type=”Auto” data-vars-page-type=”story”>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…
