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- Dec 10, 2013
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Those are fireworks - not fibre
optics, but the BT Tower (pictured)
was one end of the new relay
testing 1.4 terabyte/second speeds.
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Scientists in the UK have created
the fastest ever real-world internet
connection, using commercial-
grade fibre optic lines to clock up
speeds of 1.4 terabits per second.
Its believed to be the fastest speed
test of its kind, and would allow
users to hypothetically download
44 high-definition films in a single
second. Downloading the entire
English version of Wikipedia would
take just 0.006s.
A joint research team from French
telecoms company Alcatel-Lucent
and BT created the connection
using an existing 410km-stretch of
fibre optic cable between BT Tower
in London and a BT research
campus in Suffolk.
Using a new protocol named
Flexigrid the researchers were able
to overlay several transmission
channels over the same connection.
The resulting Alien Super Channel
was comprised of seven 200
gigabit per second connections,
increasing transmission efficiency
by 42.5 per cent when compared to
previous efforts.
The researchers' use of existing
hardware is integral, as it will allow
telecoms companies to meet the
UKs ever-increasing demand for
faster internet speeds without
having to replacing existing optical
fibres.
However, despite this record recent
news from South Korea shows that
the UK is still lagging behind other
countries when it comes to mobile
connections.