British Telecom and French networking equipment company Alcatel-Lucent achieved the fastest ever internet speed of 1.4Tbps in a test on existing fiber network in London.
Imagine 44 high-definition uncompressed movies download in just one second. If that sounds impossible, then think again, because UK's leading British Telecom and French networking equipment company Alcatel-Lucent conducted a test on existing fiber networks in London to achieve mind-blowing speeds of 1.4 terabits per second, which is a million megabits per second.
The test was conducted on a 255 mile link between the BT tower in central London and Ipswich in BT's research campus between October and November of last year. This was made possible by using a new "Flexigrid" infrastructure, creating an "alien super channel" made up of seven 200Gbps channels that push the data from one node to another on a network. By reducing the gaps between the data channels and increasing the density, the data transmission was increased by 42.5 percent compared to the current networks. The 1.4Tbps speed on fiber broadband is the highest achieved till date in a real-world environment.
"BT has a long history of leading innovation in telecommunications, from the earliest days of the electric telegraph to today's global fiber networks," Dr Tim Whitley, BT's MD of research and innovation, said in a statement. "These trials continue that tradition, as we work with Alcatel-Lucent to push the boundaries of fiber technology, allowing us to support the ever increasing bandwidth required by our customers, and deliver new and exciting services which rely on fast, data-hungry applications."
The speed achieved by BT and Alcatel is over 10,000 times faster than the fastest consumer-grade broadband speed offered by Virgin. Though it's a work in progress, the news of superfast internet speeds is taking front seat space in the vast world of web.
