With the fastest internet connection in the world, you can download Baldur’s Gate 3 or even the new CoD in a few milliseconds

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Researchers are showing what is possible with fiber optic cables. They are achieving Internet speeds that make even SSDs look downright ancient.

How fast is the connection? Scientists from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan are responsible for the new world record. According to their press release, they achieved 402 terabits per second.

Is there a tariff that brings this into the house? No, the Internet speed in question was achieved with standard fiber optic cables, such as those that might be located underground in front of your front door, but it is still a special feature that has so far only served to further develop technology.

Even China is lagging behind, but they also celebrated an apparently respectable success with Internet for the general population.

Terabit, what exactly is it? Terabit is basically the big brother of the megabit, which you know from advertisements for Internet connections. 1 terabit is equal to 1,000,000 megabits. The fastest that Telekom, among others as the market leader, currently offers in the area is 1,000 megabits per second.

However, this unit should not be confused with the unit of measurement for storage space that we are familiar with, gigabytes. 1000 megabits correspond to 0.125 GB gigabytes. With a top connection in Germany, you would need around eight seconds to download one gigabyte at best.

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How was the speed achieved? The distance covered by the fiber optic cable test was 50 kilometers. The technical details in this case are really for experts, so here they are in a nutshell:

  • According to NICT, all transmission bands (OESCLU) of the low-loss range of standard optical fibers were used for the first time worldwide.
  • Amplification technologies stabilized the signal, enabling a bandwidth of 37.6 THz. That’s more than 100,000 times greater than the new WiFi 7 standard with a maximum of 320 MHz.

    • Baldur’s Gate 3 in a few milliseconds, how does that statement come about? As of mid-July 2024, an installation of Larian’s mega-RPG is around 150 gigabytes in size. Let’s assume that nothing is packed beforehand during the download with the 402 terabit line, but we download the game loosely, then the following applies:

  • Converted via Online-Rechner.net: 402 terabits per second in gigabytes: 50,250
  • 150 gigabytes divided by 50,250 gigabytes per second = Approximately 3 milliseconds

    • But there is a catch, isn’t there? Yes, that is of course very naive. Because even if the data fits through the cable, your computer – no matter how modern – would practically suffocate under the mass of data. Even the fastest SSD connected with PCIe 5.0 can only write at 12,000 megabytes per second.

    A YouTuber with millions of subscribers once started a completely different race – and the race against time is still on. He programmed a certain type of code to start an experiment on and with YouTube. You can find the article about what the goal behind it is and why he firmly believes it will fail here on MeinMMO.

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