The volume of transferred information on the World Wide Web are growing every year and already measured billions of terabytes. Obviously, at the same time traffic is growing and the need for high-speed data transfer technology, providing the necessary bandwidth.
A new record for digital data transmission rate could researchers at University College London, and Aston University, reported what appeared on the official website of the college. During the experiment, data is transmitted over an optical channel at 1.125 terabits per second - it is 90 thousand times greater than the average speed of Internet access in the United States (12.6 Mbit / s).
Tellingly, the work of scientists directed not to search for fundamentally new methods of communication, and to determine the maximum capacity of the existing and widely distributed solutions. Overcome line 1 Tb / s was possible thanks to the careful selection of encoding methods into optical signals, taking into account the natural limitations of the receiver and transmitter.