Japan sets new internet speed record at over 400 Tbps -.

Although Internet speeds around the world are getting faster and faster, many places still rely on speeds so low that downloading a game or a meaty update for Call of Duty, for example, which often spans dozens of GBs, can take hours and hours. There is a future where this will be no problem at all, as Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has just set a new Internet speed record that will blow your socks off.

The organization managed to crack a speed of 402 Tbps, which is equivalent to 4,02,000,000 Mbps, and for those wondering, The Business Standard did the math and figured out that a connection at this speed can download Elden Ring in less than a millisecond….

The speed was achieved even with fairly conventional methods, as fiber optic cables were used over a distance of 50 kilometers to transmit 37.6 THz or bandwidth. This essentially means that when the broader global infrastructure catches up, there is nothing stopping ordinary people from accessing speeds as high as this. The main catch is that it used a brand new transmission system known as 0 to U-band, which is capable of multiplexing with a dense wavelength distribution to provide higher speeds.

Here’s to the optimistic hope that a global rollout will happen sooner rather than later!