Japan achieves staggering 402 Tb/s data rate with commercial optical fiber — record-breaking performance tapped into unused wavelength bands
With collaboration between three research institutes, researchers found a way to utilize current fiber optic and internet infrastructure to achieve up to 402 Tb/s data rate by simply switching to new bandwidth leveraging widely used amplifiers.
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