Speaheading a ground-breaking development, China finally have unveiled the 'world's fastest internet' network which, as per media reports, holds the immense capaity of data transmission at an unprecedented speed of 1.2 terabits per second.According to the South China Morning Post, this speed is said to be over ten times faster than most current major internet routes.
It has been reported that the project is a collaboration between Tsinghua University, China Mobile, Huawei Technologies, and Cernet Corporation
All about the fastest internet network
As per media reports, the massive network encompasses an area of 3,000 kilometers which bridges Beijing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou together through an extensive optical fiber cabling system.
The network houses an unprecedented capacity to transmit data at an astonishing 1.2 terabits (1,200 gigabits) per second.
Most of the world's Internet backbone networks operate at just 100 gigabits per second. Even The United States recently completed the transition to its fifth-generation Internet2 at 400 gigabits per second.
The network is reportedly an outcome of China's Future Internet Technology Infrastructure (FITI), a decade-long initiative and the latest iteration of the national China Education and Research Network (Cernet).
In a bid to explain how fast the network really is, Huawei Technologies vice-president Wang Lei explained that it is ''capable of transferring the data equivalent of 150 high-definition films in just one second”.
According to FITI project leader Wu Jianping from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the superfast line was ''not only a successful operation'', but also gives China the ''advanced technology to build an even faster internet''.
