Japan’s Digital Lag: Why Its People Aren’t Actually ‘Living in the Future’
JAPAN, JUL 14 – Japanese researchers achieved 1.02 petabits per second using a 19-core optical fiber, enabling data speeds 16 million times faster than India's average, advancing future high-capacity networks.
- In June 2025, Japanese engineers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology achieved 1.02 petabits per second, transmitting data over 1,909 km.
- Amid surging data use from AI, VR and IoT, including Japan's 2021 record of 319 Tbps, driven by exponential traffic growth.
- Using MIMO processing, researchers untangled combined signals, optical amplification relays maintained signal strength, and a 19-core optical fiber cable was developed.
- The breakthrough could download Wikipedia 10,000 times in one second, transfer over 1,500 80 GB files under a second.
- Researchers envision seamless cloud computing worldwide, with NICT planning to extend the technology across oceans, enabling global data centers to connect as if on a local network.
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