Engineers at the U.K.'s University College London, in collaboration with technology provider Xtera and Japan’s KDDI Research Institute, have achieved the world's fastest data transmission rate of 178 terabits a second. This rate is twice the capacity of any currently deployed system and 20% faster than the previous Japanese record. The new record was achieved by transmitting data through a much wider range of wavelengths than optical fiber typically employs.
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