Internet speeds 1.2 million times faster than the US average are possible using the current fibre optic cable network. How does 301,000,000 Mbps sound?

Underneath my road lies a cable on which, like many, my whole digital world relies. Fibre optic cables have become increasingly standard for modern high-speed internet connections, but even these super-highways of speed are limited in their capacity. Thanks to the work of some British researchers, however, those very same cables may be able to provide connection speeds that are massively faster than those we currently rely on.

Currently, fibre cables utilise what are referred to as"C" and"L" bands in the electromagnetic spectrum. The new optical processor, however, makes use of the previously untapped"E" and"S" bands to take advantage of huge amounts of previously unused capacity.

Anything that prevents more digging up of my street is fine by me, particularly if it means connection speeds that dwarf the figures I currently receive. In a world where fast data-streaming is less a luxury and more a necessity for many of us in day-to-day life, huge levels of increased speed without major disruption strikes as an innovation worth shouting about.

Now working as a hardware writer for PC Gamer, Andy can be found quietly muttering to himself and drawing diagrams with his hands in thin air. It's best to leave him to it.

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