Since 2011, the record was held by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, near Stuttgart, who managed to gain a maximum throughput of 26 Terabit/s in the laboratory on a single optical fiber, but these are the Danish High-Speed Optical Communications Group coming explode counters, reaching 43 Terabits per second.
This simply corresponds to a rate of 5375 GB per second, allowing for example to download 1000 DVD quality movies in less than a second or 1 hard drive 1 TB in 200 milliseconds. At a time when the FTTH users and FTTLA are already glad to have speeds of 100/200/400/500 Mbit/s and soon 1 Gbit/s with fiber optics for all operators, here are the results under laboratory conditions. As were Alcatel-Lucent ads on theoretical speeds of 10 Gbit/s over a copper pair line early July.
4K, 5G and THD safely
However, with a 43,000 times larger than the optical fiber at 1 Gbit/s throughput, especially considering it enables more serene the advent of THD and even UHD, including cloud and streaming video. Whether for the explosion of mobility needs with 4G, 4G+ and 2020 5G for the all-round growth of connected devices or to the influx of video standard UHD/4K, increased data traffic is a major issue for all.
Moreover, despite the rapid evolution of mobile networks, we must understand that they can only exist based on optical fiber networks that necessarily follows the deployment of the antennas.