Unit 9 Discussion Increasing Internet Speeds

13166As organizations and individuals rely increasingly on the internet to provide faster and larger amounts of content and more devices are connected, bandwidth becomes a concern. What are the implications of having fiber-optic cable to everyone’s home? How will our society change as internet speeds increase by an order of magnitude or more?

“Engineers in Japan have set a new world record for fastest internet speed — and it’s so fast, you’d be able to download nearly 80,000 movies in just one second.

The new record is 319 terabits per second (Tb/s). That’s double the previous world record for fastest internet speed and about 7.6 million times faster than the average home internet speed in the U.S. (42 megabits per second)” (2021).

Reference

FreeThink. Japan breaks world record for fastest internet speed. (2021). https://www.freethink.com/technology/fastest-internet-speed

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