Jealous of other countries having 10Mbps or 100Mbps of Internet speed? Well, now you have something even more to jealous about. We’ve seen many new tech from many researchers demonstrating lightning-speed networks, but most use some rather special purpose hardware — like lasers and such that your average ISP doesn’t have hanging around. However, this new benchmark of 448Gbps is a little more impressive because it was achieved on commercial fiber hardware. A few teams of researchers were the ones shoveling the bits, including the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, the National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), and good ‘ol Ericsson. It’s said to be the world’s first transmission line operating at that speed, and what’s most impressive is that it’ll be tested on further network segments in the coming months ahead of becoming an actual product at some point in the not-too-distant future, though I think you still shouldn’t put your hopes too high.

SOURCE via Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna