In a groundbreaking new development, researchers at Aston University have achieved internet data transfer speeds 4.5 million times faster than average home broadband. This unprecedented rate is the fastest ever achieved and is achieved by utilizing specific new wavelength bands that have not been used before in fiber optic systems.
As part of an international collaboration, the team used a single standard optical fiber to transmit data at a rate of 301 terabits per second, or 301,000,000 megabits. To put this into perspective, Ofcom’s UK Home Broadband Performance Report published in September 2023 stated that the average broadband speed was just 69.4 Mbit/s.