Engineers in London just smashed the world’s data transmission rate with a speed a fifth faster than the previous record. They hit a rate of 178 terabits a second, beating the previous 172 terabits.

Lead author Dr. Galdino, a lecturer at UCL and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, said: ‘While current state-of-the-art cloud data-center interconnections are capable of transporting up to 35 terabits a second, we are working with new technologies that utilize more efficiently the existing infrastructure, making better use of optical fiber bandwidth and enabling a world record transmission rate of 178 terabits a second.’
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