China built the world’s fastest Internet network

Huawei Technologies and China Mobile have established a 3,000-kilometer Internet network connecting Beijing to the south, touted as the country’s latest technological breakthrough.

The two companies collaborated with Tsinghua University and research provider Cernet.com to establish the world’s first Internet network with a bandwidth of 1.2 terabits per second. In the university statement it was indicated that the tests began on July 31 and since then he has been subjected to various tests.

150 MOVIES PER SECOND

At this speed, a network can send 150 4K movies in less than a second. The network “works based on key technologies that China has domestically,” the Xinhua news agency said in a report on Tsinghua’s website.

Tsinghua bases the project entirely on domestic technology, a first in the industry, and gives an important place to Huawei in its statement. The Chinese company caused a stir when it launched its 5G smartphone with a sophisticated processor produced in China in August.

In February, Nokia, Huawei’s global rival, announced that it had achieved 1.2 terabits per second over a distance of about 118 km on an optical network in Europe. Currently, networks in most countries operate at 100 gigabits per second. The United States, by contrast, increased its network to 400 gigabits per second with Internet2.