China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second::China is claiming that they now have the world’s fastest internet. Their new network transmits 1.2 terabits per second. That’s over 1200 gigabits, per second. At this speed, the network will be able to send 150 4K movies in less than a second. Furthermore, it can send all of Netflix’s global content
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More like you could download the entire Netflix library if you could ping it
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The storage capacity this needs…
I wanna see that infrastructure! I need to see it in person!
China is claiming…
Aaaand I no longer have any confidence in the validity of this claim.
1.2 terabits is actually a doable amount
In People’s Republic of China, claim makes you
Edit: or…claim gets paid for you!
When I see these pro-China pieces, I remember that Chinese citizens can’t speak freely, exercise political will, or breathe clean air. As well as China’s actions towards the annexation/militarization of surrounding waters, erasure of Tibetan and Uyghuar cultures, and propagation of destabilizing online propaganda.
Chinese citizens can breathe clean air. Japan is only a 4 hour flight away
I was gonna say isn’t China a big ol landmass of a country with diverse climates like most big countries? I recently saw a photo I could have sworn was taken in the bahamas or some other stereotypical tropical paradise but no apparently southern China has some cool beaches lol
Actually, yes, the air quality is good in places away from heavy industry. Hainan has some good surfing spots, it’s usually what people think when they think about China beach spots. That said, it’s as expensive as California because it’s one of the few great beach places that Chinese people without a passport can go to (other benefits being everyone speaks Chinese, the food is familiar, etc.). Thailand is a much better value for money, for example
Internet implies that multiple separate networks can all use this link at 1.2 tbps. This is not the case.
This is moat likely a core/main/back bone switch that feeds many smaller switches. Its not outside the norm, we’re seeing 400gb and 800gb switches that are easily able to push that much bandwidth out a single port. 1.2tb or 1.6tb switches are the next logical step. You’ll only find these switches in massive datacenters or for server clusters like for AI or high performance computing
My campus is working on upgrading our redunant 100gb ISP connections to 400gb next summer, so not necessarily just for HPC/AI/‘massive datacenter’.
Granted,
A) our 100gb edge routers are reaching end of life
B) a LOT of grant proposals will be able to put down “400gb uplink on our campus”, which helps land research money
C) The new routers will probably run for 5-6 years before we start scheduling an upgrade, so its considered money well spent on future proofing.
Our actual bandwidth utilization normally peaks at like 22gbps (every now and then we do see it get closer to 75gbps, but that’s perfsonar running tests to/from other institutions).
it’s probably just an internal link
Internet in China is basically a giant intranet.
So, internal Internet?
Isn’t that just called intranet?
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no more like a link between 2 nodes that belong to the same AS
Now I want a fiber optic keyboard cleaning brush
Plug that shit into my veins
But I guess no externally routable Internet address?
What a horribly written article. I think I read the same thing 4 or 5 times. Just padding I guess to fill the available bandwidth?
Lol thanks for the heads up
China’s economy is set up for these headlines, government bodies are spending hard on infrastructure and sometimes it’s good (roads, bridges, dams, most of them have a long term value to a region) and sometimes it’s overbuilt, like the small/medium city with two airports.
They want the implication to be “China has the best internet, thus China is the best place to go for my internet company” or something like that. But they are intentionally overbuilding for a future state that may never come, just like the small/medium city with two airports.
It’s great to invest in infrastructure, but other things count too, and there are diminishing returns at some level of development.
Great, now websites will get even more bloated.
