每秒400T! 中國光纖傳輸逆天突破再度刷新紀錄!

Chinese firm FiberHome has developed a type of optic fiber that can transmit 400 terabytes of data per second, breaking the world record for the amount of data that can be transmitted on optic fibers, the company said.

中國公司烽火通信近日表示，該公司研發出一種每秒可以傳輸400兆兆字節(T)數據的光纖，打破了光纖傳輸數據量的世界紀錄。

Such capacity would allow for simultaneous phone calls by 4.8 billion people and the transmission of 40,000 blue-ray high definition movies (10 gigabytes per movie) in one second, according to the company based in Wuhan, the provincial capital of central China's Hubei province.

這家總部位於中國湖北省首府武漢市的公司表示，這樣的傳輸能力可以讓48億人同時通話，1秒鐘內可傳輸4萬部藍光高清電影，每部電影的數據大小爲10千兆字節。

The transmission of 400 terabytes of data is accomplished on multi-core mono-mode optic fiber, which can be simply understood as breaking down the fiber into multiple paths to enhance transmission capacity, according to technicians.

技術人員稱，完成400T數據的傳輸要基於多芯單模光纖，後者可簡單理解爲在一根光纖中開闢了多條並行道路，從而提升傳輸能力。

Such expansion in transmission capacity is a welcoming development amid growing demand for high speed transmission of data for virtual reality, the Internet of Things, cloud computing and other emerging technologies.

隨着虛擬現實、物聯網、雲計算及其他新興技術對高速傳輸數據的需求不斷增加，此類傳輸能力的提升是一項大受歡迎的研發成果。