Team sets new speed record for industry standard optical fiber

Amazing stuff! Dizzying! The backbone of the Internet! The world is fast becoming a highly interconnected village!

"A team of Japanese, Australian, Dutch, and Italian researchers has set a new speed record for an industry standard optical fiber, achieving 1.7 Petabits over a 67km length of fiber. The fiber, which contains 19 cores that can each carry a signal, meets the global standards for fiber size, ensuring that it can be adopted without massive infrastructure change. And it uses less digital processing, greatly reducing the power required per bit transmitted. ...
All the world's internet traffic is carried through optical fibers which are each 125 microns thick (comparable to the thickness of a human hair). These industry standard fibers link continents, data centers, mobile phone towers, satellite ground stations and our homes and businesses. ..."

Team sets new speed record for industry standard optical fiber An optical fiber about the thickness of a human hair can now carry the equivalent of more than 10 million fast home internet connections running at full capacity.

Randomly Coupled 19-Core Multi-Core Fiber with Standard Cladding Diameter (no public access)