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Efosa Udinmwen

Chinese firm's fiber trial hits staggering 51.3 Tb/s over 128 miles without signal regeneration — could this be an end to bandwidth bottlenecks?

An NBN technician working on an NBN distribution box.
  • Air-filled fiber carried 51.3 Tb/s across 206.5 km unaided
  • Researchers push 1.2 Tb/s through each wavelength across record distances
  • AI infrastructure increasingly depends on networks moving data faster everywhere

Chinese fiber manufacturer YOFC says it has completed a hollow-core fiber transmission trial that reached 51.3 Tb/s over 206.5 km without regeneration.

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