The first commercial 5G network was made available in early 2019 in South Korea. A year later, it also appeared in Poland, but still did not make it on time. However, the first companies and countries that are already testing 6G technology appeared quickly. The latest achievement of Chinese specialists shows what breakthrough awaits us in a few years.
China has reached 100Gbps speed on 6G network
As reported by researchers from one of the institutes of the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, they managed to test the operation of 6G, which is to become the next generation of mobile networks after 5G. The Chinese are testing a new technology based on terahertz frequencies and – as the website writes – they are thus able to obtain a theoretical throughput at the level of absurd 300 Gb / s.
Of course, even approaching such a result is a distant matter (or even impossible to obtain in practice), but the results of the latest tests of the aforementioned institute are still impressive. During the experiment, a record data transfer speed of 100 Gbps was achieved. This is a trifle 12.5 GB of data downloaded every second. To show the scale, it is worth adding that currently in Poland, using the 5G network, we can download files with speeds up to approx. 600 Mb / s. Today, even fiber-based networks achieve download speeds of 1 Gbps on a single device.
Scientists from China have thus shown that the 6G technology will be able to compete with fiber optics in the future, probably offering similar bandwidth in a few years. We will have to wait at least until 2030 for the introduction (not to mention the spread) of the first commercial 6G networks.
Source: Gazeta
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